Thursday , March 11, 2010
Imaginary Shopping Spree: When Kat Realized Winter Is No Fun And What Came Out Of It
I couldn't get my act together to post my Imaginary Shopping Spree earlier 'cause I'm still in recovery mode from the big massive film shoot I co-produced earlier this month; we finished shooting last week, but it's only now that I've finished up replying to every random Facebook message and non-film related email that I let pile up in January. It was on this aforementioned film shoot, though, that I finally realized the Utter Physical and Existential Pain of Winter. Two consecutive nights of exterior shooting in the freezing cold for hours at a time...yes, I finally got the suckiness of cold upon the human soul. It's no fun! It hurts! It sucks! The only way I got through it (besides tons of tea and coffee and about six layers of tights, leggings and socks) was dreaming about my summer wardrobe. Which is a bit of a laugh, because by the time summer rolls around, I will be unprotected by school and its concomitant benefits as an institution and probably will be dying of some rare disease in the real world, jobless and alone without health insurance. Wah! Why dream?! My face is gonna be eaten off by raccoons when I'm homeless and forced to blog from the public library for only 20 minutes at a time!
Still, as a mental exercise alone, I began dreaming of what my Summer Shoe would be, even as my own feet threatened to fall off from frostbite. Every girl in New York knows that fashion begins with the shoe -- you live and die by them here, as anyone finds out once they realize their train has randomly stopped functioning on the weekend and you need to walk 10-20 blocks for the next open station. (MTA! Muscle and hate!) It sucks to do that when you're wearing those torturously hot S&M gladiator-y shoes that I love, so this season I vow a "NO MORE" to those. Instead I will wear these Hasbeen clogs. Not only are they Spiritually Scandinavian (TM), but I will wear them in a happy yellow color and they'll remind me of my mother and I'll wear them with everything including my gothiest dresses and I'll buy them in kronor because I'll be visiting Gothenburg and boys will be puzzled by them but girls will like them and I'll be healthy and making money and I won't die of a rare disease that only strikes when people don't have health insurance. Whew! Summer! (P.S. I also want this shoulder bag from Hasbeen, also in yellow. Is that nerdy?) (Kat)
Tags: clogs, face being eaten off by raccoons, fear, filmmaking, Gothenburg, krona, post-grad anxiety, spiritually Scandinavian, summer shoes
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Those are pretty!
I have been pondering clogs-for-summer; I haven't worn summer shoes for YEARS because when I wear open-toes shoes, pebbles get in and then I fall down in pain. :[
By Claire on February 9, 2010 12:06 PM
You HAVE to love the cold! It's painful sometimes but it makes your heart work better and it makes you more alive!
By Steph on February 11, 2010 1:15 PM