Chicagoist: Fashion Emergency

curmudgeon

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:10:12 -0600

You KNOW if it was the real deal it would be barefoot and feets don't fail me now all the way.

MJK

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:00:27 -0600

Give them credit for at least taking part in the exercise. Because when the big one comes, there's going to be a lot of screaming bitches in them stairwells because they won't know what to do, where to go, and what to bring with. The fire marshall that conducts tests in our building has us go down a few flights for a drill and screams at anyone with a cup of coffee in their hands and points at anyone in heels and tells them to take them off the next time.

s

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:57:53 -0600

heels are so stupid. extra pointy toed shoes are even more stupid. it makes me ashamed to be a girl to see women hobbling painfully around in pointy-toed, high-heeled contraptions instead of wearing shoes in which you can walk. which i do believe is the *point* of shoes. morons.

ElectricBooGaloo

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:48:46 -0600

Fashion before function, always... even if it means sacrificing the lives of thousands of others.

Jeff

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:24:37 -0600

Why on earth didn't they just remove their heels, carry them down the stairs, then put them back on before going outside? The mind boggles. Couldn't these morons tell they were slowing things down? It's just common courtesy.

geekgrrl

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:23:48 -0600

this was supposed to be an emergency drill. in a genuine emergency, people are going to be wearing all sorts of impractical shit. this is a decent way of gauging just how long it's going to take the fashionistas of the world to get the fuck out of a collapsing highrise. alternatively, you *could* not wear shoes that make you want to saw your feet off at the ankle. women at large seem to have a big problem with that.