Style | Shoe blues
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Gotta love you some shoes. However, nothing quite cancels out the effect of fierce statement shoes like their owner engaging in frumpy caveman bevaviour.
Come on, that’s not lady-like, where’s your Diva training?
If you are Bold-Faced enough to even think that you are capable of carrying off sky-high stillettos, then you must to be Bad-Mind enough to endure it to the end!
This business of walking out a social engagement bare-footed, and toting your shoes behind you like you just barely lost a fight with them is not Sexy.
To avoid this and other similar shoe-sasters, consider the following when buying shoes:
1. Exercise some Fashion Sense
Of course love fashion, ain’t nobody telling you no, but sometimes you have to consider other factors to figure out if your feet can handle all that flyy for that particular event, depending on how long you are going to be standing in them.
When buying pointed-toe shoes (the ones that we refer to as ‘kick & stab’), it is recommended that you go one size bigger. This little trick goes for pointed-toe boots as well.
2. Buy your correct size.
If you measure your feet and your are a size 7, buy a size 7. Don’t try to stuff your feet in a 5.5 because the joke will be on you at the end of the night.
Be sure to try on, and strut your stuff in, both sides of the pair of shoes at the store, as it is not uncommon for one foot to be larger than the other. It is said that feet swell during the course of the day when you are on them, so it is a good idea to purchase them, statement shoes especially, later during the day to accommodate this swelling.
Insoles are also a good idea; in addition to making you feet feel comfy, they can also help fit your feet into shoes that may be a half size to a size too big.
By the way, that rule about going one size lower when purchasing open-toed shoes is a lie. Regardless of how expensive that shoe is, nothing looks cheaper than toes hanging out the front of a shoe -claw style, or a crusty heel hanging off of some sick sling-backs.
3. Wear smartly
Even shoes have a time and place. If you work for an advertising company or any such company where creativity is encouraged, then by all means rock your multicoloured pumps to work. I mean who can resist some super high pumps in a royal purple with a pair of skinny jeans and a white shirt… sigh…
But if you are going to,… say perhaps a Carnival fete and intend to be jumping to the sweet soca sounds, then you definitely need to be wearing something a more practical and comfortable.
Although I would not be caught dead in these because of my height, for practicality sake I propose those funky ballet slippers. If you’re tall enough to carry it off, and you wont get lost in a crowd without your stilletos then these are a perfect option to wearing sneakers and looking like you are about to take a sprint down the runway.
4. Practice your walk
If you are going to buy statement stilettos, know now how to walk in them. It’s never a good idea to wear your shoes the same night, especially if you know that you are going to be standing for hours. That is just looney behaviour.
Try to get these shoes sometime before (at least a week), and wear them around at home so as to get your feet accustomed to the feel of the shoe, and to understand where you can and cannot wear them.
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