Shoes for thought

I really like the topic covered here, and the aspect from which the author approaches it, shoes as a necessity, not an indulgence. Tying the notion of shoe-shopping to emotional and mental health, as opposed to obsessive materialism, is interesting.

I like how she provides us with a couple of far-flung explanations that market analysts offered as to why shoes aren't among products with diminishing sales. It makes you wonder about the soundness of other types of market-based analyses. Hmmm.

What appealed to me most about this article was the attempt to understand social behavior by way of observing certain patterns in relatively abnormal circumstances, i.e., shoe sales during a recession.