shoes to aspire to

[devi]

One of today's work experience kids is helping out in a shoe shop. He hadn't showed up yet when I arrived, so I wandered around idly examining shoes to pass the time. Every model of shoe had its own name. Some of these were what you'd expect as names for shoes, like 'Beth' and 'Napoli'. But I also found shoes called 'Creepy', 'Qualm' and 'Needy'.

('Qualm' were some little white shoes for kids with pink flowers on them.)

Why?!

Comments

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

It's the shoe shop as a microcosm of the youth of today is what it is. You have jock shoes and you have nerd shoes and you have goth shoes, and then suddenly a couple of cheap plastic trainers go on a rampage pumping round after round of ammunitition into their better-branded compadres. I've seen it happen a dozen times.

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

I guess the same principle didn't do Ikea any harm.

[triskellian]

My wedding shoes are called 'Nirvana'. They're not remotely grungy, though ;-)

[class-worrier.livejournal.com]

We now know what Chris Morris has been doing with his time.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I don't expect shoes to have names.

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

Emotion words are marketing gold.

Shoe names?

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

Eeek! I knew shoe stores could be different in England, but I had no idea. Shoe names? We have brand names for shoes and they have styles, but I don't think I've ever seen anything as strange as you mention in this post.

We have Keds, Highlights, 9 to 5, Bass, and others. . .and then they each have styles - dress, sneakers, boots. . .but I've not heard of names for shoes like that!

Stein Auf!
Bridget