It seems the first pair of shoes are all important to formulating your future style choices. Your shoe ID in fact.That first fitting is a blue print for all that follows on the footwear scene.The first pair of shoes I recall in my life did not belong to me at all but to my first and most treasured oversized dolly - the big blonde and whimsically named Rosebud (and I hadn't even seen Citizen Kane - in fact I don't think it had been made! ) The doll with the waxy rubbery smell of old vintage toys and a pouty face that was somewhere between a smile and sulk. The shoes she came with were classic white shiny and flat, made of flexible plastic with a neat little strap that popped over the ankle to secure them in place and a tiny stepped heal beneath, with which to navigate the world of my bedroom carpet and eiderdown. She wore these little gems under a silver and white wedding gown - not the most romantic of nuptial attire but nevertheless pure glistening virginal and purest white peeping out from under the silver lace hem of her floaty dress like two scummy frosted meringues. Rosebud's wide waxen rosy feet tucked sweetly into little lily white saucer shoes....That's a memory that makes for a dolly mixture of a shoe story n'est pas ?
Til tomorrow my little shoe -ettes
Tootsie Footfellow thinks...Thank goodness for Rosebud, for many would be lost without her...the shoe ID is ever so important. All the hops, skips and jumps need to by paired by a funky style number for their action, whether it be on the bedroom carpet or on the beach.
ReplyDeleteRightly said Footfellow. I remember a very glitzy pair of pink strappy shoes that sparkled throughout Madam Butterfly's dazzling operatics. After all, a shoe is never just a shoe - but a surface on which to start your journey.
ReplyDeletePoodle fellows all here's to many more hop skips and jumpety jumps for the footsie future my dears. May the sole be with you.
ReplyDeleteAnd may the sole be with you too! Footsy wootsie woo.
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