If you're at all familiar with the RoSa Shoes collection, you will know that what makes it what it is, is the way Roger has taken traditional, classic shoe styles and cleverly reworked them, adding to classic shoe-design elements the uniquely and wickedly ultra-pointed, extremely long toes and ultra-spiky stiletto heels that are the trademark of RoSa. 

One such shoe is the Mary Jane - a rounded, closed-toe shoe or sandal with side-fastening instep straps, traditionally worn by little girls, but historically boys as well.  Did you that that the name Mary Jane originates from the early 1900's from the cartoon strip by the American Richard Outcault - Buster Brown? Mary Jane was the sister of Buster, and they both wore this style of shoe.  I couldn't find a picture of her wearing her shoes, but I did find this charming frame representing what seems to be the arrival of Mary Jane into the world, showing Buster wearing his shoes: 

On an early Autumn weekend visit to Paris, my RoSa "Button Fastening, Wing Cap" Mary Janes were lucky enough to be invited along too.  They accompanied me for a daytime shopping trip to Rue du Faubourg St. Honore (damn this English keyboard) - and I must say, I was quite pleased with the way the black suede (with shiny black leather wing toe-cap) looked against the russet of the Autumn leaves: 

And they came with me to the Jardin des Tuileries, for a quick pose amongst the fallen leaves on the steps: 

We spent that evening in Montmartre, for which I invited my lace-up Oxfords: 

Well, of course this is the way the traditionally men's brogued style usually looks.  As some of you may know, we've been offering brogued and lace-up styles since the time we were known simply as "Roger and Sarah Adams" - 

On the left is our low-heeled Oxford and on the right our high-heeled stiletto Gibson, both from the 1980's - at that time the toes were as pointed and the heels as thin as we could get them. 

We are now able to offer, in our High-Heeled Oxford Lace-up, much more extreme length of toe and slenderness of heel:  

I loved the way the shiny black patent of my Oxfords reflected the brilliance of the night-time lights as I wined, dined and teetered around on my (almost) five inch heels on the cobbles and up and down the endless steps of Montmartre.

The above two pictures are taken from the movie "A Night in Montmartre in Black Patent High Heels" - hence the appalling photographic quality.  But you can view the movie here (if you want to). 

There's also a movie of the daytime shopping trip "Autumn in Paris with RoSa Shoes" - view here. 

There should also (by the time you read this) be a MySpace photo album of the trip. 

Toilet? What toilet? Oh, that toilet.  That's Amelie's toilet, that is.