My Favourite Pair Of Shoes

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When most of the people want to buy shoes they usually enter a shop, find a pair they like and, if the price is acceptable for them, buy it. But there is also another group for whom buying shoes is worse than a visit to hell. Unfortunately, I belong to the second one.
For me it is almost impossible to find the pair I would visually like and that, at the same time, would be comfortable. I would usually wander through the shops for days and find nothing that would satisfy me. Very often I would loose hope and buy anything that at least seems fitting and then solemnly regret it. I thought it would be the same with this pair but I could not have been more wrong.
When I first saw them on a shelf I did not pay much attention to them. There was nothing eye catching in them, just a plain pair of black sandals. At first I did not want even to try them on. Eventually, having checked all the pairs in the shop, I asked the shop assistant to show them to me. I was really surprised when I took the shoe into my hand. The pair that looked terribly heavy on the shelf was in fact very light. My surprise was even greater when I put these shoes on. Naturally, after all my bad experience with footwear, I expected all the worse. I was extremely astonished when I discovered that the two leather belts crossing each other at the instep, which I suspected of being tight and pressing the foot, were very comfortable. When I walked around, although their construction seemed very fragile as it consisted only of three stripes, two at the instep and one around the ankle, they kept firmly at foot. Their red lining looked very extravagant but it perfectly underlined their sports character. To be honest, thanks to their simple but elegant flat heeled design they looked as good with shorts or jeans as with nice summer dress.
When I decided to buy them I still was not sure whether I was right, though there was nothing I could hang my doubt upon. Fortunately, all my ...