Dorothy’s Shoes

I had this great little boy in my store the other day(and his mom and baby sister). He was about 4 years old, just kind of a regular little guy. But when he came across the red sequined dress-up shoes I had hung with the tu-tus, his eyes lit up and I saw he had these big cute dimples, when he exclaimed “These are Dorothy’s shoes!”. He took them down to show his mom and she said, “I’m not sure they’re your size”, but he already had his shoes off  ready to put the red sparkly ones on. Since his mom was occupied with the baby, I said “Should I help you, here let me cut the tag off first”. He was quite willing to have me help him so we proceeded to push them on to his little wide foot (the shoe was narrow, but plenty long) until we finally got it on. I said, it might be better if you took your socks off, because then your foot might slip in easier. So off came the socks and after a little struggle, we got both feet into the red Dorothy shoes. He was excited as with a sparkle in his eye he told me they were magic shoes and that HE was a magician. They looked great on him too! He did a little dance for me and it was the cutest thing I’ve seen. The little boy in gray sweatpants dancing for me in little red sequined pointy toed shoes. He walked around the store for the next half an hour wearing them. And needless to say, he also walked out of the store wearing his magic Dorothy shoes. I really like his parents for giving him that latitude. Those huge dimples on his cheeks are totally worth it.

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