Garbage for the Feets!
Manolo says, here you see the craft project that has gone horribly, terribly awry: the plastic grocery bags crocheted into the pair of the sandals.
Yes, it is not the secret that the Manolo has many times in the past been so poor that he has had to fashion his own super fantastic shoes out of the recycled and repurposed objects. And so he could perhaps be considered the expert in such matters, which it is why he is qualified to say that these shoes they are frightening.
These they are the sort of thing that would be worn the ranting homeless lady who lives in the culvert behind the Ralph’s Super Saver. You know, the one who wears the dirty grey poncho and shouts at you as you leave your car, “Whore of Babylon! You’ll burn in the sulphurous pits of Hell!”
That one.
This is the sort of person who would put such things upon her feets.
Do not be this person, do not wear such things upon your feets.
P.S. Many thanks to the Pamela for alerting the Manolo to this horror.
June 17th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
As a Sewing Diva I have to agree this beautifully illustrates the problem with crafts in this country - this is what we have sunk to. The sewing equivalent of this atrocity would be fabric bowls, and handbags made from Mylar Capri Sun juice bags.
June 17th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Two words: Peee-yooo.
June 17th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
I don’t know weather to be impressed or saddened by the amount of time and patience these must have taken.
June 17th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Figures it was made by a crocheter! Pah.
June 17th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Just looking at those makes me itchy.
June 17th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
At first glance, I thought the Manolo was breaking out into podiatric archeology. Then I realized that these sandals really will still be here in two thousand years.
June 17th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
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June 18th, 2006 at 2:22 am
greetings from London vacation. Those shoes are horrifying. I bet there are many freaks in my town of Portland who would wear those.
June 18th, 2006 at 4:58 am
The Lady DunBraidh must just shake her head and wonder why, oh why would anyone spend so much time and effort making garbage for the feets?
June 18th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Karenology is right. There are no depths to which crocheters will not sink.
June 18th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
And this person who wears this pair has one very large foot and one very small one? I assume that is how we can identify who the plastic bag shoe wearing person is. ;)
June 18th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
This looks very Fisher King-ish.
June 18th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
I attempted to open the link you posted and cannot get it to work. :( I am so curious on making them for the “just because” reason.
=:8
June 18th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
If you go to the site, she indeed has feet that should not be in sandals, least of all these horrific things. What’s most comical are the atta-girls and kudos that are being left on her site for making these attrocious things. Even my 10-year-old shrank back in horror at the picture.
June 19th, 2006 at 6:56 am
“Dani Says:
June 17th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
At first glance, I thought the Manolo was breaking out into podiatric archeology. Then I realized that these sandals really will still be here in two thousand years.”
then in museums they will be dispayed as foot wear of “our” times….. this is getting worse.
lets pray theyre biodegradable
June 19th, 2006 at 7:53 am
Just the thing to go with the patchouli oil and the dirty white-boy dreadlocks.
June 19th, 2006 at 7:53 am
Miachelle, you noticed that too! I was stunned at the accolades left on the blog by eco-minded ‘crafters’, even moreso when several asked for the pattern to make their own monstrosities!
June 19th, 2006 at 8:21 am
One guy even said he’d BUY them! Pay money for garbage? No thank you. I pay money to remove garbage from my house.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:17 am
There was a girl in college with me who brought one of those wooden bead car seat covers (like cabbies have) to the lecture hall with her.
She had (thank you, Zarba) white-girl dreads and smelled of patchouli and bong water. Her “street name” may have in fact been Patchouli. I think her “slave name” was Alexandra.
While she rarely wore shoes, she would’ve loved these, and worn them with Muppet socks on cold days.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:07 am
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June 19th, 2006 at 10:13 am
These are not the right shoes to start my day.
They remind me of being at App. State again.
Wonder if they tried paper bags first….
June 19th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Okay, the “sandals” (shudder) are horrifying enough, but WHY IS HER FOURTH TOE ONLY HALF AS LONG AS HER OTHER TOES?! That is really freaking me out.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Still more attractive than the Croc.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:41 am
OMG! Those are hideous! They are the kind of the tourists wear with socks! Gross!
They give crochters a BAD, BAD, BAD name. I am a crochter. ALL CROCHETERS ARE NOT LIKE THAT! At least, I’m not. They are hideous! There should be laws against that sort of thing…
June 19th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Perfect for a game of Hacky Sack!
June 19th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
The Giabella, she thinks there must be a better way to recycle the plastic bags from the WalMart.
June 20th, 2006 at 12:17 am
Please do not tar all crocheters with the same brush. Some of us aspire to be superfabulous with this art. (I am fond of making thread lace, not shoes from plastic bags!!)
June 20th, 2006 at 3:24 am
Mme.DeFarge, I have been looking for someone who makes thread lace as I wish to complete some lovely linen items inherited from a great aunt. Do you have, or can you suggest, a website? Those crafted sandals? Think what heights the creator of them could reach if she chose to make something beautiful!
June 20th, 2006 at 9:01 am
These are to sandals what Connie Chung is to torch singers.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
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June 21st, 2006 at 5:48 pm
The Desertwind and I see many things the same way! :D
June 25th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Live free! Interwoven with bubble-wrap, couldn’t plastic-istas contribute a defense against Global Warming by absorbing foot-fetid CO2? Call them “Gores”, reminding us of the Long March that Chairman Al began in January 2001. Or perhaps “Murthas”, as Okinawa-ready for “peripheral” deployment.
Actually, is footwear constructed of crotcheted grocery bags any worse than Kerry’s ongoing flip-flops? The VC used tire treads… is not a sleeping Buddha still a Buddha? We must all bear the burden! (Thanks, Jimmeh.)
September 6th, 2006 at 8:44 am
I imagine wearing those would cause one’s feet to sweat buckets, leaving a wet trail everywhere you went.
of course you could wear them with socks… but then my eyes would bleed with pain at the sight
April 15th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
all those shoes are very lovable want to wear it……
June 24th, 2007 at 2:21 am
What a bunch of snobs you are.