This week in Fashion – Purple Boots

Many years ago… many, many years ago I came upon a pair of purple boots. They were a soft leather fitted low/mid calf boot with chunkier heels – ON SALE at an Aldo outlet… they called to me with a siren song.

I didn’t buy them when I first saw them, instead I went home and told my boyfriend about how I’d seen these boots that I was lusting after and like any reasoned man he responded “but they’re PURPLE boots!” Yes I know he was speaking to my reasonable side, he knew I had no money, he was acting in a sane and rational manner – too bad it was the exact wrong thing I needed. I actually went back a month later after all that lusting and true to outlet form the boots were gone… and then a few months later so too went the boyfriend.

I have thought about those boots for years. I have tried to find something that would fill the gap left where those purple boots would be… and over the years I’ve purchased; green boots, raspberry boots, red boots and I even tried with a pair of pointy toed purple boots I found on a boxing day sale. Indeed none of them filled the gap left – I was torn between logic and desire (like I'm the only one with this kind of struggle!?!?) to find purple boots. I keep going back to the phrase “but they’re PURPLE boots!” - and of course a statement like that implies a certain level of insanity to even consider buying something so impractical…

So here’s my toast to impractical footwear, may boys who don’t understand be banished forever from my life.