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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Memo to all office workers enamored of catching public transport in trainers


You look like fucking morons.


I should qualify that I am in no way shape or form against wearing more comfortable shoes for the commute - slip ons or sneakers or flats of some description. I'm sure small mercies are the only thing keeping you from going completely postal as you grind out shitty sameish day after day in recycled office air. You got a few blocks to leg it each day, your footsies get sore in patent leather.

Cool. I get it.

But hi-tech scientifically calibrated cross country running shoes are complete fucking overkill. I have owned running shoes and am firmly of the opinion that they are ridiculously impractical footwear for everything except said sporting activity. Not to mention the fluorescently white plastic/mesh poking out from under a snappy tailored new wool suit looks like dress-yourself day at the special school.

Actually, lets face it. That earlier ramble about trainers being unsuitable footwear was a smokescreen. You could wear concrete heels studded with razorblades for all I care. But for the love of god it is a crime against fashion and general decency to pair weekend activity-wear with button-down week wear. Seriously, it looks nothing short of retarded. I don't like thinking that insurance is brokered and stocks are traded and orders processed and deals made by people who could see themselves in the mirror and find that look acceptable.

So stop it. All of you. There is a whole section of the shoe department dedicated to "casual". Please go and check it out. Or at least start running to work so there is a point to all this shameless eyesore. Honestly, who throws a shoe...

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