Archive for November 20th, 2008

Summer

I’m running an evening tonight and the theme is The Lazy Hazy Days of Summer, so I thought i’d do a bit of research on summer and came up with some really interesting observations.

First off is that searching google for the word “summer” brings up wikipedia, which gives the definitions of summer. After reading the rather bland wikipedia page, I hopped across to dictionary.com and read about 20 different definitions of what adjectives and nouns relating to the word summer are. I won’t bore you with all the details, but here is an example: Continue reading ‘Summer’

Beach Shoes

ugly shoes

Beach shoes? What the heck is a beach shoe?

These days the whole idea of the beach has become a hectically fashion driven experience.
A few days ago I did a blog mentioning a few cool things to take to the beach….and of course a whole bunch of stuff that I said had no place at the beach.
Well one of those items happened to be Crocs, which are extremely popular…even though they are probably some of the ugliest things I have ever seen for human feet.

Crocs, under the category of beach shoe, are listed as one of the new items making a show at the beach these days….hey I’m not surprised.
Crocs in general have become ultra popular and their leap to beach shoe is not surprising.
Crocs are actually an interesting anomaly amongst the “new” beach shoes for the summer, purely because compared to the other beach shoes they are mega ugly.

Another shoe that I have mentioned before are the gladiator sandals that all the high end fashionistas seem to be clambering for.
Supposedly its cool to wear these sandals from the beach all the way around town and then back home again.
As you can hear I’m not a mega fan of these gladiator sandals either.
Since the last blog I wrote I have to admit I have seen a few girls that really pull the look off well…of course they are tall and skinny which makes it look quite cool…short girls stay away.

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