Women and Shoes

When it comes to men and women, as a man, I will never understand the love affair that women have with shoes. At first I thought it was a thing that was strictly endemic to my wife. I’ve lost track of the number of pairs of shoes she has – she buys shoes like I pop M&Ms. Years ago, I read about the queen of shoes, Imelda Marcos, wife of then president of the Philippines, and felt a little bit better about my wife’s shoe fetish.

It was reported that Imelda owned approximately 3,000 pairs of shoes, some which were worn only once or never at all. What is it with women and shoes? I own ten pairs of shoes and three pair of sneakers and a couple of pair of slippers and feel that is too excessive. I know that my wife has at least four times that amount and still will stop and purchase others.

Psychologists have ventured their opinion in that buying shoes is a means for a woman to treat herself when she feels a little depressed. Come to think of it, maybe I should do that instead of drowning my depression into cake and pizza and ice cream. Gee, I could create a new slogan for the shoe industry, “Buy a pair of shoes and lose weight.”

But reading the latest sales figures, the shoe industry is doing very well without my help. Sales in October and November have gone up significantly. Retailers are stumped as to why the increase in sales in women’s shoes. Boot sales at one store were up 40%, and many were having a hard time keeping them in stock.

What is it with women and shoes? Some women get more excited and seem to get more pleasure at the purchase of a new pair of shoes than having sex. Could it be that the increased sales of shoes is being driven by the movie, “In Her Shoes?”

A woman in St. Louis, in town on business, was reveling in her boot purchase and was going on about what shoes do for her. Her husband, sitting in a nearby chair, sat there shaking his head saying, “I don’t get it. I don’t get it. Sorry.”

I’m with you pal, I don’t get it either.