sundries

[rm]

- Having realized that if I do even 30 minutes of concentrated work a day Patty can come home to a shockingly awesome house in July, I've been in serious dealing with the house mode. Oi.

- Torchwood NY picnic tomorrow. I wasn't going to do anything costume-y, because sweating in a suit and the like really sucks, but they have a pterodactyl kite. Maybe you understand. Maybe I'm insane. marchek is bringing chocolate for the pterodactyl kite. The funny in this fandom way makes up for all the bad!fic.

- I found my pocketwatch.

- Yeah, so still working on the werewolves. And the Jack and Annie story I really wanted to be able to post yesterday (but she has a maiden name now -- so exiciting!)

- Will get to talk to Patty tomorrow during her weekly Internet access.

- Oh, hey, so I write this series of articles on the history of certain shoe styles -- so far I've done the pump, the sneaker, the ballet flat, the gladiator sandal and the platform shoe. And I'm running out of ideas. And I need two more in the short term. What other shoe sorts are there?

- Swamped. But okay.

- Hey, did anyone watch Swingtown last night on, I think, CBS? They're totally marketing it to by trashy and shocking, but I found it really sweet and melancholy and so like the world I watched through doorways in my childhood.

Comments

They have a pterodactyl kite.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

*awed*

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Wing tips, saddle shoes, stiletto heels, wedge platforms, kitten heels, moon boots, riding boots, those shoes that women wore with 8 million little buttons?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Wing tips. Wing tips are winning for this week. *happy sigh*

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Can you do something about spats eventually? Or would that be slightly off topic?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Probably slightly off-topic as it's for a shoe retailer.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes that makes sense. I have a weakness for spats.

[john-h-holliday.livejournal.com]

<3 spats. *beams*
oxfords?

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I wanted spats when I was 16. I got a tail coat and I wanted spats too. I could never find any that weren't very expensive.

[jesse_the_k]

I had to use a special tool called a button hook to fasten these when I was a kid: Mary Janes. Why are they called that? Also, Sorels (I think the generic name is "pack boots," the ones with the inch-thick wool felt liner and then leather/rubber outside).

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Doing a quick survey of footwear object names in our database I can provide the following:

Brogues
Shoe lasts
Loafers
Lotus Shoes
Moccasins
Pattens
Oxfords
Pantofles
Shoe Trees
Shoe Buckles
Sabots
Espadrilles
Mules
Spectators
Clogs
Gaiters
Galoshes
Geta
tabi
Zori
Ice Skates
Jackboots

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I've been dreading the inevitability of writing about espadrilles.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I haven't really explored this website but it might help you out.
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/

The curator is an American woman that I've worked with alot.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Skates! You are Genius!

[miep.livejournal.com]

I am loving swingtown. loving. the 13 year old kids are so dead on. love. also, girl with the hots for her AP teacher -- adorable and fantastically non-pretty pretty. Susan is so sad and beautiful and wide-eyed, and my heart just aches for Janet and Roger and their fear. the last few minutes were awesome.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's really stunning isn't it? Do they know they have a show this good?

[miep.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. they put it on in the summer, so it could be short-lived, but it's so well done, right down to the cans of food. there is a nostalgic element that people are ready for, like they were about the 50s when we were 10 or 12.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It really really threw me back to my childhood in such a complete and total way. Those were the children I wanted to be and the adults when I just didn't know any better.

[melebeth]

I keep expecting to hate it, and it keeps utterly delighting me. I'm waiting for them to start thinking too much and ruin it, but for now... it's really phenomenally good.

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest stilettos, but was beaten to the punch. So, seconded!

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Horseshoes?
Sabot/wooden shoes? Riding boots? Work shoes?
Steel toed boots? Flip-flops? Cleats?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Shoelaces? Shoe horns? Those foot size measuring thingies?

[rm.livejournal.com]

No. It's a column on the evolution of specific styles of shoes for a shoe retailer.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Gotcha! *thinking*

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

One word..
Birkenstocks!

[moem]

Clogs.

[valancy17.livejournal.com]

1. wedges always seem to be coming back.

2. I have a fondness for kitten heels myself. that's probably a kind of pump, though.

3. I adore your icon! y'all look wonderful!

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

they have a pterodactyl kite. Maybe you understand.

*giggle* Indeed!

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

Seconding oxfords. Or combat boot/Doc Marten styles.

Oh, I want to see the pterodactyl kite! :)

[kaifoxx.livejournal.com]

Doc Martens/Combat boots.

:)