WBaker
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If you give a mouse a cookie or: how I got over the impulse buy and learn to love the hunt
This kids first Margiela side zip was back around 08 or 09 from Aloha Rag. Black calf, covered zip, nice medium thickness soles. I opened the white box and like dominoes 101 new outfits fell into place. I felt like id never need another pair of shoes again, id just find and buy these same black side zips till someone, one by one, zipped me up in my coffin. Ive never once gotten a single compliment, comment, or remark on my black side zips and that's why they're perfect. My gut reaction if someone compliments something i'm wearing is that it's because it was sticking out like a sore thumb and they don't feel comfortable enough to say "your new pinky ring forces me to reassess you".
Everything was simple and satisfyingly naive till I saw this taunting image:
The devil comes in mysterious forms, and for me it was a silly zippy shoe. Ive gone on to pick up four or five more each one purchased under the guise of being the last; yet I still want those pony hairs, far left second row, because just one more will be the answer. Right? Right!?!?!
Not pictured: First tries and sure things that never fit because Margiela likes to punish assumptions with their sizing.
Since were on a roll, this pic (maybe a few before it) was a Pandora's Box of contentedness:
Credit @thatoneguy (I believe)
I thought it would be my new cool super scarf, but then I took a fit pic of it on. So it got thrown on a sofa, but his friends looked pretty naked. (Not included 207 YahooJapan searches later.)
Fan of this thread, happy to take a stab at it
This kids first Margiela side zip was back around 08 or 09 from Aloha Rag. Black calf, covered zip, nice medium thickness soles. I opened the white box and like dominoes 101 new outfits fell into place. I felt like id never need another pair of shoes again, id just find and buy these same black side zips till someone, one by one, zipped me up in my coffin. Ive never once gotten a single compliment, comment, or remark on my black side zips and that's why they're perfect. My gut reaction if someone compliments something i'm wearing is that it's because it was sticking out like a sore thumb and they don't feel comfortable enough to say "your new pinky ring forces me to reassess you".
Everything was simple and satisfyingly naive till I saw this taunting image:
The devil comes in mysterious forms, and for me it was a silly zippy shoe. Ive gone on to pick up four or five more each one purchased under the guise of being the last; yet I still want those pony hairs, far left second row, because just one more will be the answer. Right? Right!?!?!
Not pictured: First tries and sure things that never fit because Margiela likes to punish assumptions with their sizing.
Since were on a roll, this pic (maybe a few before it) was a Pandora's Box of contentedness:
Credit @thatoneguy (I believe)
I thought it would be my new cool super scarf, but then I took a fit pic of it on. So it got thrown on a sofa, but his friends looked pretty naked. (Not included 207 YahooJapan searches later.)
Fan of this thread, happy to take a stab at it
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