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When I was about 13 I got my last pair of H-Strap sandals. Weeks before my mother had kept telling that it was summer and I needed
sandals. However, I did not like wearing sandals. My friends and I started to consider sandals as girlish and "uncool".
In fact, I liked sandals but was a bit too shy to wear them now. So I protested when Mum told me to go to town and buy a pair. But now use ! After I got a new T-shirt, I had to enter a shoe shop with her. The shop assistant asked my mother what we wanted and she told her that I needed sandals. Then the shop assistant asked my about my seize and about the color I wanted. I told her the size and said "brown". Some minutes later she came back with some boxes. She opened the first one and took out a pair of light brown H-strap sandals. They had a brass buckle, showe my toes, had a thong and three slits. I had to undo my Nike-gyms. Then the shop assistant
took my right foot, which was in a white sports sock, and put my foot into the sandal. Then the next foot. When I stood up, I felt embarrassed. I had to go to the mirror and watch myself in sandals. Then I walked around a bit. In a way, it was very exciting. Then I returned to the chair and said that I wanted to try another pair. So the shop assistant opend another box and I put on dark brown H-strap sandals of the same type. They were really great! I closed them and started walking around. Finally, I decided on them and I left the shop
in those sandals. When we got home, some of my friend were playing in the street. When I left the car, I noticed that they watched my feet. But no one said a word about my new sandals.
During the following weeks I had some "fights" with Mum because she wanted me to wear my new sandals at school--but I did not want to. However, she knew methods to "convince" me and I was often seen wearing sandals at school or at home.
A reader asks, "I note the reference here to an "H-Strap Sandal". What exactly is this type?" Goos question. I should have asked the reader who sunmitted this page. It is not a term we have noted before. We suspect it is aafal with a large center bar. Perhaps our German readers can tell us more.
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