Pabder

3ima and I were at Asian Eye Institute at Trinoma at around 11 for her consult with Dr. Harvey Uy.  After we had had lunch at Super Bowl, she was still more than ten turns away, so we went shopping.

The most formal comfortable shoes that I could find.

One of the stores we went to was Pabder.   We snubbed the local shoe stores, even Via Venetto, because my experience is that local shoes, though stylish, tend to be uncomfortable, not durable, especially for our flat feet. I was in the market for a comfortable black shoe, say, moccasins, one that I could wear to Fort Santiago and the National Museum, then to a souvenir shop and Barbara's Restaurant.

So I tried on a pair, and almost bought it until I realized that it might be too low, like the pair of what my friend calls 'glorified tsinelas' that I got from Sanuk.  So I'm sending a photo of the Pabder to my PT-cousin ADG.

I always thought that, with a name like Pabder, that the brand was local.  It turns out to be an Italian brand, with the Italian price of P 3,000+.