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So Miz Mooz finally made a new green ballet flat!

Dinah to the left, Daisy to the right, and Deb on my feet. (The Dorothys are in the other country in a box not actually labeled 'Beloved Nostalgia One Cannot Use' but it kind of ought to be. >.>)

They're a slight wedge, a bright bluish-green, and they lack the Interesting Toe Details I love so much about the older ones, but that mostly means I will feel less bad about wearing them out in the rain, and I will drag long hems slightly less when I do.

I sincerely have no idea why all of these shoes have D names, but it's kind of entertaining.

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Pretty.

What's the significance of the brand? Are they the only people who make green shoes, or the most comfortable make, or what?

Impulse purchase may have been impulsive, although I'd looked at the new arrivals on the brand website the day before. There may have been some squinting at the screen muttering 'is that teal? duck egg? actually green? aaaargh'.

Some of it's brand loyalty, which they reinforce by continuing to produce Interesting Details, neat colours in shiny-but-not-patent leather, a fairly comfortable footbed for my feet, and nicely rounded toes. See, a lot of brands put a relatively pointed toe on their ballet flats (an example), which I really don't care for, and also I tend to start scuffing the bloody hell out of shoes that are pointier than anticipated.

They just haven't done a flat in Green in quite some time. Possibly since '09, but it's hard to say given they don't have a list of previous awesome nicely posted somewhere.

Sooooo I've been squinting hopefully at their spring and fall collections for years, hoping they'd make a Dorothy lookalike (*flaily hands* I gloated about having Green Shoes for over a year after impulse buying a pair whilst on a hunt for new bras. I hadn't realised that was a Thing, but apparently that's a Thing. The leafy cutouts in a bluer contrasting texture just made everything better).

I think I am at risk for developing a green shoe thing. (I do actually have a pair of green shoes! But they are my costume shoes so not exactly everyday wear. Or indeed indoor wear, because they have leather soles).

I really, really like a bright shoe, 'cause it lets me dress in greys and blacks and denim tones but still have colour in my wardrobe (frequently brighter colour than I'd put on my torso, at that). *glee*

Green leather shoes (as opposed to fabric or suede) can be tricky to find, which is frustrating. Especially in flats, which are what I default to wearing 'cause the one hip gets a bit chippy.
I've got a ebay search string saved as a link in my bookmarks labeled 'miz mooz green' (got two of my just-now-become four pair of green shoes that way, the Dinahs and the Daisys)--if you give me a sense of shoe sizes to look for I can pitch links your way as I spot 'em, if you like?

Oh man shoe sizes :( Between the dubiousness about what size I am in UK shoes and the dubiousness about the conversion the possible range spans, like, 3 or 4 sizes. Whiiiich is way too wide to buy online, never mind internationally. :(

Aw, finicky feet. I'm sorry.

(I find EU sizing useful for ballparking, but the two pair of shoes I've bought off ebay were a brand I knew already and in colours I couldn't resist . . . and under £20 with shipping, which didn't hurt. Maybe even under £15, the conversion rate keeps wriggling around.)

I think maybe part of the reason UK sizes have been all over the shop in recent years is that the conversion to EU sizes doesn't quite match up, so you get a UK5 label on what was actually made as an EU38.

...that is ridiculously cheap. wait, do you mean ~~brought~~ bought off US ebay?

That'd make sense. My feet aren't perfectly either an EU 38 or 39, but those are the two sizes I start at for ballparking. Some brands run small, others run big, some are all over the map--it's weirdly like bra shopping. O.o;;

I do! I bought the new ones from a brick-and-mortar for full price, but the two on either side of the new ones in the photo I posted were off US ebay for ~$30 US each. I think it was a bit more for the Daisys, the darker ones, and I was concerned they'd be too big, but I couldn't pass up that depth of colour and level of toe detailing.

Randomly, it's still neat that it's you and ~klgaffney who use the brought construction. :)

Ahh, that explains it. Shoes and clothes are just generally more expensive here as far as I can tell.

It's like some bizarre parallel dialect evolution. (Have we had this conversation before? I have deja-vu). It sort of underscores the ridiculousness of judging people's education level on that sort of thing, because I'm ridiculously well educated! I just can't do this one thing.

(Random dialect thing: it was always amusing when York newcomers didn't get the 'streets are gates' thing, it's a gate cos tha gae't down it... Not sure about the apostrophe there but can't think how else to represent the glottal stop.)

Buying the new ones in Canada cost me ~$135CA and would have cost me $90-oddUS plus shipping if I'd ordered 'em in the States. Shoes and bras I anticipate spending real-people money on, 'cause the alternative is . . yeah. =P

We have had this conversation before. :D I still think it's neat, and you'd crossed out the one, so.

*blinkblink* ... hm. In the sense of 'gae't' = 'walk/gait'?

'To gae' = 'to go' (likewise 'to gan(g)') so, your gait's the way you gae, I suppose...

Ahha. Neat! (if also confusing at first blush.)

As much as my accent will wobble between my various story arcs, it will always revert to true whenever I have to bring up "de ting ah jus' brought."

*grin* maybe the green is a spring lines thing, with miz mooz? It is really unusual to see bright green in shoes that aren't court kicks, though.

:D

The green's totally a spring lines thing for them, which is why for multiple years I'd peeeeer hopefully for their spring photoset, and then collapse, bereft, as once again they did not release a Green in their ballet flat last. And then stalk ebay some more looking for years-past spring line Greens. *facepalm* (in my defense we're talking 'since 2011, 2015 spring is the first time they've done a green flat'. I've been hoping a long time.)