YTuesday, August 15, 2006
I'm a shoe addict
My thing for shoes had been with me a long time. At school I defied the nuns and their no-heels-above-one-and-a-half-inches rule. So right as soon as i graduated, i spent almost half of my allowance buying the shoes that gives me my sense of style. haha ( even if i have to starve myself )
Shoes give you instant uplift. It's surgery without the knife. Heels transform the way you walk and carry yourself. You come over all womanly because you are forced to stick your butt out in one direction and your breasts in the other. They give you inches. They give you power. They transform you in a quick, easy way that no other item of clothing or make-up can. Shoes make you feel like who you want to be. You catch sight of them winking in a window or beckoning from a magazine and think that if you had them your life would be different.
I remember Carrie in Sex and the City saying that if she hadn't spent so much money on shoes she could have bought an apartment. Funny but true. And shoes are my friends. They would take me places. I could walk thousand miles and not minding a bus ride but i couldn't take a chance not having to drop by a cute shoe store when pay day comes. You see the beauty of shoes is that you are never too fat for them, whatever the time of the month. It is a deep and primal thing, shoe obsession. Shoes create an illusion that you grow to depend on.
Breaking my foot not only meant that I couldn't walk, couldn't exercise and got fat, it meant that I was desexualised. With proper shoes you can't forget your femaleness. If every day you have to look down at Birkenstock-style shoes and this gaze spans three seasons, you become desperate. You feel so ugly. So with fashion, i never take my shoes for granted. It has to go with the outfit. This is what makes us different from the male species. We can wear different colors of shoes, yes even the red ones!
I can vividly remember my first romantic date with JC. I wore this glamour pair of shoes, he kept on lookin' at it. I couldn't find myself to ask him why. And congratulate me for last night i was able to do so and he said
'i've always loved you and your shoes' Very well said. haha
So for all you women out there never be afraid to wear your style! Your pair of shoes will surely take you somewhere magical.. believe me.
Trivia: How many times did i mention the word 'shoes' in this entry?
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