Last time I took a flight we had to remove out shoes at security. This is not a good time to be wearing shoes with three buckles, or lace ups from toe to thigh. Trying to watch three trays of coats and bags and cameras and belts with metal buckles, metal pendants, while struggling with tripe buckled shoes is not my idea of fun.
I like to travel in shoes with velcro or 'snap and close' fastenings. They detach fast. They fit when your ankles swell in-flight or after a long flight, or going from home country to cold and vice versa.
Pineapples
I was in a branch of Office shoes looking at their sale items. I liked a pair of slip on flat canvas shoes with a pattern of pineapples. The first problem is white shoes will get dirty quickly. The second problem is you have to co-ordinate them with plain colours. I hate mixing one pattern with another. It used to be the sign of a disorganised person. Designers tried to make it a new fashion trend. But you have to be extremely elegant to carry it off.
Like torn jeans, it looks great if everything else is immaculate, freshly washed hair, perfect make up, fancy nails, brand new designer bag, and you have the figure of a model girl. If you have been up all night on an overnight flight, with tousled hair, baggy eyes, three pieces of luggage, one polka dot, one orchids, two patterns on the suitcase tags, pineapples on your shoes, palm trees on your skirt, striped Breton t-shirt, sorry, it looks a mess.
You would be better off all black or all white with just one item in a colour of pattern. So if I travel all black, or all white hm ....
Touch and close shoes:
This year's shoes from Hotter include the Glow design in two co-ordinating colours.
Clarks (currently sale)
Cushion-walk
Easystep
Free-step
Hotter (currently sale online and in store)
Josef Seibel
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.
I like to travel in shoes with velcro or 'snap and close' fastenings. They detach fast. They fit when your ankles swell in-flight or after a long flight, or going from home country to cold and vice versa.
Pineapples
I was in a branch of Office shoes looking at their sale items. I liked a pair of slip on flat canvas shoes with a pattern of pineapples. The first problem is white shoes will get dirty quickly. The second problem is you have to co-ordinate them with plain colours. I hate mixing one pattern with another. It used to be the sign of a disorganised person. Designers tried to make it a new fashion trend. But you have to be extremely elegant to carry it off.
Like torn jeans, it looks great if everything else is immaculate, freshly washed hair, perfect make up, fancy nails, brand new designer bag, and you have the figure of a model girl. If you have been up all night on an overnight flight, with tousled hair, baggy eyes, three pieces of luggage, one polka dot, one orchids, two patterns on the suitcase tags, pineapples on your shoes, palm trees on your skirt, striped Breton t-shirt, sorry, it looks a mess.
You would be better off all black or all white with just one item in a colour of pattern. So if I travel all black, or all white hm ....
Touch and close shoes:
This year's shoes from Hotter include the Glow design in two co-ordinating colours.
Clarks (currently sale)
Cushion-walk
Easystep
Free-step
Hotter (currently sale online and in store)
Josef Seibel
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.
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