Amber McNaught writes,,,
When I read that Celine Dion apparently owns 3,000 pairs of shoes earlier this week, I have to say, I wasn't particularly surprised. In fact, I didn't even write about it here at Shoewawa because I figured the whole "Multi-millionaire superstar has more stuff than the rest of us" thing wouldn't exactly come as a shock to the rest of you, either.
And I admit it: if I was a multi-millionaire superstar, with a closet the size of my current house (Have you seen Mariah Carey's? That's the kind of size I'm aiming for.) I'm thinking I'd probably have a whole lot of shoes, too. I'd also have a lot of dresses, handbags, and possibly a nice car or two. And a pony. Wouldn't we all, in the scenario whereby we were suddenly wealthy beyond our wildest dreams, buy much more of the things we're interested in? I think so.
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Our lovely Erin leaves us today for pastures new. Erin writes...
It all started with a pair of boots. Chloe's boots from A/W 2006, to be specific. What followed was an eighteen month love affair with shoes of every kind, albeit one with a particular fondness for Mary Janes and peep-toes. The last year and a half has brought giddy heights, heartbreaking tragedy and a LOT of ugly shoes in between. It has been a truly wonderful journey, but the time has come for me to hang up my hat (yes, I own accessories other than shoes) and bid you all a fond farewell. I want to thank you for your comments, compliments, witty banter and for loving shoes as much as I do. I will miss you more than you can know.
Erin x
If you'd like to keep up with Erin's continued adventures, you can find her online "home" at Mirkwood Cottage!
Now, I've never really been one for the Second life bandwagon, having, y'know, a life, but you can't really ignore its huge effect with everything from fashion stores opening in it, to films being previewed there first. Naturally, should you be a player of the game, you want your character to be dressed to the nines, all the better to snag that second life boyfriend, so you want to keep your avatar togged out well. Little did I know a brief investigation into the stylish side of Second Life would bring up about a million web sites and stores dedicated to the style, everything from outlets to blogs just about this phenomenon.
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I found this story from the Houston Chronicle this morning interesting. In an attempt to find out whether women's shoes really give out the messages we think they do, researchers set up a special "man panel". A group of women were asked to stand behind a curtain, with only their feet showing. On either side of them, they were asked to place a pair of shoes they felt best represented their personalities. It was then up to the men to write down what they thought the women's shoe choices said about them.
Of course, the men got it spectacularly wrong, guessing that a 27-year-old marketing executive with a penchant for sky-diving was, in fact, a 50-year-old divorced mother working in accounting. Their guesswork on the other women was equally out of place, leading to the conclusion that what we think our footwear says to the world could be far removed from what it actually says.
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So, day ten on the new years fitness slog and have I been successful? Well, I've joined a new gym, and actually been a couple of times. I've decided to only eat low fat frozen yogurt and say goodbye to Ben & Jerry's and I've got myself a pair of Skorpion Quadlines to try out, to amp up my fitness regimen a notch. There are a lot of different shoes that claim to boost your fitness out there, but the Quadlines, £35 from JJB Sports have the added edge of actually being purely designed for exercise, not just trainers with a weird heel put on (M.B.T's we're talking about you). The shoes are a lot heavier than I expected, and extremely large as well; but once you have them strapped to your feet you feel like an earthbound Spiderman, with no surface out of your reach.
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Lesley James writes...
At this time of year, it’s a simple and quick fix to buy cosy, girly slippers as a Christmas gift. For those of us with size 2 feet (34) and under, this is not an easy proposition, though – and don’t dare suggest kids' slippers to me! Children’s slippers are, in the main, emblazoned with Barbie, butterflies or look like glove puppets!
I’m not talking about mule type slippers, or flip floppy things, which are fairly easy to buy. I am talking about real, girly, fluffy slippers, which keep your toes and heels warm on cold winter mornings, and whose soles stand up to trips to the garden! So where do you buy grown up slippers in size 2 that keep your feet warm yet don’t make you look like an escapee from Loony Tunes?
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Gemma Cartwright writes...
It's ironic considering my footwear collection reaches triple figures that I've spent the last couple of weeks turning up to work in the same two pairs of boots, both of which are well past their best. In fact they're worn down to the point of falling apart. I'm sure I'm not alone in finding buying boots the most difficult thing on earth. It's not for the usual reason of ill-fitting calf sizes (though I do have ankle 'issues') but more that I get so attached to my well-worn old styles that I find myself frantically searching for the exact same boots again, be they £12 black mod boots from Primark or £90 fluffy-lined leather slouchy boots from Neet. Because I'm rarely out of dresses, even in winter, Boots are a real staple for me, and as such I'm quite hard to please...
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