Today's fashion statement
Today's fashion statement: sneakers.
Yesterday's terrorist threat to the NYC subways has everyone whipping out their running shoes this morning. Dress shoes for work are not an option, unless you carry them in a bag during the commute. Which, by the way, is another bag for the NYPD to check upon your entry into the system.
"What you got in your bag, ma'am?"
"Shoes, officer. The pair for when I'm not trying to outrun bombs."
People are now taking the threat as a very realistic one, but it's really more of an un-reality now. Who are we kidding? We were probably in more danger yesterday morning before they announced the threat, when your stiletto'ed foot got you around that now-suspicious baby stroller without a second thought. We fall asleep, only to be woken up again. Everyone's now walking around in the comfort of their flat-soled shoes this morning, strutting their stuff, having outwitted the baddies. "Damn, I'm smart. Yesterday, Jimmy Choo. Today, it's 'Hello, Tevas!' "
Given this hysteria, Jimmy and Manolo will be issuing slingbacks that can outrun and outlast any other frightened New Yorker trying to leave the city on foot. There would be a real market for that. Perish the thought, but should something happen, well...look at that Hillary Clinton go!
Shoes do not make you prepared. Flashlights do not make you prepared. Snaps go to the crazy people who lug the gas masks, flashlights, freeze-dried rations, Cipro and all other emergency gear on their backs from home to work and all that in-between. But a) that's why they're crazy, in that Ted Kuczynski kind of way and b) how many people do you know really do that?
Just accept it for what it is - this is our new world order and go on with your lives.
Yesterday's terrorist threat to the NYC subways has everyone whipping out their running shoes this morning. Dress shoes for work are not an option, unless you carry them in a bag during the commute. Which, by the way, is another bag for the NYPD to check upon your entry into the system.
"What you got in your bag, ma'am?"
"Shoes, officer. The pair for when I'm not trying to outrun bombs."
People are now taking the threat as a very realistic one, but it's really more of an un-reality now. Who are we kidding? We were probably in more danger yesterday morning before they announced the threat, when your stiletto'ed foot got you around that now-suspicious baby stroller without a second thought. We fall asleep, only to be woken up again. Everyone's now walking around in the comfort of their flat-soled shoes this morning, strutting their stuff, having outwitted the baddies. "Damn, I'm smart. Yesterday, Jimmy Choo. Today, it's 'Hello, Tevas!' "
Given this hysteria, Jimmy and Manolo will be issuing slingbacks that can outrun and outlast any other frightened New Yorker trying to leave the city on foot. There would be a real market for that. Perish the thought, but should something happen, well...look at that Hillary Clinton go!
Shoes do not make you prepared. Flashlights do not make you prepared. Snaps go to the crazy people who lug the gas masks, flashlights, freeze-dried rations, Cipro and all other emergency gear on their backs from home to work and all that in-between. But a) that's why they're crazy, in that Ted Kuczynski kind of way and b) how many people do you know really do that?
Just accept it for what it is - this is our new world order and go on with your lives.
posted by Currin Girl at 9:38 AM
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