A vintage dealer referred to me who is known for selling legitimate rock memoribillia has offered me what he alleges are a pair of Moz's loafers.
They do look similar to some brogues I've seen him wear in photographs but I thought I'd ask the experts before I paid handsomely for them.
Cheers!
Unless the shoes have some historical or iconographic significance, why would you want them? Unless you can find an image of Morrissey wearing the shoes, how do you know your investment will hold it's value? If you need to sell them in the future, how will you prove to other that the shoes are bona-fide. Can your 'dealer' provide you with a receipt showing Morrissey actually purchased and wore the shoes? Without proof that these shoes really did host Morrissey's sacred feet, how can you get the shoes valued for insurance purposes?
Owning a pair of Morrissey's shoes will be an enormously significant development in your life: have you discussed how you will integrate these shoes into other relationships? Will you 'come out' about your relationship with these shoes or will this be a 'secret' that only you and your soulmates here know about?
Purchasing a cast-off pair of Morrissey's shoes is an incredibly serious decision which may have ramifications for the rest of your life. It's not a trivial matter.
The most important thing is to ensure that you have a full laboratory test on the shoes to ensure they are 'pleather'. You do not want to have shoes with 'bad karma' from the days when Morrissey had a 'false consciousness' about shoes and tried to justify wearing the leather that came from the moo-cows he didn't want to fancifully fry. Morrissey may have hurled such shoes into the trash with a curse: if you then bring this 'hate energy' into your life, you may experience 'negative vibrations' and even have nightmares.
Sadly, there is nothing to help you on the world's leading resource for 'celebrity shoes':
http://www.celebrityshoesize.com/category/m
You will just have to be brave and strong about this shoe dilemma. But our prophet and spiritual guide, Morrissey, has given us some guidance on this issue in the early sacred texts of The Smiths (peace be upon them all!)
'Every day you must say
Oh, how do I feel about my shoes ?
They make me awkward and plain
How dearly I would love to kick with the fray ...
I once had a dream and it never came true'
'
What can we unpack from these incredibly shoe-tastic lyrics? Well, first and most importantly: Morrissey guides us to treat our shoes as being worthy of daily meditation and contemplation. It's not a suggestion, it's a firm commandment if we are really to be serious in our dedication to 'Morrissey's World'. We 'must' reflect daily on how we feel about our footwear. We can be casual about our socks, perhaps, but we 'must' understand the emotional impact of how our shoes make us feel.
The next line tells us that not all shoes worn by His Mozjesty are equal. The shoes he was wearing whilst composing this hymn made him feel 'awkward and plain'. Would you want these shoes? Would you want that 'awkward and plain'' shoe vibe on your Morrissey altar?
Saying he would 'love to kick with the fray' is a mysterious injunction. Is this a reference to Morrissey's failure to become a professional footballer? Is it a lament for boots that he will never wear? Don't forget, he was selling football based t-shirts in Manchester.
Finally, he laments 'I once had a dream and it never came true'. Is this 'buyer's remorse' about shoe purchases? Was his dream to go into the city centre and buy a pair of new shoes as 'retail therapy' only to find that they didn't deliver the psychological support he hoped for. His dream of shoes was not fulfilled.
Is this a warning to his 'fans' to be very, very careful about shoe purchases in general?
Whatever decison you make, I hope it's the right one for you. To pass up on these shoes could be a big mistake as you may never have a chance to have an intimate relationship with Morrissey's feet ever again in this incarnation. To be honest, I'm just glad I don't have to wrestle with this one. It's just soo....vast.
I'd like to thank you for this thread. It's really helped me focus on how and why we've all come together as a Morrissey 'community'. Here we can fully divulge and share the depths of our devotion without being ridiculed as fools by the cruel taunts of unbelief.
If you buy these shoes, the most difficult decision will be whether you are buried with them or pass them on to your descendants.
wishing you every possible blessing as you struggle with this
regards.
squiffy: I know), men's shoe sizes-on average- are supposed to be 15.5% of their height in inches. (Women's are 14.5%)
