MikeL2,
are you quite sure you don't mean Ecco boots and walking sandals?
I adore the walking sandals myself,
and I miss the Ecco Shaker shoes, good-looking and hardworking.

And talking of emotional subjects,
I just heard one on a news-radio soundbite:

cannabis versus opioids for pain relief.
This in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
which has just legalized RECREATIONAL cannabis
as well as medical cannabis.

Count on Americans to make a business competition out of it.
Meanwhile, casualties mount from overdoses amongst other things.
It's sickening.