Hooray For School Dance Sneakers!

Books by Patti Liszkay
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​HOORAY FOR SCHOOL DANCE SNEAKERS!

      While scrolling through my Facebook feed the other day I came across these pictures posted by a friend of her daughters and their friends at their high school Homecoming dance (which appears to be taking place outdoors, a smart choice of venue for the time).  

       At long last, thought I as I perused the pictures, girls have finally been liberated from those dreadful high heels!  
      My heart sang. I rejoiced. Not for myself; this great breakthrough was too late for me. Well, not that I went to that many dances back when I was high school. This is because back in my day people were required to have a date of the opposite sex to attend a school dance, and, not having a boyfriend, I usually didn't have access to to a dance date. (Though it didn't occur to me at the time, I suppose the upside of sitting at home on dance night was that I didn't have to spend the evening dancing in uncomfortable dress shoes).
       This improvement in acceptable school dance foot ware likewise arrived too late in the timeline to benefit my daughters - well, not my daughters per se: My oldest daughter once actually did wear to a dance a pair of the chunky-heeled sneakers that were briefly in vogue in the 1990's with pink socks to go with her pink thrift-store dress.

     (Unfortunately I didn't get the sneakers and pink socks in this shot, but the sneakers looked  like this):

      And then another of my daughters might have worn sneaker the time she and her friend decided to go to their junior prom together dressed as fairies, her friend wearing the same thrift-store dress as worn by my daughter in the above picture.

    And then there was my youngest daughter, who wore white Keds to her first communion with the pants suit I made for her because she refused to wear a dress:

​    So anyway, as my own daughters' feet were perhaps not always bound by  convention - I suppose because my daughters were not always bound by convention - it's more  my daughters' generation to which I refer.
         But my daughters' and son's daughters' generation will, at last, be free to wear sneakers or any other comfortable shoes, such as these dress crocs, which, I see, were likewise being worn to  the Homecoming,

​...to proms, Homecomings, and, one can only hope, all future dress-up events, thanks to these liberated young women,

... who've paved a more comfortable road for the feet of girls and women down the way.
         As for me, I've been ready for a while now.