Doesn't every girl dream of owning a pair of red shoes? Deep in the psyche (or maybe not so deep, actually) are those ruby slippers magicking Dorothy back home to Kansas; those red ballet shoes transporting Moira Shearer to the heights of dancing ecstasy... (Well, ok - transporting her over the balcony to a gruesome death but I try not to focus on that part of the tale...)
Do you know, until last weekend I had never owned a pair? I think my mother perhaps didn't think that a nice girl ought to be seen in such flagrantly provocative footwear (although she was quite happy for me to wear an assortment of other red clothing). This is rather sad really, as red was always my favourite colour.
Since I've been old enough to buy my own shoes, I have still never owned any red ones. I've never found any which came up to the dream, I suppose. Until the new high-heeled, pointy toed dream of a court shoe by RoSa Shoes that is. Oh yes. The thinnest and curviest of heels, the pointiest and longest of toes, the loveliest of Italian leathers. I am, quite simply, in red-shoe heaven!
Last Friday I spent all day in them. In the morning I wore them to hurry along to my fitting appointment for a new skirt I've commissioned Chrissie at Curve Couture to make for me. (That's Chrissie, the Brighton designer and creatrix extraordinaire who's showing her latest stunning collection at Brighton Frocks on 15th June - get your tickets!!) As I was followed around on that day by my ever-present escort with a camera, I am able to show you a little bit of that adventure:
That evening, we went to a party in our friends' beautiful garden. Although I was able to change my outfit (an early 60's style pink rose pencil skirt suit), the shoes could not be removed from my feet. As they were still blissfully comfortable, I was quite happy about this. There are a couple of photos of this lovely evening in "my pics". Luckily, my red shoes behaved themselves and did not force me to dance wildly to my death. But how I would have got home again at the end of the evening without them, I just don't know. "There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home..."