Victoria’s Secret…Cute Booties For Fall!
Fall is just about here…my favorite season of all! And Victoria’s Secret is celebrating the season with their yummy boot collection. I could easily spend every penny I have on boots…. I could but I won’t. Girl’s gotta eat, you know.
But take a look at what Victoria is offering. Cute booties, Uggs, and some of the coolest long boots ever! Everything I’m seeing I’m loving at this point. And as always, pricing is not outrageous at Victoria’s Secret. In fact, there is a 20% sale on boots going on right now, excluding the forever popular Uggs Australia, and Fryes.
I’m drooling over these Colin Stuart Over the Knee Stretch Boots 
. And another of my favorites, also by Colin Stuart, are these too cute fold over booties 
Check out the Fall collection of boots at Victoria’s Secret...20% off on already great prices…you can’t beat it!
High Heels and Infertitity
Can wearing high heels hurt your fertility? According to some recent findings, wearing high heels makes women take on an unnatural stance which could affect their fertility.
When women wear high heels it causes a forward tilting of the pelvis which in turn can result in dangerous compression of internal organs.
This condition, visceroptosis, is what could cause problems with fertility.
Hmmm….I’m thinking there still needs to be more research on this before women give up on high heels.
Would Carrie Bradshaw Buy These Shoes For Her Baby?
I think these new “High Heels for Babies” thing is just a little too much weirdness, but I sure would love to ask Carrie Bradshaw what she thinks!
Have you see these yet? Little tiny high heels for babies, kid you not, ages 0-6 months. Called “Heelarious,” these heels come with a foam heel that is supposed to collapse if any weight is put on them, therefore ensuring that no little baby takes off walking in their very first pair of stilettos!
The main purpose of “heelarious” shoes is to make people smile. Ok. I don’t know…I guess they are harmless enough, but still seems a bit weird.
But somehow I can imagine Carrie Bradshaw pushing a baby stroller down the street with an adorable baby girl inside with the most stylish pair of heelarious heels sticking out of that baby carriage.
Would you / will you buy these for your baby?
Christian Dior Extreme Gladiator Platforms— Did You Get Yours Yet?
I am a little hesitant about these heels from Dior only because I worry that the the thick dark strap will horizontally cut off the leg-line, making legs look short and unflatteringly thick. What do you think?
But aside from that concern, I love how these shoes exude sexiness with an edge! They are available online for $770, and if that price is in your shoe budget, you better order a pair fast!
The Extreme Gladiator Platforms are made in Italy (sigh), and have 4.75″ heels. These will work in fall weather as well as summer season.
When it’s not suitable to wear heels
Okay. So this has kind of been bugging me. So last month I went to the Kanye West ‘Glow in the Dark’ concert. As expected all the kids donned colorful hoodies, tshirts, and of course, shutter shades. But why were girls wearing clubbing attire and four inch pumps??? Seriously, you’re at a concert where you’re gonna be on your feet the whole time! I myself like to dress comfortably to a show like this. I’ll put on a cute top with jeans and tennis shoes cause I know that I won’t be moving out of my front row spot the entire show and I’m sure as hell not going to be sitting down in a pit. And plus there will be pushing and it’s hard to maintain your balance and spot in high heels while trying to push back crazy concertgoers.
Ladies, I know you’re all trying to look pretty, but ditch the stilettos. Instead slap on a pair of sparkly flats or Coach tennis shoes. You’re gonna be in a pool of concert goers who only, and should only care about the music than who’s wearing what.
Stop sinking in your stilettos
I have a friend who is petrified of wearing her stilettos to a wedding. Or to lunch. Or anywhere she might have to walk on grass or dirt. It’s a shame, because she has been going to a lot of weddings and bridal showers and her best shoes have to stay at home.
We’ve all had it happen before, we’re walking across a lawn or slipping through a garden and the tip of the stiletto heel starts to sink into the ground. Throwing us off balance and (literally) keeping us on our toes.
Now there is a solution to the problem of the sinking stiletto.
A super-simple solution: you slip these clear (but slightly embellished) plastic caps on the bottom of your stiletto and you’ve got an instant sink stopper. The small, round base is all you need to keep your heel from sliding down into the mud, dirt, or grass. They come in many styles, from pastel flowers to the rhinestones shown here.
Women are also using them to bring a little extra balance to their stilettos, but be warned, they are plastic and designed to be disposable, so you can’t just put a pair on your shoes and think they’ll last as long as your shoes will. But they’re reasonably priced so you don’t have to save them for special occasions.
I recommend keeping a pair in your purse any time you’re going out in your stilettos – you never know when you’re going to go off the beaten path!
The Highest High Heels
The former champion of the high heel was a black 16cm heel by Christian Louboutin, tall and stately and beautiful. Sadly, it’s not the peak of the tall heels anymore. Dethroned by a towering 17cm (7 inch) platform stiletto (pictured). This gold and black high heel is more an artistic statement than a designer shoe, and it has fashionistas going nuts!
