What better way to get in touch with your inner girly girl than a pair of these beauties? If you're like my age, you probably have a vivid recollection of slipping your feet into these colorful slippers and wanting to get a pair to match every outfit.
OK...Believe it or not, I've never been a real big "shoe person" but I'll have to make an exception from time to time and one of them is the jelly shoe fashion trend of the 80s. I will always remember my first pair of these, way way back when I was in kindergarten I thought I had found Nirvana. These were the coolest EVER! But like potato chips, it was hard to stop at just one.
That first pair (pale pink) led to many more...Pretty soon I had orange, green, red, white, clear...Being made of plastic they were dirt cheap, and you could hose them off if you'd had a pretty adventuresome day tromping through that old Georgia clay that's so prevalent where I live. Sometimes there would always be that inevitable piece of the lacing that would break. Sometimes I would be on the playground and get little pebbles stuck in the pockets of the heels but that didn't stop me from wearing them everywhere. So it paid to have many pairs.
Of course, when wintertime came along, I was sad because I had to put my collection away, knowing they would not be the best kind of cold weather footwear with all their open cutouts.
As you can see I've still got 2 pairs that I've kept that are in big-girl sizes that I still wear occasionally...Since I only have 2 I want to preserve these as long as I can because they are definitely vintage 1985 or something (see below) Wearing plastic on my feet did take some getting used to but like every fashion trend, you get used to it and learn to love it :) And one pair might lead to another.
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