The shoes of life

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty" the infamous Imelda Marcos once quipped. When you're the wife of a dictator you probably see it as god's given right to amass the most stupendous shoe collection. After all, who's gonna be stupid enough to disagree with you??

Unsurprisingly I don't share many values with Mrs Marcos. Oppression, corruption, nepotism, totalitarianism. No thanks. She was right on one point though - you can never have too many shoes. Fact. It's impossible. In fact I can't think of any reasonable argument against buying more footwear. Money? Grab yoursen a bargain. Space? Clear out some rubbish you don't actually need but are just keeping because it might come in handy one day. It won't. Already got shoes that don't get worn? There's obviously a reason for that. Give them to charity and buy some that you really like. Don't need any more pairs? Stop wearing the same pairs til they're completely worn out, you could sport a different pair every day of the month. You can never have too many.

Alas these two pairs were delivered yesterday. Asos Premier is a revelation. Thanks @emmamaillard for the shout! 

They were in the sale, of course, and in addition I got 20% off so both pairs came to £14. Bargain grabbed. It turned out be an even bigger bargain as Asos somehow managed to send two identical parcels for the price of one. Very much doubt they're gonna demand the surplus items back which is just typical. If only I'd got that 400 quid Paul Smith coat instead, could've made a fortune on eBay. Honesty is the way forward though, they'll be going back whether Asos wants them or not. 

Always one for (or at least aiming for) practising what I preach, buying shoes is one of my favourite pastimes. Shoe shoes, boots, trainers, sneakers, plimsolls, flip flops, you name it. It's akin to a foot fetish, minus the sexual arousal, and life all the more better for it. I conducted a brief spot of blog research the other day and counted how many pairs I've got: 48 and counting. Hardly any of them bought at full price. Frivolously thrifty. I did a big clear out when I moved house in April but it would appear that I've added a few since then. No such thing as too many. Good footwear as a human right, maybe Imelda was on to something there.

Although one shouldn't trivialise serious matters such as basic human rights, particularly when those rights are violated across the globe on a daily basis, historically and presently. Shame on you Imelda. There's a desperately sad irony that mere days after Malala Yousafzai received her well deserved Nobel peace prize for campaigning for equal rights to education, the Taliban massacre a Pakistani school. On a more positive note, one of the last bastions of inequality, the Church of England, finally has its first female bishop. Holler. Next up: the Vatican. How awesome would it be to have a female pope? Sadly I'm more likely to get to one thousand and sixty shoes, or even three thousand