Footwear | Table for Five

How to Embarrass Your Kids in Three Easy Steps

April 16, 2009 By Elizabeth

Step One: While getting ready to go to Target, decide that since it's a warm, sunny day, you'll wear slip-on shoes with no socks. NEW slip-on shoes. Step Two: Realize after twenty minutes of walking around at Target that the backs of the slip-on shoes are sliding up and down against your bare heels and raising painful blisters on both of them. Decide to shuffle over to the shoe department and buy the first pair of comfortable shoes you can find. Step Three: Find the PERFECT pair of Champion slides, with footbeds filled with some kind of gel and covered with satiny fabric, so that each step you take feels like having pillows strapped to your feet. Take off the evil slip-on blistermakers and put on the slides. Which are attached to each other with a piece of white elastic string. Which you can't take off because you don't have scissors in your purse. Step Three Continued: So you have to WALK THROUGH THE STORE with your shoes ATTACHED. Because there is no way you are putting the … [Read more...]

Rainbow Sandals-your feet will thank you!

March 2, 2007 By Elizabeth

Image via Wikipedia One thing I learned at last year's Blogher conference was that I should have packed less toiletries and more comfortable shoes. If you are planning to go for the first time this year, please let me offer you some advice-buy yourself some REALLY comfortable sandals! You are going to be doing a lot of walking and standing, from early in the morning until late at night, and if your footwear isn't comfortable, your feet are going to suffer. There are lots of options available, and one that you might check out is rainbow sandals. I personally like the looks of this one, and I like that they are guaranteed for the life of the sole. I do not recommend doing what I did last year, which was wearing a brand-new pair of braided leather sandals purchased at Kohl's only a few days before I left, which then dug into my swelled-up feet and left me with blisters. Get yourself some well-made, well-fitting sandals, like these Rainbow ones, and break them in before you go. … [Read more...]