Mending my Moccasin
Jimmy Choo you design beautiful foot-stopping shoes, from sleek, savvy pumps, brilliant, bold wedges, sinister, sexy sandals, to flirty, focused flats, but can you save a moccasin from a near death experience? No? Well, I can, and in less than five minutes, and no, I didn’t need an app either.
With a small spool of tan thread, I discovered in my bathroom cupboard in a travel kit that I don’t remember receiving, I sat on my toilet and performed emergency surgery on my punctured moccasin last week. I attempted to start the first stitch on the inside so you couldn’t see the knot. I tried several times, bending the moccasin this way and that, trying to get the needle to the hole in the toe, but it just wasn’t going to happen—my hands, which are small, were too big, so I had to make do with the knot being on the outside instead of in. No one would be examining my job beneath a microscope anyway, and if they did, I would say, “You try going a year without buying new clothes and see what measures you’re willing to take. I bet you will be sewing your underwear.” I looped the peephole closed multiple times like any good doctor would and then a couple more just to make sure the stitch wouldn’t separate again, and it would have to make another trip to the hospital (aka my bathroom).
I sported the recovering moccasin immediately at work—no R&R for that shoe. “It looks great!” . . . “You sewed that?” . . . “Nice job!” were just some of the compliments we (my shoe and me) received from my colleagues.
May sound silly but I was pretty proud of myself. I’m not going to get any big award or start marketing mended moccasins, but I am going to attempt to fix every piece of article of clothing on the verge of death by my overuse–with the exception of underwear. 🙂
the Clothing Fast Project 