"Fabulous Footwear"

Be you a "Cinder-ella" or a "Cinder-fella", you wear some kind of footwear to work in the garden.
A few years ago we were in town and my partner stopped by a little store in one of the side streets. I stayed outside chatting with a mate. So she sticks her head out the door and says, "Come in a moment, will you?". I say good bye to my buddy and in I went, curious.
She says that she's got a crazy notion to buy some wellies (rubber garden boots) for working in the garden. I looked around and said, "This a boutique" Neutral

Then she says, "Have a look at these. What do you think?"
I was astounded and for once, was speechless.
While I had turned into a piller of salt and just stood there, trying to get my head around this.... she eased over to the cashier and quietly paid.
She just sort of pulled at my elbow and said, "Ok lets go then."
Well, we went home and when she took them out and looked at them silently...grinning...
I broke the silence and said, "And now wot?!"
"Why, I'm going to wear them at the lottie", she said, with conviction.
It was weeks.
She wears them now regularly, and I always smile.
So.... what do you wear while doing garden work?
Here are her's (she got the green ones):

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Sjoerd http://www.volkstuindersvereniginghoornenomstreken.nl/Page11.html

When I have a pair of shoes that are absolutely too scandulously worn-out to be worn in public, they become my new pair of garden shoes...at least that's the way I normally do it; however, my partner talked me into buying a "decent" pair of shoes just for garden ware. I really thought this was nuts...but I did go and buy a very inexpensive pair of canvas trainer-type shoes. They have a very deep tread and thus collect moist soil which lets loose at home. They are sort of tan and show every stain imaginable. My partner has now admitted that perhaps it wasn't such a good idea after all Confused

...but "'m the one stuck with a new pair of shoes that show no sign of wearing out whatsoever.

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I used to wear wooden shoes as several of the older allotmenteers do, but finally stopped as I didn't find them comfortable enough. They don't give at all, of course, and I spend alot of time on my knees.

Nice knee pads, Petunia. I use those too (although mine are black), especially if I am laying paths in the flower garden or planting seedlings out. It is possible to buy the "industrial" sort that the guys use who lay streets and pparking lots and driveways. Over here, we still use bricks instead of tarmack in many places.

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Sjoerd http://www.volkstuindersvereniginghoornenomstreken.nl/Page11.html