As we walked through the shoe racks he pulled out every pair of not-Ugg boot. Apparently he thinks Uggs are awful, but every boot he pulled out I would never be able to get myself to wear, cold feet or no. At one point I found a cool pair of Ralph Lauren shoes that looked a lot like the traditional Puma style.
Me: "These are cool."
Taylor: "Yeah. They're summer shoes though."
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Summer shoes? Oh yeah. This is my fifth winter in Utah and I still see any pair of close-toed shoe as a "winter" shoe.
This is why: Rainbows.
That's why it's so hard for me to buy "winter shoes". I always want to wear flip flops and cold weather means I need to wear any type of shoe, so my feet are always cold.
These are what I did buy, though:
They're perfect: a little weird, waterproof, fully lined and warm and I want to wear them.
Nothing makes cold weather bearable like having your feet warm! I had so many problems learning to live in Utah during the winter. I remember my first year a lot of people would tell me that I always looked cold. Hello! It was cold out. I used to turn the heater up in the dorms because the utilities were included. I'd wear short shorts and a t shirt. It was like summer inside! I remember Erica getting home with snow on her and look at me like, "What the hell is my roommate doing?" When I went outside, I'd layer a couple jackets, wear some pants, and thermals, and some closed toed shoes. One day someone saw me going snowboarding, and he was surprised that I had a snowboarding jacket. He said, "Why don't you wear that to school so you're warm." Me: "It's for snowboarding... ... ?" Like, didn't he know? I finally got the being warm in cold weather thing last winter in Germany. Only took me a couple years or so... And now I'll be ridiculously warm in southern California this winter... Except at your wedding!
ReplyDeleteI know! We're a little behind, but we did figure it out. Thankfully we'd seen snow before coming to Utah, otherwise we really would have had a tough time.
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