143. The Basics: Flats

I don't have all the details yet, but there's been some serious deal-making going on in the world of women's shoes.  As best as I can tell, at some point in the last 2-3 years a meeting was held.  A bunch of women got together with American shoemakers and they all agreed that women under 40 would wear boots, and only boots, from fall thru spring for the foreseeable future.

I'll skip the part about me not being invited to the meeting.  That's beside the point.  The point is, WTF?  I was in DSW the other day looking for a pair of jazzy black flats, and what I found was 4 entire rows (which I'm estimating were roughly 120 pairs) of black and brown, leather and vinyl, ankle, calf, and knee-length women's boots.  Who needs that many effing boots?!

Can I get some oxfords?  Or maybe a pointy-toe leather flat?  Anything that's not a ballet flat or a boot?  (Sad face.)  Not all of us are rocking the skinny jeans and boots look.  Some of us still wanna wear our regular pants.  And we'd like to have shoes to go with them.  Cute, comfortable (enough), affordable fall shoes to wear with our extensive collections of unskinny jeans and fabulous wool trousers, which by the way do not go with leather boots. 

Boooooo to you all.