March 15, 2009
Practical fashion advice needed
There are many things to like about the new job I begin tomorrow.
The hours, for starters: M-Th 11-7 and F 11-3. The world is run by morning people. I am not one of them. To be offered a job with these hours is a gift.
I also live close enough to the new job to walk to work. It’s 13 minutes one way. And the sun is returning, and spring is on the way.
It would be simple enough if I just wore my work shoes to walk to work. I tend to wear comfortable shoes for work, but they’re not really intended for that kind of walking (on the road part of the way), and I can pretty much guarantee that my feet would be hurting after a couple of days of this.
I don’t want to wear my real walking shoes. For one, dress pants are too long to wear flat shoes. In addition, they’re just ugly.
You’d think this would be easier, but I’ve tied myself up in knots over less.
Any ideas?
Comments
YAY!!!
From where I sit, if you really want to walk regularly, you have to wear the right clothes, which to me would mean at the very minimum taking a change of pants (skirt/bottoms) and shoes with you. I have this dilemma every year for conventions, and I always grin and bear the wrong shoes or drive. But long-term, you have to wear the right clothes. No other way around it.
I have decided that the real solution lays in riding a bicycle to work. We’ve got one that needs a little fixing up, and then I can use it.