This is great for the petite girls. A 7-inch high heel can turn a 5′4″ lady into a 5′11″ candidate for the catwalk. Any woman can be tall. Of course, I’m 5′9″ barefoot, so this pair of heels will make me a solid 6′4″ amazon princess. Fine if I’m going out with a basketball player, but certainly not the best choice if I’m going out to dinner with my 5′10″ husband.
The popularity of these shoes, that won’t even be available until next month, is off the charts. There are waiting lists and people cannot get enough of the super-high heel.
True fashionistas are throwing caution to the wind and buying heels well into the 14-17cm range, towering on platforms and balancing like tightrope walkers. If you opt for a fasionable smaller-heeled alternative they’re known as a “selling” heel. A safer, lower version of the same heel that rocked the catwalk. A “selling” heel can be as low as 11cm. Still high, but not high enough for the fasion trendsetters.
Are you fashionista enough for 7″ of sexy, sultry, Louis Vuitton fashion? Or will you draw the line at 11cm “selling” heels that might be a little easier to walk in for those of you that actually need to walk places quickly. I’d hate to see someone rushing for a bus or a train in these heels.
Jimmy Choo brings high end high heels higher
While it has been the trend for shoe prices at boutiques to increase since around 2002, this year is finding the high end high heel higher than ever. It seems every major designer has the standard line of shoes ranging from $300 - $600 as they’ve had for the past few years, but now they have a super-high-end shoe as well.
Every line wants to have shoes that become exclusive, coveted more than any pair and Jimmy Choo is no exception. The way these companies create demand among already crazed fans is to make even more exclusive shoes by making them more expensive.
“Footwear is having its runway moment,” says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst for New York market research firm NPD Group. Designers are “raising the cachet of the brand by having one extravagant style, and that one makes the other pairs seem more reasonable.”
This means that high priced shoes aren’t going anywhere, because no matter the price (the shoes pictured in this post retail at $1,400) they’re selling, and ultimately the supply vs. demand is all that matters. For boutique owners as well as manufacturers.
Miuccia Prada recently was quoted as saying, “The obsession with handbags has finished for now. It feels over. It’s about shoes.”
This means these super-high end shoes are just another must-have accessory. It’s not enough to just have a pair of Jimmy Choos - the true high heel queens will be the ones sporting these super-heels, where they aren’t as likely to find someone else wearing the same style.
High Heels from Gucci - A dash of gold
Gucci has always been known for class and style, and this example from the spring/summer ‘08 line does not disappoint!
The “bootie” type shoe was big last fall. Especially that one lace up shoe-boot-heel in tweed and gray gracing the pages of Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom.
I don’t know about you, but all those grey tweed shoes found me wishing a brand would walk down the runway with a little pizazz, a little flair. Something that didn’t scream “dowdy librarian that happens to be wearing heels.” But still, something I could wear to work if I had an event to attend straight afterward. (Okay, maybe not an event…maybe just drinks with the girls, but I still want to look fab!)
Gucci has taken away the dowdy lace-up aspect of the fall and turned it into a more modern shoe that is unlike any other. With just the strip of gold in back, this can be worn to work and then transition smoothly to dinner or drinks after.
With the added support in the front for the top of your foot, you can get away with the daring height of the heel. You don’t feel like you’re walking on tiptoe when your whole foot is supported, which is why I think this is a great transition shoe that can be worn more often than a shoe with very little in the way of toe coverage.
I’m a big fan of a versatile shoe, and Gucci has really come through. Not only is it sexy, it’s professional. It can be almost anything depending on the clothing you pair them with.
Antonio Berardi Spring ‘08 Showstopper
In the Spring ‘08 collection of Antonio Berardi there was a bit of a surprise as a model walked down the catwalk in this heel-less heel.
For those of us who aren’t buying our heels at Nordstrom (at least not all the time) we are going to have to wait for these to hit the mainstream before buying. They are currently going for right around $1,100 - and being snatched up by stars like Uma Thurman.
While at first glance, these high heels might look impossible to walk in, if you think about the way your mother taught you to walk in heels (toe-heel vs. the clunking of heel-toe) you’re not really putting much pressure on your heel when you walk in high heels anyway.
These shoes are great for a date, or other activity where you won’t mind walking like a ballerina in toe shoes for a little bit, and the drama of the shoe is well worth the little bit of extra effort to keep your balance.
Just when you thought the high heel was becoming a classic that could not be redefined, the runway shows us you can have a high heel…without the heel.
This is one example of how toying with a classic can produce an interesting and wearable piece of art. Do you think you could walk in these sexy snakeskin high heels? Are they something you would be willing to wear out on the town?