Sexy Shoes


When I was in Las Vegas last month, my mom and I went to the mall to buy me some new shoes. We went to a store that sells quality, comfortable shoes. Their image is very practical and certainly not flashy like many of the other apparel stores in the mall. I thought it was the sort of store where you go to buy some sturdy, basic shoes that will keep your feet happy for a while. Then I got home and opened up the catalog they had slipped into my bag. I was confronted by a full-page picture of a lady with sand stuck to her butt. And a guy staring at her (notice that he's not looking at her shoes--I didn't notice them at first either). All the other pictures in the catalog are just as ridiculous. Lean women in tiny sports bras and shorts--oh, and athletic shoes. A girl hiking in a ridiculous looking tube top. A close up of a woman holding flip flops at her waist, so the picture is just flip flops and bikini bottom. I don't know if all the ads come from the shoe companies (like this one) or if they were created by the store. I was impressed by how blatantly sexual the whole catalog was. Buy our shoes and you'll be young, strong, and sexy. Or maybe you'll just end up with a disappearing swim suit and a sandy butt.

Comments

Th. said…
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Why should we have to choose? Can't we have all those things?
5/04/2008 11:11 PM
Vanessa Swenson said…
my luck? sandy butt.
5/04/2008 11:49 PM
M said…
This drives me NUTS! What makes it worse is the fact that some people (like my 18-year-old sister) get swept up in it...
5/05/2008 8:03 AM
Mama said…
Shoot - my bum doesn't look as hot there as I thought it would.

:)

(Don't I wish. But that's the picture for athletic shoes - oh man!)
5/05/2008 11:19 AM
Janssen said…
I hope it's buy one get one free.
5/07/2008 9:50 PM
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