There Is A Happily Ever After With A Pair Of Shoes

The perfect pair of shoes are like the perfect guy, the upside being, it actually exists. 

When you try one on, it doesn't matter how big your hips are, because there is always one to complement you, to make you feel beautiful. I often find myself, just like many other women, shopping for a pair of shoes, when I feel low, as it is an immediate pick-me-up even if I just gobbled down a whole tub of Ben and Jerry's cookie dough. 

I know it is wrong to shop on an impulse, to get that spark of happiness, that you find speedily dies down, as soon as you pay the bill, and realize how much it is you have just spent. But, as soon as you sink your feet into those incredibly beautiful, crave-worthy, desirable shoes, all your worries seem to disappear, as they instantly push your butt up, make your legs look more toned, and those perfect ones even grab the attention away from your desperately-need-a-pedicure feet. 

Miss 120 Platform Ankle Boots - Christian Louboutin

"These Boots are made for walking..."

Perez Shine Flats - Forever 21

"Coco Chanel style, on the cheap."

Grosgrain bow-front pumps - Fendi

"These remind me of Blair Waldorf, complete with the bow."

Suede Cutout sandals - Miu Miu

"There is something so sexy about these lines across, they look like a cage, and who doesn't like to play hard to get?"

Litta Open-cut Pumps - Forever 21

"The elastic ensures a tailored fit. Bargain Alert. BEEP BEEP BEEP."

Fred Glitter Lace-up Shoes - Christian Louboutins

"The ideal tap-dancing shoes."

Heart Peep-toe Pumps - Alexander McQueen

"The heart design is so cheeky."

"After all, when Carrie Bradshaw got engaged to Mr. Big in Sex And The City, the movie, he didn't propose with a ring, but with a fabitty-fab pair of Christian Louboutins."

The Little Black Dress

Whether you’re a size 2 or a size 12, you can never go wrong with a Little Black Dress.

One of the first LBD's by Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

As I strut down the pavement, my heels clacking, I can't help but wonder, how the Little Black Dress came to be? Why does the dress sell like hotcakes, seven decades after Mademoiselle Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco" Chanel, first created in the 1920’s? What has enabled The Little Black Dress, my knight in shining amour, to remain in fashion for many decades?

So I drop everything, and trot back home to understand the Little Black Dress; the only dress in the history of fashion to appeal to different kinds of women, regardless of their age, shape, size, or what time they were born. It was the “go to” dress for a woman in the 20’s and still is in 2009. After all, the Little Black Dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in “Breakfast At Tiffany’s,” was auctioned off at Christie’s Auction House, for more than seventy thousand pounds.  You heard right, all for a dress.

The humorous thing is that although black was first considered the color of mourning, Mademoiselle Coco changed the face of black to being elegant, with just one dress. It’s cut, simplicity, and style, appeals to women all over the world. 

Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

Living in a world obsessed with being slim, I found out through science that black plays with eye since it does not reflect light, in any part of the optical spectrum, its reflection is less apparent. Seeing as our eyes, tells the shape of a thing by the help of its reflection, black’s reflection blends in with the background to the human eye, making the person’s appearance seem more like a two- dimensional object, which makes the person look more flat, and as a result much slimmer.

Betsey Johnson

It is the quintessential dress that overcomes every season, although continuously reinvented; it still maintains that essence of classiness. It is so simple but yet so chic.