Shoe Are My Sunshine
The snappiest pair of rain boots I've ever seen, and they were only 75 euros...much cheaper than the last pair of boots I fell for in Paris. Tragically, it seems we aren't meant to be, as I spotted them on my last night in Paris after the stores closed.
The same goes for another method of in-the-rain transportation, soon to be previewed in Paris by Honda -- but not soon enough. Here's the CRZ, another new hybrid from Honda that will supposedly to be on sale in 2008 (hmmm). I find it rather ugly and Trans-Am'y.
Here are a few versions of The Air Car, which should also be The Invisible Car, because it's ugly as fuck. On a positive note, it runs on something we don't have to buy from the assholes blowing our soldiers up in the Middle East.
hybrid via Instapundit
I'm totally with you on the air car. A kilomile range is nice but I do an awful lot of my driver over 35mph. I don't think the air car would do the job. But I'm on the other side with the Honda hybrid. I like the swoopy looks.
BlogDog at February 23, 2008 6:34 AM
I have the Honda Insight hybrid now. Great little car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight
Amy Alkon at February 23, 2008 6:54 AM
The Hondas are both cute cars,and the air car is fugly, baby! I LOVE the boots,are you sure you can't get them over here? I'd buy a pair!
Flynne at February 23, 2008 9:15 AM
Sexy boots, ugly car. Why can't they get shoe designers to design cars? I know they would do a much better job.
COOP at February 23, 2008 9:47 AM
Two words: Wow. Wow.
Amy Alkon at February 23, 2008 10:02 AM
I forget the name...not JonahK, but a cheap Parisian shoestore that doesn't exist over here...might've started with a T.
Amy Alkon at February 23, 2008 10:14 AM
Was probably T.K., 68 rue de Rivoli, 75004, Paris, near the Hotel de Ville.
Amy Alkon at February 23, 2008 10:27 AM
>> because it's ugly as fuck.
Amy, you know what it does to me when you talk like that.... please smack me now.
eric at February 23, 2008 11:04 AM
I actually really like the CRZ. But you also have to keep in mind that concept cars are usually the most flamboyant version possible of the car that actually ends up on the streets. The sale model will probably be a little less insane. The Air Car , however, is a ridiculous sort of ugly that even toning down will never save.
I think that most new cars, hybrids especially, just don't stand up to the looks of the gas-guzzling golden oldies. But I'm a classic car nut.
...But, for gas mileage and maybe even possibly bringing some troops home, I'd be willing to put up with a little ugly.
may at February 23, 2008 11:54 AM
Heh heh...I love talking dirty.
Yoohoo...Donna Barstow...?
Amy Alkon at February 23, 2008 11:54 AM
heh, a chopped and channelled Jag, made over to look like a merc... how amusing... I like this one of the original type:
'51 merc
the rain boots on the other hand are completely impractical, just like similar snow boots that women seem to wear around here. Too narrow, no tread, doubtful water-proof. Better to have something pratical for the weather, and change into the fabulous looking shoe when you get whereever you are going. 2 stories... slipping and falling in such a boot when it is wet from the rain, is likely because of the angle you are walking at, and the forces you put on the shoe. Think about how slick the floor is in a store or office right at the door, when it's wet... The other is in a similar situation in the snow, for the same reasons. You will find a knee length air-cast walking boot from twisting your ankle to be far lees fashionable...
'course, that's a guys way of looking at it. Don't get me wrong, I LIKE the way a high heel looks on a woman... there are just times and places for them...
SwissArmyD at February 23, 2008 12:07 PM
I'll never understand the relationship between women and shoes, though I would concede that a great set of legs is killer hot when matched with the right shoes. I just don't know why women need to have so many pairs. I own a pair of cowboy boots which I ride with, a pair of sneakers, a pair of dress shoes, (rarely worn outside the office) and a pair of flip flops, and that's it. My friend at work would always say she was going to DSW. I finally asked her what the hell DSW was. She looked at me like I was cro-magnon man. It is Designer Shoe Warehouse, evidently heaven to her. She already has about 60 pairs of shoes. Why? I just don't get it. But then, I have three harleys, who am I to judge?
Bikerken at February 23, 2008 5:07 PM
p 195, Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, by Nancy Etcoff:
Amy Alkon at February 23, 2008 5:50 PM
Any guy who complains about his wife buying/wearing too many pairs of high heels needs to have his freakin' head examined.
COOP at February 23, 2008 6:32 PM
The magic of heals is that she can't run away.
Is there any topic I haven't covered here twice?
Crid at February 23, 2008 8:00 PM
"wearing heels is "like putting your ass on a pedestal.""
a vision made into words.
oh, and coop... my ex was imelda, with upwards of 100 pair, which I built custom closet inserts for... many of which were worn once or never. I used to get a nice Christmas cards from the shoe salesman at Nordstrom. She still only wears one or 2 pair of ratty birkenstocks. It's the idea I guess...
SwissArmyD at February 23, 2008 8:07 PM
An hour later this turns up. (See last graph)
Also here's a fun post from a fun blog.
I like these theories. They're like Amy's obsession with waist-to-hip ratios, only not as likely to be wrong.
Crid at February 23, 2008 9:31 PM
Liked the links. Hadley Freeman is great. One of my favorite quotes from her:
"Instead, let's put it this way. Contrary to what men seem to think, women's fashion is not about looking good for men. And maybe because men seem to be particularly struggling to take this point in at the moment, going by the number of "actually, you know, men don't like skinny women" arguments dredged up in regards to the always-fun debate about the size of models (although I have to say, I've yet to meet a model struggling to find a date on a Saturday night), sometimes women's fashion is emphatically not for men, hence the rise of orthopaedic shoes this season."
PurplePen at February 24, 2008 12:05 AM
Smart women dress for men. I certainly do.
Amy Alkon at February 24, 2008 1:33 AM
SwissarmyD: If your wife wears Birkenstocks, (the most unattractive ootwear ever conceived) maybe you should start growing a giant hillbilly beard and wear tiny t-shirts that leave your hairy man-gut exposed. If she cares so little for her appearance, why should you bother with your own?
COOP at February 24, 2008 8:43 AM
I don't favor passive-aggressive behavior as a solution to anything but finding a faster route to divorce, but I do think of Birkenstocks as Don't Fuck Me Pumps, or as Birthcontrolstocks. UGLEEEEEE!
Oh, but does she want to be comfortable? Poor dear. I'm most comfortable when my boyfriend looks at me like he wants to jump me.
Amy Alkon at February 24, 2008 9:05 AM
heh, Coop, and Amy... see the funneh thing is for the last 4 years, I've been a free man. I am so much with the glad that problem is no longer my problem. Didn't have anything to do with the shoes, though.
High heels, flats or barefoot... it ain't the shoes, anyway. Sometimes it's heels, short skirt and a loooong jacket, or it can be a pair of birks and a sundress, or nothing. It isn't those things, it the woman that fills them. It isn't the form that a woman takes, but the mind of the woman that makes that form real.
...so, coop, you're saying I should lose the beard? ;) I know that's a WHOLE 'nother argument, even when it's neatly trimmed like mine and not zztop
SwissArmyD at February 24, 2008 2:51 PM
I like zztop... o_O
Flynne at February 24, 2008 6:19 PM
Wow, thank you for this post. It works like a charm. Im sorry to say that I doubted this at first.
Shamini Warrior at June 1, 2011 6:26 PM
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