New Shoes will chase away the Blues. Yes, it’s true! Remember when you were young and you got a new pair of shoes, you ran to every house in your neighborhood to show them your new shoes. Remember how fast you could run, faster than any of the other kids. They wouldn’t agree to race you as they knew you would win.
Then it rained and your new shoes got wet and dirty. Now they were no longer new and your position in the neighborhood was back to where it was before. But you really felt good for a while didn’t you ! If you were a girl, new shoes made you feel like a princess and you would dance all over the place.
I myself got lucky a couple of times and was given new shoes. Most of the time, I had to wear hand me downs. They were well used and never lasted very long. Shoe polish never would have helped any. But some times I got new laces to put in the shoes. That was almost as good.
If your father was working and earned a living wage, You might have had two pair of shoes, one for Sunday dress and a pair for ever day use.
Easter was one time in a year that new outfits for everyone in the family. In my family, if anyone got new clothing, it was the girls first. Of course Girls seemed to have neat looking clothing the year long, as grandma or mom would sew dresses and things for them. Most mothers didn’t know how to make boys clothing. If my Dad never had any goods clothes or a suit, I never seen them. Blue denim cover-alls was all I ever saw him wear when I was younger.
"Shame on me," but I never paid much attention to what Mother had, I am sure She had more than a couple of dresses and I can’t remember if she ever wore slacks or not.
Dresses were nice, but the shoes were what made you dance and run and jump. Shoes that wore too fast and were still good, were taken to a shop and repaired. The shoe shop usually made the shoe better than when they were new. I once had two pair of shoes. I wore one pair, while the other was in the shoe repair shop. When they were done, the other pair were in the shop. I loved to slide on gravel and kick cans and rocks. My feet were always cool because my shoes were always wet. Where ever I went, people could always smell wet leather, but I couldn’t!
My summers out of school were short, they only lasted a few weeks. When I went back to school I had to leave my shoes outside, but I was allowed keep my socks on in the class room, the socks were where the smell came from. In fact, I was given two recesses in the morning and two in the afternoon. Sometimes the teacher would let me go home early!
By: Ben R.
Then it rained and your new shoes got wet and dirty. Now they were no longer new and your position in the neighborhood was back to where it was before. But you really felt good for a while didn’t you ! If you were a girl, new shoes made you feel like a princess and you would dance all over the place.
I myself got lucky a couple of times and was given new shoes. Most of the time, I had to wear hand me downs. They were well used and never lasted very long. Shoe polish never would have helped any. But some times I got new laces to put in the shoes. That was almost as good.
If your father was working and earned a living wage, You might have had two pair of shoes, one for Sunday dress and a pair for ever day use.
Easter was one time in a year that new outfits for everyone in the family. In my family, if anyone got new clothing, it was the girls first. Of course Girls seemed to have neat looking clothing the year long, as grandma or mom would sew dresses and things for them. Most mothers didn’t know how to make boys clothing. If my Dad never had any goods clothes or a suit, I never seen them. Blue denim cover-alls was all I ever saw him wear when I was younger.
"Shame on me," but I never paid much attention to what Mother had, I am sure She had more than a couple of dresses and I can’t remember if she ever wore slacks or not.
Dresses were nice, but the shoes were what made you dance and run and jump. Shoes that wore too fast and were still good, were taken to a shop and repaired. The shoe shop usually made the shoe better than when they were new. I once had two pair of shoes. I wore one pair, while the other was in the shoe repair shop. When they were done, the other pair were in the shop. I loved to slide on gravel and kick cans and rocks. My feet were always cool because my shoes were always wet. Where ever I went, people could always smell wet leather, but I couldn’t!
My summers out of school were short, they only lasted a few weeks. When I went back to school I had to leave my shoes outside, but I was allowed keep my socks on in the class room, the socks were where the smell came from. In fact, I was given two recesses in the morning and two in the afternoon. Sometimes the teacher would let me go home early!
By: Ben R.
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