Here are shoes I got recently to wear to an outdoor wedding with, gasp (for me), bare legs! I got them in the neutral-gold color as in the photo, not the Find. I do wonder if they skew toward the dreaded fr--- word, or if I can claim classicism. Clearly not edgy, of course. And they are casual in fabrication and style, which is intended.
The rounded toe is what makes them so comfortable and healthy for my feet, so that I can keep them on all day, and the heel is low enough for stable walking, so that they are "worry-free" compared to shoes that start out okay but can't go the distance over a few hours. I wanted closed toe on purpose--I could have managed with limited types of more covered-up open toes, but those have been hard to find, and with these I also have no toe-worries.
So here's the thing--when I find a shoe that is really comfortable and stress-free, it surely makes me wonder why I spend any time at all in "4-hour shoes" (which I do sometimes because a) I want to achieve a certain look, always for some kind of dress-up occasion, or b) they seemed comfortable but turned out to pinch or whatever at the X-hour point, and I haven't determined to give them up).
Yet, I fretted about whether I liked them because they were comfortable and I "made" them work, or were JFE, or whether other people would think I was fr----. Or if somehow I can no longer tell the difference!
I think I am still not realistic about how fussy my feet are and I push the style envelope (that should get a laugh, I think!) rather than just relax and find the happy medium between what I see as modern shoe styles, and what I can wear.
I realize that there are HEWI's that might bridge this gap, so I'm always looking for those--perfect comfort that also looks either perfectly classic or interestingly modern--and I find it occasionally, but really some of the comfort elements are toe-box related and so automatically not present in pointy-toe, slim cuts, some kinds of leathers, or un-characterizable shoe-last/shoe fit that you can't predict. This is a lot easier for casual shoes with pants, or for boots, as has been discussed many times.
Is anyone else out there feeling as though they ought to pay even more attention to shoe comfort, but have a degree of shoe-snobbery driving you to compromise, or fret ?
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