In my excitement at finding two pairs of jeans-shoes in my size, I bought both. I was previously lacking when it came to shoes that go with jeans. I am not a big fan of smart shoes with the style of jeans I usually wear, ie verging on the baggy and I feel a bit of a fake if I wear proper trainers, in that I don’t really do trainer-requiring sports.
I usually go for footwear along the Converse lines, not that I have any Converse. I don’t know what you’d call them, a cross between shoes and trainers in terms of smartness, I suppose. My new ones are quite lovely. I now have a pair of silver and white … what do you call them? I suppose they are traditional tennis shoe style, so TTS. I also have a pair of bright pink TTSes. I feel they go well with jeans.
However, my feet are on the larger size, size seven. The jeans I wore when trying them on were quite narrow at the feet, thus my feet look a touch too flippery for my liking. But there’s nothing I can do about my long, wide feet; I shall just embrace the fact I get more shoe for my money.
I fear I am about to veer into Scholl territory here but I wish there were more choices for jeans shoes. That said, thinking about my shoe collection, I actually have quite a few: my new silver TSS, new pink TSS, black with multicoloured laces TSS, big roll-abouty MBT grey trainers, pink floral canvas slip ons, my beloved grey and cream cowgirl boots and a pair of slightly too sensible but incredibly comfortable snug slip on slightly padded suede shoe/slip ons. Quite a selection, and I don’t even consider myself a shoe person. Yet still I don’t feel I have found the ultimate jean shoe.
I am so uncool. I want to be able to wear socks with my jean shoes (summer footwear is a different matter!) but I don’t like seeing socks between jeans and shoes. I think I would prefer not to have laces as these make the shoes a bit too sporty. I like a bit of bounce to my jean shoe and I like colour. And they need to be comfortable. I think I would rather they weren’t leather, though suede or suede effect would be good. canvas is ok but I have perhaps had a few too many wet feet incidents from rain/puddles etc plus they’re not that warm. I am scaring myself here, I am both fussy and hideously sensible. At least I am flexible on the colour element! What else? Yes, slip on is good, though high up the foot (the sock issue!). Basically my aforementioned “comfortable snug slip on padded suede shoe/slip ons” are almost perfect, they just need to be far more exciting than slate grey!
This blog has been enlightening quite often and today I am realising just how sensible I am when it comes to shoes. I heard myself, in my head, coming out with the likes of, “Ooo, they look comfy” as I lunged for today’s TSS! This is all part of the growing up process, learning to love your boring tendencies. So here it is: I love sensible jeans shoes (and shoes in general but this is a bit much for me to fully accept in one go!)
