Greetings, my beautiful darlings!
I have much I want to discuss with you, including my thoughts on charismatic preacher and theologian Rob Bell, who I saw speak last night in Boston. He was the epitome of the embodied religious leader and also seems like a good guy who knows how to iron a shirt.
For now, I’m running around like that proverbial decapitated chicken winding up a few things (I went into the city yesterday to be fingerprinted for my UK visa, which is a horrible little errand if there ever was one) and looking forward to writing a juicy post or two SOON!
But since I know you miss me, let me leave you with this:
WHITE WOMEN CLERGY SHOULD NEVER WEAR WHITE SANDALS.
I don’t mean like this, because these are cute and we all know it.
And I don’t mean like this, either, because these are strappy and pretty.
I mean like this. These would be SO much more acceptable in a brown or a black. White women legs just tend to look Frump City in white thick-strapped sandals, and again… I’m trying to pull the clergy out of Frump City one reverend sister or brother at a time.
AWFUL on white skin. At any age. I can’t think that these would look that good on any shade skin, actually.
And if you were thinking that sticking little heels on your perfidious FLIP FLOPS made them less inappropriate for clergy-wear, you would be dead wrong, dumpling. I saw this ridiculosity on a seminarian at graduation and I reflexively pursed my lips as though having just had a lemon squeezed at my face.
Actually, these aren’t so much a crime against nature as the pair she was wearing, which had a tiny little golf tee-type heel. These aren’t even that bad, but you get the idea.
Boys, you go wear white shoes as much as you want. They’re downright cute on you.
Even if it is OK for guys to wear white shoes, I still wouldn’t wear any of the shoes you have shown as examples. They just don’t seem right for me.
We can all rest peacefully at night secure in this knowledge. [COTD! Snark FTW! – PB]
I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts on Rob Bell–as a UCC universalist, who was raised in the evangelical tradition, he’s intriguing to me on many levels. Haven’t read his new book, though.
Not having been to the UK since the last century I didn’t realize you now need a visa. Heavens to Betsy!
[You don’t. But if you are going to stay for a month as a temporary religious worker, Tier 5, you do. – PB]
OK, how brown does one need to be to wear white sandals? I love white sandals in part because I am very dark. But I’m white – sort of – at least for census bureau statistics.
Hate, hate, hate white shoes of any sort on anyone!
I don’t know how dark you have to be, but I know for myself that white looks darn good with my olive white skin so I’m going with it.
As always, go with what looks great on you. Just THINK TWICE before assuming that white shoes are good because they “go with everything.”
Now you know I’m gonna tell you that half the time sistas and other women of color don’t need to wear them either. 🙂
But of course, I’m not that big a fan of white shoes in any circumstance unless they are Keds or any other athletic shoe.
I find this advice even more useful if instead of understanding “white” in its usual way I take it literally. As in, very very pale white skin. Like the kind I have. If you are “white for the purposes of the census” that seems pretty different to me. But if your skin, like mine, is the color my grandmother charmingly referred to as “catfish-belly white”….then you know you don’t have any business wearing those big white sandals.
White shoes remind me of those giant boat shoes worn by Minnie Mouse…I already have little square Flintstone feet…no need to exacerbate that fact with white sandals that make me feel like a different cartoon character…
Well I’m glad you like the second pair, because they look very similar to the wedge sandals I wore when I got married a few years ago. I wanted something comfortable that I could walk down the aisle in, stand in for hours, and then of course, dance 🙂
Though the more I’ve thought of it in the years since, I could have got some sandals with colour because no one saw them anyways because the dress was to the floor… although I still have them I always think – where in the world would I wear white sandals?
Oh well, they sure were comfy on my wedding day
I’m Scots-Irish. Short of albinos, we’re probably the most melanin-impaired people in the world. If I wear white sandals, a lot of people don’t even notice that I’ve got shoes on…