I know, I know, more shoes, you ask? This girl must be out of her gourd!  Probably so. But these aren't actually SHOES, I promise! Summ...

It all started with mythical tales of 70s disco glamazons who danced with platforms that doubled as aquariums. Who hasn't wondered, at o...

Stubbs & Wootton, well known pedigreed purveyors of the super preppy velvet slipper shoe has had a grand, old, sublime, "WHAT??!...

I stumbled on German designer Kronier Creations a few months ago, after reading a sort of bitter comment on another post about how they...

Over the last few months, it seems that I've entered this, uh—relationship—with lucite (or, you know, PLASTIC. What the hell, let's ...

A couple of new things! 1. Marylyn from the blog Corrider40 recently probed my brain on shoes, style and other random things.  Corrider40...

Isn't there a rhyme involving flowers and April showers? Am I missing something? Because the past few days have felt like summer, and I ...

I've been told that I'm an "impractical person." This is false.  It's just that, I usually concern myself with the pra...

Above, Imelda Marcos's legendarily enormous collection of shoes. Scan from Dictator Style, by Peter York. When the incoming Aquino gov...

Sometimes, I'm extraordinarily all over the place with things I'm thinking about or working on. Zero attention span? Three things...

This weekend I set out to make what I've been craving, but have, as of yet, to find: chain harnesses. I wanted these to be totally adjus...

Shoes by Tokio Kumagai (1947-1987).  The first two are images from his "Shoes to Eat" series, 1984. Would you wear these? Cause I...

Have you ever noticed that Louis XIV is nearly always captured in portraits donning talons rouges (red heels)?  Red was a privilege extended...

For her recently announced marriage , three things. A toast...  Of Cristal crystal, only the finest! Above, photographed and styled by (...

I love the idea of a ruff (you know, those large, decadent collars men and women wore in Elizabethan England?).  Maybe it's the extremen...