Matching Shoes and Other Mysteries

There is this woman that works right next to the office in which I find myself toiling away most weekdays. This woman is sort of attractive, older (well not older than me, no one is that old) and friendly. Each day, she comes to work in a different color pair of goofy looking shoes. But that's not all, she also has a purse that matches that exact same color and invariably, her blouse matches both of these as does her costume jewelry. Now, I don't know much about much, but this seems a bit excessive to me. New shoes, purse, blouse and jewelry EVERYDAY!!! Not once a week, but every damn day.

Okay I admit it, I do have the rather narrow perspective of a defective male, but it's the only one I have. And since this is my column, it's the one you are stuck with but at least you can blast away in the comments section.

I have three pair of shoes TOTAL!!! The ones I wear to work. The ones I wear on the weekends (when I actually decide to wear shoes on the weekend) and a pair of boots. And you know what? They match everything I own beautifully. No matter what I choose to wear that particular day ... take today, for instance: black polo, blue jeans, black socks and my work shoes - black loafers. Tomorrow's outfit might be close to the same thing, a white polo and blue socks, but I guarantee you, my black loafers will match.

My weekend ensemble usually is something like this: a pair of cut-off jeans and a beer-stained t-shirt. Well, it doesn't start out beer stained, but it invariably ends up that way, so I have now included the stain as part of the wardrobe description. And, when I actually get away from the keyboard and stop whatever writing project on which I am diligently toiling and slaving over to go to the store, I put on the weekend shoes. And, you know what? They match perfectly!!

The only time I wear the boots is when it snows - about three days per year and when I do ... you guessed it! The boots match my outfit amazingly well.

So, again, I ask ... what's up with a hundred pair of matching shoes?