I have 26 pairs of shoes in my closet. Heels, flats, boots, sneakers, flip-flops Still there are often mornings when I am getting dressed thinking, “I don’t have any shoes to match this.” How is hat possible? I don’t know, but I have a theory. Shoes can make or break an outfit. The right shoes can make you feel like a million bucks even if you’re naked, we know it and they know it, it’s like they speak to us. Maybe in some way, like trusted friends, they do.
Take the stripper shoe for example: platform 5+ inch stilettos. These “stripper shoes”, make your legs appear longer and can make you feel pretty damn sexy, but not easy to walk in. No, I am not, nor have I ever taken part in the exotic dancing profession (although I may have partaken in a pole dancing class or two!), but yes, I own a pair of stripper shoes because they ooze sexiness. But, if ever the thought to wear them to the office crossed my mind, all I would have to do is look at them and like stern parents they would give me “the look”, the one that says “over our recycled soles will you wear these to the office.”
I am a fan of Sex and the City’s character, Carrie Bradshaw. She loves love, life and shoes and says funny things like, “I took a $5 cab ride six blocks! These shoes pinch my feet, but I love them.” I can relate. I have watched season after season, purchased the movie and witnessed the hype of real-world women (and men) in love with her character. Through this, I have thought: “Wow, if the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, the way to a woman’s heart is through her shoes!”
Our love of shoes has become such a phenomenon that the world now has shoeologists: people who study the psychology of people and their shoes – why people wear certain shoes and what our shoes say about us. I have a Bachelors degree in Psychology and I do not remember a class in Shoeology, but I bet it would be really cool! So, these stories will be somewhat of an experiment in Shoeology – a journal of life’s incidences and the shoes that get me through them.
In the words of author and Shoeologist Karn Knutsen, I intend to: “Live a big life and wear cute shoes” and see what they say about me.
