The
first 18 pics on the page are from what I'd call my "Red Phase" (the pics
I got back from the chemist's have a slightly reddish tint to them). Cycling
home from a friend's house late on Friday evening near Camden Road train
station, I noticed a tanned and attractive young woman with her dark, curly
hair pleated and braided wearing some Birkenstock-styled mules with extra
chunky soles that complimented her minimal black, ankle-length skirt. She
told me that they were from Shelly's and had cost her around £30.
Here's the pics I got below.
The
next three were taken in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Walking past
the Rocket on Holloway Road, I spotted a blonde-haired girl in a figure-hugging
dress next to a cashpoint outside the venue. She had on strappy heeled
sandals, and was more than happy to pose for me when I asked her to.
Later
on in the day, as I was coming home from work, I saw a lady outside the
NatWest on Upper Street wearing Japanese getas with the footbeds lined
with katana. She was in a hurry as her car parked nearby was on a yellow
line, but I very quickly got these.
These
next three I got on Tollington Park. I actually took pics of this lady
wearing different sandals nearly a year ago (that time, she had on aztec-patterned
Reefs. Typing speed permitting, you'll get to see them in a future update
of my '98 pics section). This time around, she had on scholl-esque sandals
with a cobblestone footbed. Here's what I took.
These
three were taken a few days later while on my way to work. I noticed a
slightly chubby lady sticking European election flyers into the letterboxes
of houses on a side street as I passed by. She had on some Birkenstocks
(always a favourite on this site), and chuckled as I made my request to
her. When I was looking at the pics in a pub called the Royal Exchange
a couple of days later, a slightly tipsy (drunk), but posh speaking lady
looking over my shoulder remarked to me that she "must be from Hampstead
to wear shoes like that". She asked me if she had on a wooly jumper, to
which I replied yes. "I thought so", she said sniffily. "One can always
tell these sorts of things, y'know".
These
were taken after work off Tufnell Park Road. The lady in question was walking
her dog (a shaggy Afghan) and wore classic "cleaning lady" scholls. She
was very taken aback by my request, so I only got the two below.
These
three were taken on Hornsey Road and are of a lovely Italian lady I stopped
wearing some chunky Skechers. It was starting to rain a little, so I had
to snap fast. Here's what I got.
The
following afternoon, I found myself down on Fortess Road, near The Forum
on Kentish Town, when I saw a lady on her bike wearing some interesting
sandals that matched her check trousers. I called out to her and she stopped.
It turned out that she got them while on holiday in Indonesia some time
aback, while the toering and ankle chain were bought in India. Here's
what I got below.
These
three I took on the offy-cum-supermarket on the Kentish Town Road. The
lady in question giggled as I took the pics (she hadn't painted her nails
lately and was a little embarrassed!), and on top of that, a bloke I know
tapped on the shoulder and asked what was I doing. I told him and we talked
for a while before heading our separate ways. Here's the pics to peek at.
I took
these deep inside Hampstead Heath. The lady in the pics was a real "earth
mother", pushing a pram while wearing an ethnic skirt, bangles on her wrists,
long brown wavy hair and of course, blue-black velvet flip-flops with an
ankle chain and toering on her mildly chubby feet. She laughed when I made
my request (don't they always!), but let me snap away all the same. I had
to put up with a local wideboy calling out to me to photograph his trainers
(overpriced and tacky, that's all you need to know about them), but I told
him they weren't what I was after, and he left in a huff.
I'd
hardly said thanks and goodbye to her when I spotted another lady just
up ahead wearing hiking sandals. She was definitely of a backpacking disposition,
because her legs were seriously hairy! She got her sandals while on holiday
in Canada, and found them comfortable to wear. Check 'em out (plus her
hairy legs!).
