by Laura Conaway

Our pal Dan Pashman shot this video on Thursday in Manhattan. Pashman writes:

On my way to work, I came across a long line. A really long line. A line that would make Walt Disney jealous. There's an unemployment office near my office, and a few months ago there was a pretty long line there for a job fair. So I figured this was probably for another job fair.

I was wrong. The line was for a Jimmy Choo sample sale.

 

As the women in the line were happy to explain to me, Jimmy Choo shoes are very desireable. (They were made especially popular by the ladies of "Sex and the City.") Now Jimmy makes more than shoes, and like all designers, when he goes to convince stores to carry his new lines, he shows them samples. When those samples become outdated, they get sold off at bargain-basement prices, like $75 for shoes or $150 for a bag.

And as I later found out, a Jimmy Choo sample sale is especially exciting. So exciting that a woman I spoke to who was almost at the front of the line said she'd been waiting for nearly 2 1/2 hours.

I filmed the line and did not speed the footage up, in order to give you the most accurate possible picture of just how long people will wait to buy shoes.