For as long as I have known her Queen Marie has been a huge fan of the footwear brand Simple. She has written about them on here and she wears her Simple sneakers until they fall apart. Simple emailed us asking us if they could send us some Simple footwear. Not my cup of tea so I said no thank you, but Queen Marie was most excited, imagining lovely new Simple shoes to write about.
Here's how we expected it to play out: Simple send shoes, Queen Marie takes photos of herself wearing shoes frolicking in the woods, Queen Marie posts about shoes and you read post. Simple, right? Wrong. What actually happened is that Simple send her a shoe. That's correct. One shoe. If you want to get really technical, they send her one shoe...and a shoe belonging to another blogger. Do two odd shoes constitute a pair?
There is a note which accompanies this 'pair' which, from what I can understand from my phone call to Queen Marie, instructs her to Tweet about having a shoe belonging to someone else, and hopefully the person who fits the shoe will read the Tweet and presumably say "oooh that's my shoe!". Apparently this is all designed to encourage the bloggers to meet up, have coffee...and swap shoes. We have a problem - we don't tweet. We don't read tweets. Tweeting is of zero interest to us. Second problem, we live in Glasgow - what are the chances of the other blogger also living in Glasgow? Zero. You couldn't make this up!
So let's just make this Simple shall we? Style High Club, you have Queen Marie's shoe, could you please email her and send her her shoe, and she will endevour to find out who's shoe she has and will post it to them? I even have someone's bloody shoe and I didn't even want them! So I have some poor sod's shoe - Pinwheel Black Size 5, so if this is your shoe let us know and I'll post it. If you are the owner of the Bison size 5 (my shoe apparently), let me know and you can even have my other shoe, thus scooping two pairs for yourself.
Queen Marie is slightly overwhelmed by this and actually truly loves Simple and wants her shoes and wants everybody else to have their shoes. I just hate convoluted marketing ploys.
Queen Michelle
Edit: Style High Club, a kind person in the comments tells me that you have a Pinwheel shoe too! Well, I have the other, so email me your address and I'll send you it.
Edit: OK via a 'clue' on Twitter, a reader has told us that Style High Club does not have Queen Marie's shoe, but Style PA does. Could this farce get any more ridiculous?? I think not.
