As one woman said to me recently ‘a woman can never have enough shoes’. I hope my husband never reads this article because it might explain that rather large charge on the Visa card back in June.
I was so depressed one day over the attitude of a clerk in the Department of Motor Vehicle here in Hong Kong – I just had to go by the Todd’s shoe store and buy a couple pairs of shoes. I guess it was a fit of depression or a moment of insanity or just call it being female. I had to do it.
I like many of my other female friends have a pertinacity to buy shoes. I have them in all shapes and sometimes I think even sizes. And as a female accomplice in the shoe department said to me the other day – you can NEVER have enough black shoes. Ah a woman of my own hearts (or is that foot fetish).
But here in Hong Kong I am gravely punished unless it’s the Todd’s shoe store in Pacific Place. I have trouble buying shoes. Now unlike some of my friends who despair that a size 10 is unheard of here in Hong Kong, I suffer from the other end. My shoe size is a mere 35 or 5 B. Sure I can find them here but I have a wide foot and that is something that tends not to be catered for here in Hong Kong.
I have to seek high and low. That’s how I found Todd’s and also just down the road in Happy Valley those wonderful stores that do shoes made to order. Aren’t I just the lucky duck. But better than that I always seem to come up with an excuse when I’m travelling that I just ‘need’ another pair of shoes.
So recently in Hawaii, Liberty department store had a sale and I agreed to meet my friend in, where else, the shoe department. As I was waiting my toes were twitching and like a drug user I needed a fix. I happily succumbed to a new pair of backless Black sandals. What a treat, I would never find these practical sandals in Hong Kong. It seems the fashion here, the last three years has been sandals but they are made for small slim feet, and look like stilettos. These shoes are not something you can easily maneuver in or easily walk the pavement in ‘under construction’ Hong Kong.
Ah but I have to say a good shoe sale, or a bit of depression easily over come in any shoe department is good for the sole (excuse the pun) and good for my happier disposition in Hong Kong.
