--- title: Rep Mary Gay Scanlon Goes Viral With Mismatched Shoe Gaffe description: Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon went viral after sharing her very relatable fashion gaffe: not realizing her shoes were mismatched. canonical: https://time.com/5552619/congresswoman-mary-gay-scanlon-mismatched-shoes-viral/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-15T18:17:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:07.825Z og:title: Rep. 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Lucy McBath, D-Ga., Joe Neguse, D-Colo., Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, and Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., are seen during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Rayburn Building titled "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice," where acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker was questioned about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Friday, February 8, 2019\. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 08: From left, Reps. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., Joe Neguse, D-Colo., Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, and Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., are seen during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Rayburn Building titled "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice," where acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker was questioned about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Friday, February 8, 2019\. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Tom Williams—CQ-Roll Call,Inc.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 15, 2019 6:17 PM UTC Democratic [Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon](http://time.com/5323592/2018-elections-women-history-records/) has been busy with her new role as [a first-year congresswoman](http://time.com/5520372/2019-state-of-the-union-fashion/), something that she joked about on Twitter on Wednesday. Scanlon took to her Twitter this week to share a photo of the hilarious moment when she realized she had been wearing two different shoes for the day. Alongside two photos of herself, where viewers can clearly see Scalon wearing both a navy blue flat dress shoe and a black flat dress shoe in the same style, Scanlon tweeted: “People ask me all the time about the pace of things in DC. It’s 4:04PM and I just noticed that I have gone an entire day with two different shoes on.” Scanlon’s busy fashion mix-up was something the Internet found to be deeply relatable, with her tweet receiving over 28k likes and plenty of people who replied to the congresswoman’s post with sympathetic stories of their own footwear gaffes. > [](https://twitter.com/RepMGS/status/1105922687220764672) > [](https://twitter.com/BebeNeuwirth/status/1106242668273827842) > [](https://twitter.com/christinep401/status/1105981423654236161) > [](https://twitter.com/LaquishaAnthony/status/1106168996439752704) > [](https://twitter.com/wanderlust5/status/1106006586126827521) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5552619/congresswoman-mary-gay-scanlon-mismatched-shoes-viral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5552619/congresswoman-mary-gay-scanlon-mismatched-shoes-viral/"},"headline":"'Happens to the Best of Us.' 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