Shoes!!!
I need new shoes. Not any shoes. I need a pair of ´Comme il faut´s. Urgently.
My
increasing obsession with these beautiful and, they say, incredibly
comfortable shoes - which I take means mainly that they are very stable
and well balanced, and that´s about as much as you can reasonably ask
of such 3- or 4-inch-heeled beauties - anyway, my increasing obsession
with them happens to coincide with the loosening of my golden sandals´
straps. I could have them fixed, I suppose. I think I will, actually,
because I´m very fond of them (they - and my feet, as a consequence -
looked awesome last night). But even so, it sort of reminded me that
shoes are perishable, and it might not hurt to get another pair? Just
to be on the safe side... And since I´ll be getting a new pair of
dancing shoes, it seems to follow logically that I should get the best
that there is. Not that the ones I have are bad. I´ve already mentioned
the golden strap sandals, and then there is the baby-blue/black pair by
the Argentinian designer Sylvie Geronimi, simply lovely and very
original. But are two pairs sufficient? And the third time´s a charm..
There´s a hitch, however. The closest shop where they sell ´Comme il faut´s
is in Paris. Now, shall I go to Paris for a weekend? Wouldn´t mind
checking out my old favourite milongas.. but when? No time.. Or maybe
just for a day? Take the train in the morning, buy the shoes - if I
find any I like - and come back in the evening? It would be feasible..
But is it not terribly extravagant, going all the way to Paris just to
buy a pair of shoes? - that seems to imply that buying two or three
pairs would be more reasonable - or would it?
Well, I might have to do it - driven by sheer necessity, as it were.