Out of Touch
May. 21st, 2006 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpYesterday I attended a friend's wedding and another friend was wearing a new pair of shoes. Other friends were oohing over the shoes (that's how I knew they were new) and talking about how they were "Fluevog's." I had never heard of this type of shoe so I said, "What are Fluevog's?" and was told that they are very fancy-pants shoes. (And they are, in fact, very lovely.) And then I said, "Where does one buy these Fluevog's?" and was told, "At the john Fluevog store on Newbury Street."
So I am quite old and out of touch. At least in the realm of fancy shoes. Because I didn't know, even while they were talking, whether Fluevog was a /brand/ of shoe or a /style/ of shoe or what! I guess I'm just a crappy shoes kind of gal. :)
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At the wedding, a number of the groom's family members did this traditional Ukrainian Bread Dance. There was an informational card on the table about how this special Ukrainian Wedding Bread is made and what it symbolizes and all of that, and it was very nice. And then the family members were doing those Eastern European high kicks and bouncing around with the bread and there was a lot of polka music and the women were doing these line kicks and these spins and let me tell you, it was majorly kick ass. Everyone was clapping and one relative got so into the spinning that she fell into an arrangement of plants! Damn, I wish I had some sort of cool ceremonial thinger.
My grandmother is Ukrainian. She married a Portuguese dude, so I guess she kind of stopped doing a number of Ukrainian things aside from making pierogies and galumpkes and things like that. I think I'll ask her if she knows about this mysterious Bread Dance.
So I am quite old and out of touch. At least in the realm of fancy shoes. Because I didn't know, even while they were talking, whether Fluevog was a /brand/ of shoe or a /style/ of shoe or what! I guess I'm just a crappy shoes kind of gal. :)
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At the wedding, a number of the groom's family members did this traditional Ukrainian Bread Dance. There was an informational card on the table about how this special Ukrainian Wedding Bread is made and what it symbolizes and all of that, and it was very nice. And then the family members were doing those Eastern European high kicks and bouncing around with the bread and there was a lot of polka music and the women were doing these line kicks and these spins and let me tell you, it was majorly kick ass. Everyone was clapping and one relative got so into the spinning that she fell into an arrangement of plants! Damn, I wish I had some sort of cool ceremonial thinger.
My grandmother is Ukrainian. She married a Portuguese dude, so I guess she kind of stopped doing a number of Ukrainian things aside from making pierogies and galumpkes and things like that. I think I'll ask her if she knows about this mysterious Bread Dance.
