Put On Your Training Heels!
posted by: freePOrnaoa in Christian Dior Shoes, Flats, Foot Health and Fitness, French Sole Shoes, General, Platforms, Tory Burch Shoes on November 7th, 2008
Hey, foot fashionistas! There’s a new set of tootsies in town. I’m TrainingHeels, and I’ll be sharing my secrets for keeping it stylish on a budget, sassy in boring business zones, and comfortable and upright on difficult terrain. I split time between San Francisco, LA and New York, so I’m always prepared for a walking, dining, driving, stairclimbing, running to an appointment, see and be seen challenge. (More on my tips for walking, driving and dancing properly and stylishly in each city in a later post).
I have an interesting shoe heritage, having grown up in my parents’ shoe sales and shoe repair shops, watching the most beautiful Prada heels and Gucci loafers shuffled in bruised and broken and paraded out proud and gleaming, good as new. If you’ve got repair questions, I’m your gal, and if I don’t have the answer, I will inquire with the best of cobblers.
I’ve had the unfortunate diagnosis from a host of podiatrists (I kept hoping one was wrong and seeking another opinion!) of having plantar fasciitis, also known as the bubonic plague that wipes out your stilettos in one fell swoop. I haven’t let that stop me from participating in the art of shopping for and wearing delectable foot candy.
First off, I stretch my feet regularly and roll them over a foot massager nightly. For the long dashes across the Meatpacking District’s cobblestones or Russian Hill’s slopes on nights out, I place a pair of Scoop ballets, Born arch support flats, French Sole leopard slippers or Tory Burch Revas on my feet (which one depends on how big my bag is that night) with fantastic Pedag insoles, then put the 4-inch curvy Chloe black leather crosshatch-strapped toe cleavage stilettos that have been dangling from my hands back on. How many of you ladies do this bait-and-switch on going out nights or even before and after work? Here are some of my bait-and-switchers:
If you’re dedicated to funky statement shoes that take the outfit’s cake like I am, you’re in luck, because tis truly the season of the shoe. “It seems like the shoe is really the fetish item that has taken the place of the ‘it’ bag,” Mickey Boardman of Paper Magazine heralded at the closing of the Spring 2009 fashion shows. “It’s all about who has the sickest shoe.”
Hallelujah! The shoes at the shows were incredibly creative and I’m sure some of that will trickle down to pret-a-porter and bargain basement!
Even the fiercest Iman would need a set of training heels to teach her how to walk in these Spring 2009 Dior embellished platform heels with a fertile goddess figure on the heel. You can’t be lukewarm on these babies if you love shoes! So what do you think? Would you wear them? If not, because of the height, the likelihood of snagging someone’s dress on the heel, the appearance, or something else? I’m not saying what I think of them till you do!
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March 25, 2009 at 8:41 pm, The Shiny Legwear Craze | ShoeBlog said:
[...] when you see legwear? Shoes, of course! And one of the pairs that Bill comments on are the famed Dior Goddess heels. Yes, apparently people (are still) really wearing those things. Here they are to refresh your [...]
November 08, 2008 at 2:00 pm, galligator said:
If the goddess heels ever show up anywhere on clearance in the $400 -$500 (Any predictions on what these will retail for?) range, I'll be sorely tempted, even if I only wind up making up a reason to wear them once per year. Maybe it would be a reason to go out of my way to celebrate the solstices? They really are delicious to look at.
November 08, 2008 at 1:52 pm, Shoe lover said:
I agree with GiGi all the way!!!!
November 08, 2008 at 1:34 pm, evie said:
These shoes are beautiful and a work of art. I would wear them everywhere. Of course, I would need lessons on how to walk in them.
They are just exquisite and should be shown off.
November 08, 2008 at 11:47 am, trainingheels said:
So here’s the thing: I want the goddess figure to be a darker color so that it’s perhaps not as ostentatious, though I’m not sure what color and how that would work with the gold straps and animal print. But as art, yes, I adore them. I just don’t know if I can wear them without laughing at myself. But perhaps being able to laugh at yourself and not take your fashion choices so seriously is the first, most difficult step toward couturing yourself!
Thanks for the welcome! I really look forward to being here and hearing from everyone.
November 08, 2008 at 9:48 am, GiGi said:
I certainly wouldn’t wear these beauties to run errands in a town of 8000 people, but I’d definitely wear them to a nice gallery or exhibit opening, or anywhere else where my sole (no pun intended) obligation was to do nothing more than watch everybody admire the art on my feet.
November 08, 2008 at 2:09 am, twinkletoes said:
I'm betting you have all kinds of insights into shoes-as-art Ms.Heels. Looking forward to hearing more!
November 08, 2008 at 2:03 am, galligator said:
I'm the same as Ray. I don't think I'd ever feel like I had an occasion to wear them. But, for shear artistic value, I'd be mighty tempeted if they showed up on sale after season somewhere like bluefly. They are funky & gorgeous & all goddess-y, just not really practical for runnning errands in a town of 8000 people.
November 08, 2008 at 12:59 am, ray said:
I would get the last pair just to display in my house as art. My God the shoe looks like it belongs in a fine arts museum.