Barefoot Contessa Mannequins
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by trainingheels under Chanel ShoesMORE Bergdorf windows! I’m obsessed I suppose, but when I went to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue to pick up my computer, I walked on the other side of the street and saw more lovely Bergdorf windows. What distressed me a bit there and at Club Monaco was that some of the mannequins didn’t have shoes on. People who are the window dressers! How can you avoid the opportunity to shod your mannequins’ feet???
Lovely boho chic summer-in-the-Hamptons mannequins, but where are the shoes??? Not even sandals? You can’t have me believing Upper East Side ladies go around the beach without gorgeous sandals on!
Poor shoeless mannequins. All those lovely sandals in the department store collection and you don’t get to wear any!
Luckily, some of the other windows sported these lovelies tickling the ivories’ pedals:
How delightful and punny is this bowling-over of Chanel shoes? Think I should try wearing a pair of the classic white ones with black toe caps to the new Blue Ribbon-food-sponsored bowling alley in Williamsburg? Wonder how they’d go over as strike-and-spare-in-style shoes.
Ooh, gorgeous tornado heel. Shall we start making all our shoes weather-themed? I’ll design one called, Why Does New York Feel Like Seattle This Summer? It’ll be a Wellie-style bootie with stormclouds, umbrellas, sad faces and permanent crystal raindrops.
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June 17th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Love your post. The shoes, indeed, are gorgeous. And wow, you’re so right, how in the world these beautiful dressed mannequins ended up
barefoot?!? Aren’t they living in the world of endless shoessibilities?
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June 17th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Yes, indeed, these shoes are gorgeous. And you are so right - How in the world these beautiful dressed mannequin remain barefoot?!? Aren’t they living in the land of endless shoessibilities?
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June 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I know this is very annoying, but I can’t help it.
“How can you avoid the opportunity to shod your mannequins’ feet???”
No no no. “Shod” is the past tense of the verb “shoe”. It’s like “shoe-ed”. That’s like saying “How can you avoid the opportunity to went to the beach???”
It should be “How can you avoid the opportunity to shoe your mannequins’ feet???”
June 17th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
We know who teaches high school English. (laughing.. .only playing with you. )
How are you all with the long dresses? I am struggling with that look. I LOVE the tornado heels, but what’s with the clear plastic stuff on the heel?
June 18th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Bronwyn - I am the same way with the phrase ‘an historic event’. The press picked that up some years ago & it still drives me nuts. This is US/American English, the ‘H’ is pronounced, use the correct article already…It’s become adopted into the general culture….we all have our little peeves.
Oh, and don’t even get me started on how the US press has destroyed the classic pronunciation of other words over the years (I think sometimes they get together & ‘agree’ to mangle a word to avoid a potential 2nd grade joke…examples that spring to mind are harassment/harass & Uranus - all of a sudden, common pronunciation no longer mattered).
June 18th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Mannequins without shoes always bother me. I think some were not designed to fit shoes properly but mannequin-makers should remedy this problem.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:55 am
These sculpted mannequins were designed to focus on the garment. They have a molded wedged foot that does not require a shoe. As a visual merchandising stylist this is a blessing, since it is always challenging when pulling shoes for a mannequin. Either they are low in inventory or they are not sellable once they are placed on a mannequin’s foot and usually the visual display department will be charged back for the use of the footwear. I agree that it looks more complete with a shoe, but the mannequin stands better with this molded wedged foot. What I do dislike are mannequins that were designed to wear a shoe but are displayed barefoot. If a retail store doesn’t sell shoes, then they should purchase generic shoes in one color that will work for a group of mannequins.