They have been called earth shoes, Tom Cruise shoes…(an increase in height…5’5 can now be 5’7)…weebels…(weebels wobble but they don’t fall down! a flash from the the past for us 50 somethings.)
They are really M B T shoes…..Masai Balance Trainers….like walking on the beach…contact with surfaces comes up through the in-step not on the front or back of the foot.
I was turned on to them 2 years ago after a trip to New York when 7 hour treks across Central Park and 5th Avenue brought agony while wearing Nike Air Trainers.
With age comes foot problems for most….loss of cartilage….which means loss of cushioning….and this type of ailment brings a journey…a mission for relief!
Then low and behold in a magazine…comes a small article about MBT shoes….then logging on to Google…and a little research…and finding them online.
White, and orthopedic looking 2 years ago…not much variety…but throwing fashion out the window….(agony overrides fashion…never a high heel type) and a wad of bucks…250 bucks….I took the chance….they came…put them on…rocked to and fro…and off you go!
How do you spell relief….MBT’s!
My daughters were mortified…they were ugly….how could I? How could I not!
Next trip to New York….7 hours…felt like 2!
I wish I had a commission for all the shoes I helped to sell to those I know and strangers far and wide….retirement would come earlier!
Right here in LBTS… a member of the Old Guard…who recently moved out of town….inquired…bought a pair himself….then his friends bought a pair…one after the other …..and suddenly those men of differing and at times hostile politics. were walking this town in black MBT’s! They would sheepishly smile…as sort of an acknowledgment… only one has spoken to me of these shoes and what they have done to change his quality of life…. it takes a special shoe to cross the political divide…MBT’s!
So snicker…make comments…whatever…but with the closet full I have…sneakers, sandals, boots and shoes….MBT’s ….I can always walk away!
