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Shoe Tapping Tunes.....

The Saint Alvia Cartel - Don't Wanna Wait Forever

Tim Armstrong - Into Action

The Fratellis - Flathead

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Shoelover

Shoes Behaving Badly

Like anything else in the world, shoe can be used for both good and evil.

Security guard 'hid cash in shoe'
BBC News, UK -Jul 30, 2007
A security guard stole £20000 over the course of two years by hiding bank notes in his shoes, a court has heard. Mathew Dixon, 21, of Ynyshir, Rhondda...

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Shoelover

Canadian Politicians and their Shoes

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Why Do Finance Ministers Always Wear New Shoes to Deliver a Budget - Ottawa Citizen

The article says it all, but if Shoelover was Minister Sorbara, Shoelover probably wouldn't tell anyone that Shoelover wore a size 7.  Good thing he is rich...

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Shoelover

Members of the US Federal Judiciary

Feel free to use that 10% off discount code, whizbang, as well when you make a purchase at Shoe Stor, you characters have been pretty good readers too.

Just don't be blaming me for backing up the US court system................

Remember, cardboard shoe boxes are for public defenders, clear shoe boxes are for the guardians of the Constitution

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Shoelover

For the Last Time!

I have recieved approximate 1321 emails asking me if the model in the Sergio Rossi picture is Shoelover.  For the last time, it is Shoelover, from the neck down only.  The orginially gave the job to some supermodel-wanna-be-who-was-the-photographers-daughter and it turned out she was 4 months pregnant at the time of the photo shoot.  But a contract is a contract

Not wanting to reinvent the Demi-Moore-Prengant-on-the-cover-of-Vanity-Fair,  I got the call and the $100 bucks for being the body double.

And the answers to the most popular questions that I recieved in regards to the picture are:

1. Yes it was cold;

2. Yes, everyone was staring at me;

3. No, my thighs are not airbrushed; and

4. None of your business you pig!

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Shoelover

How much is too much?

So Shoelover, in an effort to put away her summer shoes, has decided to take her precious ones to a local shoemaker for a 'tune up.' Usually, I pay somewhere in the range of $20 to clean up my little shoe angels before storing them away in my signature clear shoe boxes. Sometimes I pay more for a new heel or sole. A pair of open-toed high stilettos that I wore most often this summer was by some obscure designer; it has a metallic heel but the shoe was made out of the delectable soft, ecru-colored leather. Needless to say, some of the leather near the bottom of the shoe became scuffed. (I blame absent-minded men who bump into my precious shoesies as well as uneven pavement -- see my rant on an earlier post....) Regardless, I wanted them fixed. Anyway, my shoe doctor sympathetically tsk-tsked when I showed him the pair. He's always very sympathetic (and complimentary on my shoe taste!) Dr. Shoe's prognosis was grim.

"This cannot be dyed the same color, Shoelover," he lamented in a lovely Italian accent. I pouted.
"However, there is something you can do...." As I perked up, he showed me some different colored dyes and suggested that my lovelies could be resurrected if I dyed then vanilla. The cost, along with a new sole, would be $60. The pair cost me $250 at a designer sample sale a couple of years ago. I decided to take the plunge. They'll be ready next week. But this experience does beg the question: how much is too much to save a pair of shoes? Should Shoelover have saved that money and used it to help purchase another pair of shoes? When does one let go?  Your thoughts, as always, are much appreciated.

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Shoelover

$100,000 worth of Shoes!

No, that is not what Shoelover has in her closet, it is the estimated value of the shoes used in the film "In Her Shoes"

"We needed about 200 pairs to fill the closet, and you figure $500 a pair - well, you just can't go and  spend $100,000 on shoes, so you do what you can," she said, adding that she and the film's set designers relied on costume rental companies as well as loans from designers like Chanel, Christian Louboutin and Sigerson Morrison. They had to content themselves with a lone screen credit. "A lot of people lent us stuff," Ms. Carbonell said, recalling the negotiations. " 'Can you promise us a mention in the film?' 'No.' 'Can you do a close-up on the box?' 'No.' "

Gathering $100,000 worth of shoes, could Sophie de Rakoff Carbonell, the costume designer for the flick, have a better job?

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Shoelover

Take 2: Appropriate attire? Do we care?

So, obviously some of us do care... Shoelover would like to clarify: I think chic and sexy is always in. And while I have been known to wear a short skirt with heels, it was a tailored skirt in a muted color with a matching jacket. And even that ensemble I didn't wear that often. Shoelover used to take some liberties on casual Fridays but that's about it.

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Shoelover

Hmm. Appropriate Attire? Do we care?

According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, women need to dress their age. Shoelover has always been of the mindset that one should dress in clothes (and shoes) that fit their size not their age. Since I'm 31 and work out, I believe that grants me, Shoelover, the right to wear whatever I damn well please.

When I worked in the office I wore high heels and short skirts and no one ever complained. I think women should wear tasteful jeans and stilettos in their 50s -- so long as it is fashionable. I love pairing my low cut dolce and gabanna jeans, with a faux pink croc around the waistband, with pink high heels.  Forty is the new thirty -- or so I've heard. I suppose that makes 30 the new 20.  Your thoughts?

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Shoelover

PS - Shoelover is taking the day off tomorrow to pamper herself. Going for a brand new French mani/pedi. I'll take pictures of it with my new shoes tomorrow.

Do Shoes and Politics Mix?

Not for Condi Rice they don't.  Apparently she was confronted by an angry co-shopper who could not understand why the Madame Secretary was shopping for shoes while New Orleans was sinking.  Having said that Shoelover was of the understanding that the Secretary of State was in charge of foreign affairs, not internal affairs (a la Secretary of the Interior).  Now if Gale Norton had been shopping for Ferragamo during the Katrina fallout, that would have been something different.  Hell, if Secretary Norton had been shopping at Ferragamo period it would have been newsworthy (Excuse me, do these come in a Birkenstock.  No Madame Secretary, I am a afraid Ferragamo does not make a "Birkenstock".)

My guess is that Condi picked up a pair of the new sexy Ferragamo hip waders before jetting off for the Gulf Coast.

Keep beautiful

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Shoelover