Lions and Tigers and Shoes! Oh My!

I am ashamed to say that I own over forty pairs of shoes (heels, sandals, flats, boots and my personal favorite's FLIP FLOPS)! Yet everyday, unless I absolutely have to put on the dreaded heels, I wear the same old pair of flip flops (or closed toe flats if it's cold, and when I say cold I mean snow).  Otherwise, it's flip flops everyday, all day! And you know what? I'm not the only one; check out the pictures below highlighting the footwear of the ladies in my office.

 Here's one of our female attorneys (I will note that she's already changed out of her suit for the day; hhhmmm...was it because it was uncomfortable?).  This attorney is wearing her "everyday" black sneakers while she holds her heels, which she made a point to tell me she never wears until she is actually in the court room!  

 
An up close picture of the black sneaks; not that bad if you ask me. Wish we could get away with wearing them everyday. 

  Then we have my boss...sporting what you ask?  Flip flops! 

Now don't think that just because my boss wears flip flops, that we work in a super casual office; we don't. It's just that when we women don't have a meeting or someone coming into the office we all slip off those painful blister-makers that designers call shoes and don our flippie's or better yet our slippers. :-)



Here's what you'll find under my desk; my emergency flats (in case someone important shows up at the office), a pair of slippers and two pairs of flip flops (one emergency pair and the pair that I wore today). That's right I was bare foot in my office (again today)! Jealous?

Underneath two of our case managers' desks: slippers and slippers!

In the offices of two attorneys' we also find sneakers! These two women are in court wearing their heels but when they're back in the office, it's comfy sneaks o'clock!

A supervisor's desk; more slippers, 2 pairs of flats, heels and sandals.   Clearly, she is ready for any occasion!

And, just for fun (and clearly to prove my point) a picture of one of our male attorneys; still wearing is shoes, in his dress clothes, even after court with no emergency shoes or slippers under his desk.

To be fair I asked him if he ever felt like taking off his shoes or changing into casual clothes after court; and he said "no my shoes aren't as uncomfortable as yours and my clothes don't bother me."

At Work in a Crooked Dress (and Shoeless)!

Remember the honeymoon dresses I described a few days ago?  Well, I wore one to work today as it's been unseasonably warm here in North Carolina. However, all day, I was tugging, pulling and yanking at the top half of my dress because I felt like I had a twisted towel wrapped around me.  I cannot figure out exactly whether it was my bra that was misshapen or if the dress was sewn crooked.  Either way, it doesn't matter as it was annoying and I felt like I needed a V8 all day!  Aside from the fact that my bra straps wouldn't stay put, I kept running my hands up and down my hips to make sure the seems of my dress were straight.  I really couldn't really tell what was going on; everything was just off, either the bra was slipping or the dress was crooked and for either reason I was groping, pulling and tugging all day.  I felt like a hot mess as they say!

And, yes.  That is me in my office with no shoes on!  Why you ask?  Because I had the audacity to walk more than 3 feet in my (stupid) new sandals and they gave me blisters!  Blisters between my toes no less!  I'm so glad I'm wearing a $50+ dress, a $40 bra and new sandals (can't remember how much they cost), with this as the end result: a crooked, blistered, shoeless mess!  Ugh...I don't even know why I bother sometimes.