Hello Stilletto!!!

There comes a time when a girl has to forget her back pain and throw her orthotics to the wind. It's time for a night out in beautiful shoes, and since there aren't many occasions or locations to wear them, the ladies in my tap-dancing class decided that once a month we'd take off the taps and put on the stillettos, head for someplace fun where (this is important) we could SIT DOWN, have a cocktail or a glass of wine, and show off our best footware.

So this month we went to Greg Massett's wine-tasting room for flights of Syrah and Cabernet, pizza and chocolate. Yum!

Tim from Denyse's Shoes came along and dutifully acted as Footographer. (New location: in with the Shopkeeper at 32nd & Summitview--go see him.)

It was difficult to decide on "Best of Shoe" but these came the closest! First, Denise's: taxi-cab yellow wool flannel! Black patent trim! Stilletto heels that are impossible to walk on! And FEATHERS! Who could ask for anything more in a shoe? We were all going to buy Denise a drink for winning the contest but I think after a couple glasses of Massett wine we forgot that little detail. These are J. Crew.

Cute ballet flats!!! Shana, the new Mom (with a 5 week old) celebrated her night out in these little print jobs that were fabulicious & probably the only actually comfortable shoes in the room. They looked darling on her.

These are mine, one of the pairs I got in Las Vegas last month at a ramalama-ding-dong of a shoe sale. They're aqua & blue suede platforms with blue roses & 4" heels. Love 'em! Have nothing to go with 'em but who cares? They're Jessica Simpsons from Macy's in LV.

These were Lucy's offering to the partay: patchwork leather in autumn colors of yellow, bronze, orange, & brown. We decided they reminded us all of a jacket we once owned in the '70s. Charming! Naughty Monkey, if I remember right. Terri our Tapping Teacher wore some true-to-life Jungle Baby shoes--sort of an animal print mixed with a reptilian texture & rope soles. Tarzan! I can see these swinging from a vine somewhere. BCBG.

Now all we need is a premier viewing of Sex & the City.....