Shoes
A while ago the amazing GKGirl wrote about Docs and did it so well that I could think of nothing else but how much I love my Docs and how I’ve worn them day in day out since I first bought a pair in 1992. I wear ‘em with jeans and linen trousers and ball dresses to the school auction and to the embassy ball (really). They were hard without being rock ‘ard and (I thought) let people know that they shouldn’t be too easily fooled by the sweet face and the slightly worried smile. That if you poke me too hard I bite. And they made it easier for me to be a mother. Because although you’d be hard pressed to find a more practical bit of footwear, they still felt a bit angry, a bit fierce and not entirely nurturing. A bit like I might be driving to soccer practice but there’d be Rage Against the Machine playing on the tape player.
It’s like all my superpowers are concentrated in this footwear. StuntDocs. Don’t wrestle parenting conundrums without ‘em.
heeheehee
i LOVE this
(especially the part
where you call
me amazing)
(teehee…)
seriously though,
i love the photos
and i love how you hit it
so bang-right-on
the head…
we may happen to be moms
but it doesn’t have to change
who we are …
we’re hardcore.
heh.
Are those the original pair? Somewhere in the deep, dank recesses of my basement I have equally vintage Fluevogs. I packed them up when my then-pregnant feet decided to swell to a size usually worn by professional basketball players.
Those shoes are awesome!!! I am so jealous that you kept yours! After years of moving mine are content somewhere on someone’s feet when they found them at a thrift store
Those look like they’d be absolutely lovely to walk in, especially if you had to do some ass-kicking somewhere along the way.
shoes look like my previous timberland shoes…I still keep them in my shoe box…I keep them to remember my past days…cool!