Dorcs!
Manolo says, Here is the very amusing fake commercial from the Canada. The Manolo especially appreciates this bit of dialogue:
Nancy: “But they’re so ugly!”
Jim: “That’s how you know they’re comfortable.”
This says everything about how many not very bright peoples regard the feetwear, that only those shoes which are wickedly ugly can provide comfort.
When will these peoples learn that comfort and style are not incompatible? One does not obviate the other.
Yes, if you are cheap and all you wish to spend is $34.99 you will undoubtedly be disappointed in your shoes, unless you are able to delude yourself into thinking that the ridiculous plastic slippers in the infantile colors are the height of fashion.
As always, the solution is to shop carefully, to choose wisely, and to spend the reasonable sum on the high quality shoes that fit your feets properly. But this is much harder than throwing on the pair of Dorcs.
P.S. Many thanks to Manolo’s friend the Hilary.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Toooooooo f funny.. that is from the program This Hour has 22 Minutes I suspect.. I recognize Mary Walsh the actress.
I was laffin my arse off here…as I sit in my fur coat… just shovelled the snow…and Im wearing my bright yellow DORCS………… too funny… yes.. I have too gone over to the Dorc Side…(Traps - $16 Cdn).. hell I aint paying no $59Cdn for the real ones…sheeeeesh!
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
“Toooooooo f funny.. that is from the program This Hour has 22 Minutes I suspect.. I recognize Mary Walsh the actress.”
And by Mary Walsh you mean Cathy Jones, right?
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 pm
A super-fantastic helloo to you, Manolo! I just came across the most bizarre shoes at this site http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/GFY112005/73443919.jpg
and thought you might find them amusing…
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 am
baha. Those funny Canadians…
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:21 am
I love them, I want a pair of Dorcs, life would be so much more colourful :-)
This may sounds stupid, but can you actually buy them?
March 5th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Yes, you can actually buy them but we like you too much to enable this mistake. It would be like buying a toddler crack.
It’s astonishing the lengths to which people will go to justify their purchase and public wearing of these hideous plastic gnome-sandals.
“They’re fun!” leads one to speculate unkindly about how existentially bleak their lives must have become.
“They’re comfortable,” really means nothing but “I’ve given up trying and my spouse and I haven’t had sex in three years, but I’ve come to accept it.”
“They’re in now,” really just means “Everyone in my Dungeons and Dragons group is wearing them.”
“I wear them all the time,” followed by a raised eyebrow, hopefully begging puppy face means “The scene I will throw having a self-esteem meltdown is far, far more painful than simply swallowing your opinion and enabling me, so what’s it gonna be?”
March 5th, 2007 at 8:58 am
[…] March 5th, 2007 at 12:55 pm (beauty, Canada, fashion, Hoaxes, Blogroll, Sex, Work, advice, Entertainment, sad, Humour) Stolen from The Manolo, who got it from Hilary, who got it from This Hour Has 22 Minutes, here is a lovely CBC-production-values-worthy commercial for that superstar of the footwear fashion world, Dorcs! […]
March 8th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
lay off, i don’t own a pair but who are you to say what people should wear and why they are wearing them? lighten up.