Showing posts with label shoe-topia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoe-topia. Show all posts

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Portal to Shoe-topia

Those of you who knew me in my prime may remember that I had a love affair with shoes. I had nice long legs. My calves were perfect, my ankles sublime. My perfectly painted toes would lead the eye to my strappy, wrappy shoes with perhaps a sparkling ankle bracelet to tease the eye. And the spike of the heel, of course. They say that jewelery makes the outfit, but oh, no, my darlings, it's always been the shoes.

But, alas, in December of 1999 I devastated the bones in my right foot and ankle (a tale for another time, my dears), and after rods and pins and bone grafts I was told I could never wear high heels again. And as we all know, flats are, well, flat.

Then as I got older, I became quite, well, plump, shall we say. And my calves and ankles were no longer svelte. My right calf forever remained a shadow of its former self, and the corresponding ankle stayed swollen and misshapen. Occasionally I would disobey the physician and wear again a delightful pair of shoes that would make men turn their heads. But, to my woe, it was no longer admiration I saw in their eyes.

And then, then, I was aghast to discover that, one night while I was sleeping, the Fancy Feet Fairy had stolen my feet, only to replace them with Old Woman feet! No, NO, it could not be! Yellowed nails and crusty heels! Where, oh, where, had my youthful feet gone? Now even strappy flats and a golden toe ring could not bring back that echo of my former beauty! It was nothing less than a travesty! My love affair with shoes lie wounded in the corner, whimpering its last!

But before that love affair could take its last breath, the Sexy Shoe Sprite came to visit. With a PHOTO of a pair of sexy shoes! Photographs! I could still have beautiful feet and legs in sexy shoes, I just needed photographs of the shoes to tease my imagination!

And so, it begins. Periodically, I will post to my blog a photograph of shoes that I adore. They may be sexy spikes, or flat wraps, or basic boots, but they will all be ME. They will all be shoes that I would actually wear! And your job? All YOU have to do is imagine them on the seductive feet I formerly flourished at the end of my long svelte legs. (Okay, some of you will have to use a lot of imagination, but work with me here!)

Voilà! Feast your eyes then envisage my beauty!
by Alexander McQueen

Ankle Wraps & Cuffs

I JUST DISCOVERED ANKLE WRAPS! ALL BY THEIR OWN SELVES! OH, MY WORD!
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