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A love affair with shoes
As I sat at my desk today, trying to locate the most important stories from April, May and June 2008, one of my colleagues stopped by to comment on my shoes. I can’t say that I blame her, they really are fabulous! Charles David is a great shoe designer. Unfortunately, he, like many of my other favorites (Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin), have become too expensive for my East Texas lifestyle, and thus, I’ve just stopped purchasing shoes. I can’t bear to lower my standards. There is a distinct difference between the elegant form of a well-designed shoe, and the consumer-grade footwear that one finds at Payless and DSW. Just take a look here, here and here. There is no way a $20 shoe can compete. In lieu of purchasing new additions, I’ve added to my current collection by perusing the closets of friends and family. My newest pair is a yellow-and-white-checkered lace-up pump that I got via my grandmother’s closet. She, like I, was a shoe fanatic in her youth, and being married to the manager of a New Orleans nightclub, she was able to purchase them to her heart’s content. As for me, I’m satisfied with the few pairs that I have, but look forward to the day where I can rekindle my love affair with the shoes of the 21st century.
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