Trends

Your shoes say a lot about you.  At the library, the cool thing for girls is to wear extra high (or, excuse me, x-hi) converse sneakers with their school uniforms, which I love, it's very punk rock.  They usually wear leggings under their skirts, so it is a very common occurrence that they will come in from school, ask for a bathroom key, and head to the bathroom to loose the skirt. Sometimes if the bathroom's occupied they'll just find a vacant isle in the nonfiction section and shed the skirt like it was was a heavy coat, even more punk rock.  They do it with an easy nonchalance.  This is the beauty of a truly great trend, and what makes it become classic style, the fact that it doesn't make you appear insecure and shouts that you're trying to fit it.  Instead, you are allowed to make it your own.

Now here's the funny thing.  My cousins also have a shoe of choice.  That is the Tom's slip on shoe.  Not only are these shoes a mix of preppy meets hippie, but you become an automatic philanthropic patron when you buy a pair.  Checking the prices online, if a person was to buy a pair of extra high converse's or a pair of Toms shoes it would put them back about the same amount, give or take $10 to $15 or so.  What matters is the message you want to send.  Here are two pairs of shoes that aren't about what your parents want you to put on your feet, because you aren't mimicking a more adult style.  No one over 17 should really be caught in either shoe.

The marketing for each company varies.  Converse with its street smart urban cool.  Toms with its do good preppiness.  Back in middle school I too coveted a pair of shoes that I felt would define me.  I saved all my babysitting money to buy a pair of red Dr. Martens boots.  I loved them dearly.  This may make me a little biased toward the style of the tweens at the library, but no matter what style you choose, what you put on your feet says something about who you are to the world and how you're going to walk in it.