Shoe Randomness

I was at Target tonight shopping for some last minute travel items before I leave for our annual departmental retreat tomorrow when a girl came up to me and asked me about my shoes. Now that in and of itself is not that unsual but she continued to ask non-fashion related (and slightly personal for a stranger although not offensively so) questions. I had just come from dance class and was wiped out. The last thing I wanted to do was reveal my life history to some random girl in the toiletries aisle. However, I scrounged together some manners and chatted politely with her. I'm rambling here...(remember the tiredness????). Anyway, she said something that striked me as funny. She said, "That my shoes looked like J.Crew." Now what does that mean????... That they look expensive? or that they look preppy? Hmmm, thanks to the former but I'll pass on the latter. I don't think that my shoes were anything out of the ordinary. They're brown slip-ons, slightly (and only slightly) reminiscent of bowling shoes. I bought them three and a half years ago in preparation for my trip to England. (I was really excited about these shoes at the time and my friend Stephanie reminded me that is was going to be rainy in England and that perhaps backless shoes were not the best items to be taking with me. While that made a lot of sense, I took them with me anyway and they were great. I bought rainproof sneakers (or trainers if you prefer) for the rain and THEY were definitely the best shoe buy ever! Go Montrail and REI!!!). They were in no way expensive...I doubt I paid more than $40 for them at Dillards. Ah the randomness.....