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OBSESSION! SHOES! SHOES! SHOES!

Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by Corey Tess in Fashion, General

I have a sickness. Something that has plagued me since I was a little girl. A sort of cloud that enters my mind whenever I pass the shoe department of Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus… and don’t even talk to me about Bloomingdales! I have come to the conclusion that some of us are born this way, we simply cannot control our affinity for Italian leather, satins, bows, silks and ribbons when arranged as a beautifully designed piece of art made with the contours of the delicate female tootsie in mind!

SHOES seem to be an obsession for many women, so much so that movies and books are now created around the strong relationship between women and their shoes. The Devil Wears Prada, Sex in the City, Confessions of a Shopaholic… etc etc etc…

Men don’t understand, although I do have a friend who is as attached to his Ferigamos as I am to my Marc Jacobs… so there are a few boys who are susceptible to the disease, I suppose.

The reason this is on my mind is because in preparation for my move from North Carolina back home to Southern California, I had to examine my SWAG, LOOT, um… belongings… and I discovered that four closets filled with shoes were going to cost practically as much to ship and store as they cost to buy in the first place. I also realized that out of the 200 or so pairs of shoes I owned, I wore about 20 favorite pairs over and over and the others simply sat on the shelves looking as cute in my closet as they had on the display levels at the store. I also began to take stock of my credit card bills, yes- just like in that book/movie about the girl in the green scarf (Conf. of a Shopaholic), it was painfully clear that I had buried myself in a mountain of debt and under a mountain of shoes. You think I am kidding, but a month or so ago, I was organizing my closet and had an actual SHOE AVALANCHE that buried me quite literally under my purchases!

Still, after GIVING AWAY some of the cutest pairs to friends and sending the others to charity (Dress For Success is a good cause), I kept about 50 pairs of my closest friends/shoes… and arranged them in a large tub for relocation to my new, much smaller, domain in Los Angeles…

The other day, after preparing my clothes and accessories in tubs as well, I grabbed a catalog to use as packing material and opened to a page showing the most gorgeous pair of red ribbony sandals on sale! One more fix for the road????