Remember when you were a kid and you hated wearing new shoes to school?
You’d try as hard as you could to scuff them up before any school friends saw them, but not too much, fearing that your parents would give you Hell for ruining them when you got home.
It seems nowadays you pay for the privilege of having dirty shoes.
I found these in the bargain bin at the Steve Madden outlet store recently, and for twenty bucks, I wasn’t going to turn them down.
I actually asked the sales girl if they had any clean laces to replace the ones they had on as they were filthy.
She looked at me as if I was “special” and said “They’re supposed to look like that.”
How was I supposed to know that the new look was “homeless bin-diver”?
Steve Madden