Orange Shoes?
Comments(4) A particular conundrum offered itself this week.
Orange Nike Dunks ?
A non verbal feminist resistance to the onset of old age?
Me. [thinks] I will rock these with a Twentyeighttwelve dress I’ve just bought. But are they inappropriate for the 30+?
Now my daily bread comes from posing difficult questions. Sometimes the Qs are in my head so it’s just me answering, but usually those Qs go out to large groups of students or marketingy creative folks. Normally I ask things like “ Discuss the limits of Habermas’s The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere using a case study of a new/ digital technology of your choice”.
As we were flicking through some old mags, my friend also in her 30s recently commented that she liked Alexa Chung’s style . “Hmmm” I said then thinking about Chung’s penchant for a patent loafa and side slung small handbag, ”but she’s a young woman, why be 30 when you’re 20?” You see I’m like the opposite of Alexa Chung. If I buy these sneaks am I one step a way from being the old lady with colbalt blue-hair and crazy leggings? (this statement is not directed at Zandra Rhodes I like her.)
Fans of Glee might say WWMD? But me, well it’s more likey to be ”What would Fiske the famous popular cultural theorist argue?” Bit much for an acronym isn’t it.
The problem I’ve with these shoes is to do with codes. These shoes operate as a symbolic ‘sign’ and my cultural capital allows me to make certain readings and draw on other referents in popular culture. Mainly that I associate with yoot & I am not yoot.
However in these shoes will I be committing a defiant act? Hegemony through footwear? In your face gender/ 30 + clothes nazis (such as Boden) ?
I think this conundrum should be less about age and more about the fact that they’re kind of ugly! However, they do look damn comfy so if I do see you in them I’ll try to understand. Am I giving away my age by leaving this comment???
Travelling Shoe, you surely are a sage in the world of foot wear & I should have come straight to you. I’ve now learnt that these shoes don’t even come in my size. With regards to your age I can only tell by searching your wardrobe for Boden wrap dresses. One per decade gives me a rough age…
I’m with the shoe of all knowledge, I’m not digging them. I’m sure you could rock them Miss. P. but I think they look like something Matt’s basketball team would wear…and only the American ones.
Think you could live in one judging by the size.
Leedsbird if I could live in a shoe it would be made by Pedro Garcia or Russell & Bromley.