The other day I was walking past a shoe store and spotted THE coolest pair of red patent leather flats.
They had silver buckles and very pointy toes and were, in a word, completely impractical. They were on sale — down to half price — making them even more tempting, and I had to physically prise my eyes away from the shoes and steer myself back towards Coles, where I was actually headed, to do my grocery shopping.
"No," I told myself. "You do not need red pointy buckle shoes. Where will you even wear them?"
I was right, of course. I have nowhere specific to wear them. They fill precisely no gaps in my wardrobe.
But what about the gap in my… heart?
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While a list of shoes you *need* should be practical by nature, with a cost of living crisis and all, we have to leave a little room for whimsy. For fun. So I refuse to make this list boring. I'm not going to be suggesting you buy some brown court shoes and plain white trainers and send you on your way.
Let's be realistic here — we don't just buy shoes because we need them. We buy them because we want them.
