A Mile… Okay not quite a Mile… Around The Block In His Shoes…

In the name of beauty, fashion and a deep seated love of looking good, women wear heels. We were at a wedding last weekend (not just any wedding, Jarrad McVeigh wedded his gorgeous partner Clementine in an exquisite ceremony fit for royalty) and while it was a beautiful day, it took us gals the rest of the week to get over the shoes we wore. My toe, fourth on the right, is still numb! But it wasn’t just the girls, there was Goodesy too (on Groomsman duties) whose feet were bound like a Japanese Geisha’s to fit in to a brand new pair of shiny, black, patent leather wheels. Beauty is pain.

After telling me I looked beautiful (bless), Brett made comment on how he couldn’t understand how I walked in ‘those things’. And as I shuffled ten centimetres at a time, leg slightly bent (think Whoopi Goldberg from Ghost) I thought about the one staple vessel in his shoe diet… football boots!

You know the ones, they’re leather, come in a fantastic range of colours (I have been told by a source that white shoes make you look like you’re running faster), sporting logos galore, they house all those studs on the sole and the players run around in them for up to two and a half hours per game.

Surely footy boots couldn’t be too comfortable!? My husband’s feet are living proof of what footy boots can do to one’s feet (think Lord of The Rings meets Walking with Dinosaurs). Although… this could have a lot to do with him wearing his boots a size too small for nearly twenty years because an old codger who owned the sports store told him he would play better and then this football-boot-wearing-code became gospel.

So I decided to take some of Brett’s footy boots out for a test run to see for myself.

I ran around the block and while I was running on cement and the boots were too big, I was able to confirm that footy boots can officially claim the ‘uncomfortable’ tag along with the beloved stiletto!

Hayley Kirk

Also-Known-As-The-Other-Half

PS whilst discussing this blog with Brett we concluded that both football boots and high heels were designed by podiatrists! However this is only a passing opinion, by no means is it fact…