Rare Bits » doc martens http://www.rarebitscomics.com Like A Comics Hive Mind. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:53:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Brit Boots: A Retrospective of Shoes http://www.rarebitscomics.com/2010/03/britboots/ http://www.rarebitscomics.com/2010/03/britboots/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:19:47 +0000 Mermaid http://www.rarebitscomics.com/?p=527 Oh my, it was a cold and windy day (alright, bright and sunny) in Texas when my mom purchased these for me. We had just finished our 15th move around the country, most recently from Las Vegas, NV. Life was pretty friendless for a chubby bookworm traveling every weekend with a softball team. All the seats in my middle school cafeteria were taken. Not a SINGLE table was empty for me to sit by myself. The girls I sat with would switch from English to Mandarin (only one did so maliciously) so I couldn’t even attempt to engage in conversation. Thinking some new clothes would cheer me up, my mom took me shopping. OF COURSE, I wanted the most expensive shoes currently in style (again), Doc Martens.

Teal shoelaces added when I used the others to lace up a corset!

I settled on the British Beauties for their colorful collage of sketches of popular English tourist spots. British guards, double-decker buses and the Union Jack. Little did I know what an impact the police call box would have on me later in life. Years later, I apologized to my mom for buying me such expensive shoes. I had plenty of others and did not need a pair pricing in the trip-dig. But since I still wear said boots, my mom claims they were the best bipedal investment we had ever made! While I can attest to these not making those middle-school lunches any more enjoyable; I knew that when I looked at my feet, I’d smile.

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