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And then there were four.
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.
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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What's the significance of the brand? Are they the only people who make green shoes, or the most comfortable make, or what?
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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).
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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).
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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?
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(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.)
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...that is ridiculously cheap. wait, do you mean
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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. :)
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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.)
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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'?
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*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.
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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.)
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