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fluffymark) wrote2002-09-11 02:15 pm
fluffymark) wrote2002-09-11 02:15 pm
Boots!
It is a fab day. My new boots arrived this morning. Yay! :)
I ordered 'Pentagram Boots' from Attitude Clothing. Normally they'd be way out of my price range, but they were knocking 57 pounds off their normal price, which made them very affordable. They're very shiny, are 'gladiator' style and have many buckles, and have a slightly tacky looking pentacle embossed on the front, and are mine, all mine!! Mwahahahaha! *happybootssmile*
Now thats interesting. I wanted to make sure I wasn't talking total rubbish by insisting the design on my boots is a pentacle rather than the supposed pentagram implied by the boots' name, I did a websearch. And it looks like there is a huge difference of opinion on what the difference between a pentacle and a pentagram is. One person claims the pentacle points up, the pentagram points down. Another claims the pentacle has a circle around it, the pentagram doesn't. Yet another claims the pentagram is the actual symbol design, whereas the pentacle is an object which is of that shape. And yet another claims the pentagram is the design, yet the pentacle is the wiccan name for the same design.
Anyone have any idea which definition is correct? My new boots have an upward pointing star, with a circle around, which is an actual object. So by most of the above definitions it's a pentacle.
Not that i'm all bothered which it is - i'm not usually this pedantic. I'm very curious to find out now.
Whatever the design is, I had to try them on straight away, just to make sure they fitted (a potential pitfall of online ordering). They fit! Hurrah! But slightly oddly - they're tight around the sole, which is fine, but may lead to problems if i wear them for long periods of time. Slightly more worryingly, they're very loose around the ankle - my ankles are very thin, and even on the loosest buckle hole, they flop around a bit like wellies. I'm going to have to punch a tighter buckle hole on a few of the buckles and then they should fit fine. *smallsmile*
Yay for boots! Now all a need is a good excuse to wear them to something.
I ordered 'Pentagram Boots' from Attitude Clothing. Normally they'd be way out of my price range, but they were knocking 57 pounds off their normal price, which made them very affordable. They're very shiny, are 'gladiator' style and have many buckles, and have a slightly tacky looking pentacle embossed on the front, and are mine, all mine!! Mwahahahaha! *happybootssmile*
Now thats interesting. I wanted to make sure I wasn't talking total rubbish by insisting the design on my boots is a pentacle rather than the supposed pentagram implied by the boots' name, I did a websearch. And it looks like there is a huge difference of opinion on what the difference between a pentacle and a pentagram is. One person claims the pentacle points up, the pentagram points down. Another claims the pentacle has a circle around it, the pentagram doesn't. Yet another claims the pentagram is the actual symbol design, whereas the pentacle is an object which is of that shape. And yet another claims the pentagram is the design, yet the pentacle is the wiccan name for the same design.
Anyone have any idea which definition is correct? My new boots have an upward pointing star, with a circle around, which is an actual object. So by most of the above definitions it's a pentacle.
Not that i'm all bothered which it is - i'm not usually this pedantic. I'm very curious to find out now.
Whatever the design is, I had to try them on straight away, just to make sure they fitted (a potential pitfall of online ordering). They fit! Hurrah! But slightly oddly - they're tight around the sole, which is fine, but may lead to problems if i wear them for long periods of time. Slightly more worryingly, they're very loose around the ankle - my ankles are very thin, and even on the loosest buckle hole, they flop around a bit like wellies. I'm going to have to punch a tighter buckle hole on a few of the buckles and then they should fit fine. *smallsmile*
Yay for boots! Now all a need is a good excuse to wear them to something.
*YAY*
As for you having thin ankles...well, we all know how to resolve that problem...SIROK!!!!!
*Grin*
There's never a reason not to wear great shoes. You don't need an excuse damnit. Wear them. Dress up for work. Stun them with your style and grace dearie! Go on! You know you want to parade them as soon as possible!
Re: *YAY*
Only after i've fixed the bucklehole problem. I'm not wearing them out of the house until i've done that, or they'll look silly (and probaly kill my feet if i walk anywhere). I need something sharp and pointy to make holes with! :)
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Having said that, the definitions at dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=pentagram) all define a pentagram as the same as a pentacle (and if you look up pentacle (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=pentacle) they don't even seem to agree on what that is!
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I'm not at all impressed by the dictionary.com definitions. They basically look as if they have no clue what a pentacle/pentagram is, vaguely something with 5 points and the two words are synonymous? Not what I'd call a dictionary definition. And one of the pentacle definitions is stupid - a pentacle is *not* a six pointed star. Pent- means *5*!!!! A six pointed star is a star-of-david, or a Hexagram. Or possible even a Hexacle, but that sounds silly.
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I've come to the conclusion that there are no set meanings for 'pentagram' and 'pentacle'. People have occasionally implied to me that whilst one of them (can't remember which) can be used by Perfectly Respectable Christian Alchemists to represent the five elements, or the five wounds of Christ, or lots of other things that come in fives, the other one shouldn't. But symbols - especially occult and religious ones - are notoriously fluid in meaning, and so is the language of symbols. Anyone who tells you there is a simple fixed difference between the two words or shapes or meanings is only telling you part of the story