I can't help you with the shoes, but your English is fabulous! Had you not mentioned you aren't English speaking first, I would never have guessed.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi