Dr Martens sale!!!

The queue just after 10am - I'm standing somewhere behind the girl in the red jacket's group1

So this weekend just passed - Saturday 24th March myself, my boyfriend and hundreds of other people queued outside the Truman Brewery in London's fashionable Brick Lane awaiting the opening of the Dr Martens warehouse sale.  All shoes and boots for £25 each... no wonder the queue was so long!!

I planned on getting to the venue as early as possible, which didn't quite happen.  Still, after stopping for a coffee and travelling the short journey on the train to Shoreditch, we arrived to take our place in the queue, not too far from the doors.  About 20 minutes after we had arrived, the queue had tripled in size with chatter and smoke, the smell of breakfast baps and the occasional tourist stopping to snap a picture of the never ending line of stylish shoppers.

Inside the sale venue shortly after it opened.

The moment I got through the doors, I ran up the stairs to be greeted by a maze of brown boxes stacked neatly in groups of sizes.  I later found out that these neat stacks descended into a state of cardboard chaos! 

After tracking down the size 5's I got the boyfriend to look through boxes for me to hunt down some styles I might like -he's a good boy and knows his fashion so I trust him to pick out something great!  Box after box hunting for styles I wanted.  We actually both picked up the same red suede pair of shoes which made us laugh - he knows me too well!

Then I spotted them.  The white 3 hole shoes with grey flower tapestry that I'd lusted after since their release last year.  I went for the box and wrapped my arms tight round it to ensure no one could wrangle them away fro me.  I looked down at the label grinning, only to find they were a size 4... disaster!!!  So I try them on.  For £25 I can put up with slightly tighter Doc's.  Still, if they really didn't fit then I wasn't about to cripple my feet for love nor money!  I slipped my slightly bigger foot into the left shoe expecting to feel it pushing against the leather and making me howl with pain... nothing.  YES!!!!!!  

So I bought them.

I am definitely doing one of these sales again!

My beautiful new, slightly small 3 hole patterned shoes!

And the red suede shoes with iconic yellow stitching!