The parable of the climbing shoes

The fit is very important, obviously, so you try on a million different shoes which each only come in a single color. You want a pair of red climbing shoes?  Too bad.  You'll probably end up with end up with grey ones because all the other models self-eliminate by not fitting your tiny heel or gigantic toes.  So it caught me off guard when someone asked if we had done this on purpose:

As if!

It seems to me lately that the less one tries to conform one's foot to a certain color climbing shoe, the more one allows for beautiful yet unexpected coincidences to arise from the color scheme.