above; a few of les outfits de handmade from this month. The whole lot can be seen here
So, my second month of wearing exclusively head-to-toe handmade clothing is up… how’s it going? well, still ticking along … 
As predicted; clothes are easy, and so far so good on the shoe front, but winter shoes are still worrying me. I’m quite nervous as to how they’re going to hold up in wet weather. I’m appreciating now that I am VERY tough on my shoes, I do a lot of walking every day, and through rough-ish terrain on a regular basis too, and I rack up a lot of steps. My floral sandshoes have already bitten the dust and my red sandshoes are on their last legs… already!
The florals; I wore them in full-on torrential rain, they got completely sodden and filthy and after four days they looked like the dog had chewed them up (she hadn’t)… Binned!
Also, during the month, I went away to my parents’ place and wore my red sandshoes every day; they stood up OK to five days of walking in the bush, and they’ve had another coupla days of the beach and doing it tough in the rain too.. but they too got sopping wet and I can see they are not going to last much longer either. It’s that yoga matting I used for the lining in both of them, it’s just not very tough nor stable so I doubt I’ll bother with that ever again. Oh well, it was an experiment, that was a big fail, at least I know now for sure!
The good news is that so far my funny yellow tape shoes are promising to be OK in the wet weather…. *crosses fingers* I hope I haven’t jinxed them now…
Honestly, one thing I’m gaining is a huge huge HUGE appreciation for how tough wet-weather shoes have to be, as well as the difficulties of constructing them to be so. When you think about how even the cheapest and flimsiest of cheap shoes hold up so well to sloshing through puddles, in stormy and rainy weather, well it’s pretty impressive, really.
Anyway, I’m halfway through a pair of real leather shoes… finally! so I have high hopes that the fabulousness that is leather will make them all of amazing and awesomely tough and weather-resistant, just on the merits of that. HIGH HOPES… pinning them on you, leather. Please don’t let me down *hairy eyeball*
At least, if all else fails, well, those tape shoes are very easy things to make …. 
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