Busted In My Buster Browns...

FlashBack Friday

Today's flash back takes us all the way back to my early grade school days.  

Just before school started, mom took me to have my feet measured and fit into a STURDY pair of Buster Brown shoes.  I clearly remember their T-strap buckle, perforated dot design on the toe-box, the very shade of navy blue and the fact that I did NOT like them!  Mom thought they were great and we went home with them. Yes, I wore them on the first day of school and for many days, weeks and months thereafter despite my protests/tantrums.

I went so far as to make giant efforts to wear them out prematurely. I rode my bike up the street and then coasted back dragging the toes of those very STURDY shoes across the asphalt.  This got me scuffs and a lesson in shoe polishing but it didn't get me out of those shoes.  Mom thought they held up so well that when I outgrew them...(I had been willing my feet to grow so that I might get a new different pair of shoes) she bought a size bigger in the exact same style!!! She even had my hair cut in the same page-boy style as the Buster Brown character. Oy!!!

Perhaps I am scarred for life but I do appreciate that my mom was doing her best to take care of my feet, thereby teaching me the value of a quality shoe and of course how to polish shoes which I no longer see as a punishment.

living and learning,

abigail dagmar

Comments

[Denise Eberhard]

Hi Abi,
I have had to overcome my laziness and send a belly laugh in response to your story about the Buster Brown's. I too remember scrapping the toes of my nice leather school shoes out of protest. Lets not even talk about the haircuts...

Thanks for all the great info and the humorous insights. Good shoes are an investment. I was happy to read about the earth shoes. Thanks!