There is something about beautiful pair of pumps that makes a woman wonder if she could do without sex and chocolate? If it came down to Jake Gyllenhaal in boxer briefs made out of dark chocolate, or a pair of mint suede Greissimo Mule’s from Christian Louboutin’s Spring/Summer 2011 collection... I would choose Christian. There is nothing I like more in life than shoes! They always fit, and they never say you look fat like your clothes secretly do in the mirror. Your legs look a thousand times better as soon as slip those bad gals on. You walk down the street in a great pair of heels and you feel strong and powerful, and you know all eyes are on you.
The problem with beautiful shoes is that the price tags are ugly. Though, ladies do not get discouraged, good things come to those who wait. I am going to tell you of a tale about the best shoe find ever, no settling required. My friend Christine and I decided to take a personal day and do what we normally do, drink coffee at Starbucks and look at magazines. This time was a little different; I was helping Christine look through magazines for her wedding shoes. After two hours, three lattes, and a zillion wedding magazines, we decided that today would be the day we were going to find Christine’s shoes. Armed with photographic visuals, copious amounts of caffeine, and a child-like optimism, we set off to Bay and Bloor.
Our first stop was Celebration Shoes, in Yorkville. Celebration Shoes is known for specializing in bridal shoes and accessories for 13 years. Another cool tidbit about this little shoes store is that they can dye almost any fabric shoe. Unfortunately, we had no luck and continued on. We stopped in at Holt Renfrew and of course got the usual pretentious treatment of stares and looks of “you can’t afford anything here”. I do not know why I shop there? Anyway, didn’t find anything, our child-like optimism was slowly turning. We left Holt’s, feeling ugly and worthless, exactly how Holt Renfrew wants you to feel.
Are next stop was an immaculately white shoe store, which I forget the name. We trudged in and mucked up the entire place with our muddy, wet Uggs. Needless to say the owner was pissed as he was about to close. Story of the day, we did not find anything, and left giggling a thank you and apologizing for the mess. Who decorates a shoes store all in white anyway? Good in theory, awful in reality.
After endless hours of walking around and not the faintest hope of finding a decent pair of wedding shoes, we decided to give up and go have a martini. It was then we realized we had completely bypassed David’s on Bloor. Now I am not a particular fan of this store, as it has the same pretentious feel as Holt’s, and it creep’s me out when old guys help me with shoes. But, we were desperate and there was a sale sign in the window. The store was pretty busy and the sense of urgency in each woman’s eyes as I looked around, gave me a sense that this was no ordinary sale. I knew we had hit the jackpot this was a secret sale (prices are lower than actually marked)!
Normally after New Year’s, shoes tend to go ridiculously on sale and if you blink you will miss it. Also, the bigger your foot the better, normally nines and tens are left in designer footwear. Now you have to have a strong heart for these sales, and I do not promote violence but you may have to bring a small can of whoopass. You do not want any bitch coming between you and your fabulous find! You also may have to stalk a fellow shopper around the store until she gets freaked out and puts down the shoes. I’m just kidding (not really).
I am not sure if there was some spiritual entity at work that day, but all of sudden both Christine and I felt a white light coming from the bottom of a shoe rack. There tucked between the winter 2009 rejects were a pair of white satin, two-inch heel Christian Louboutin’s! They were a perfect fit and only $299, I felt every women in the store take a moment of silence. As we both walked to the cash we could not contain our excitement, even the old man helping us seem to feed off our enthusiasm. Better yet, when he rung them up they were marked down further to $199! We floated out of the store so high on life we didn’t even stop for a martini.
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