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Slipping on wet tiles, sliding in mud, getting your shoes stuck in soil – the wrong footwear can ruin your night.
Soon, our contemporary Eurydice in the wrong footwear makes the momentous decision to "shed her red wedge / with its Mary Jane band".
The wrong footwear can decompose the whole picture — Ségolène clicketyclacking around the slums of Chile in stilettos or Condoleeza Rice wearing what one commentator called her "butchy boots" — leaving us stuck with unmatching pieces of a puzzle.
Tring wasn't the only school to take such measures – other reports have described children being sent home from various schools in the past week for wearing the wrong footwear, or even the wrong kind of socks.
Winman certainly has a way with imagery though, a clever combination of the literal and the metaphorical: a woman who's clad in the wrong footwear to scale the wall Drake's built around his heart, "hers were far too sensible for a man like Drake"; or a bruise "inching acr oss" a heart.
He also agreed with coach Warren Gatland's assessment that Beale wore the wrong footwear.
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Dry skin, and wrong footwear, won't necessarily result in cracked heels for everyone.
In an age when young people beat each other up for their $150 sneakers, ads that put a school's imprimatur on athletic footwear can send precisely the wrong message.
As for the issue of bullying at school, children get bullied for having the wrong trainers, but that doesn't mean we should ban cheap footwear brands, does it?
James Milner – 7 Began with the wrong boots for the pitch, and after a couple of slips and a change of footwear fizzed a shot fractionally wide.
The grin, the strut, the lack of footwear, everything about it was so wrong yet so right.
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