"My name is Paylessmandias, King of Shoes;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
I got my coolest shoes in the 80s at Payless. I was a grad student, and the shoes' color was "pewter."
Yes, they were incredibly cheaply made things that were a piece of flexible plastic attached to a white flat plastic sole, but I got many compliments on them, and danced the night away.
