i spent

too much time (about 5 minutes) in the steve madden store recently. looking for a nude pair of flats. i know, i know, i am really late to the nude shoe game. but what can i say? it takes me a while to warm up to most things (except dogs). i don't want to spend a fortune on these, and i don't want embellishments. just simple, relatively comfortable, and able to go with anything. s.m. was not my first choice of retailers, but it had come to this.

alas, there were some questionable characters: a guy speaking way too loudly and way too bossy to his girlfriend and some girls whose nasally voices hit at the exact spot in my brain to cause a headache. but nude flats? nope.

so i took to the internet, my trusty shopping companion when all else fails. but as is the case in so many other aspects of life (see the paradox of choice, one of my all time favorite books about human consumption and satisfaction), the internet presented way too many options, which turned into confusion.

which shade of nude? there is a yellow nude, a tan nude, and a pinky nude. eeeek.

i finally settled on these cole haan puppies:they are definitely on the pinky side, but i'm crossing my fingers they're not tooooo pink. they're as simple as they get, and cole haan is usually pretty comfy. and they were on sale for my huge sized feet, so i was in luck (shoe luck rarely happens to us bigfoots. i'll take what i can get). they're better quality than anything from steve madden...and no nasally voices anywhere.