Something blue for ‘Sex And The City’ fans!
If you love the series “Sex And The City”, you will really appreciate this information. This is how the famous “Something blue” shoes, created by Manolo Blanick, look like. These are the shoes, that Carrie Bradshow (Sarah Jessica Parker) used to wear with such chick and elegance in the series “Sex And The City”. It’s actually impossible to feel blue in “Something blue”, for these shoes seem to embody brightness, freshness and absolute feminine elegance.
Today the famous shoes have become the central part of an exquisite and luxurious hotel program, named after the shoes - “Something blue”. The program dedicated totally to the blue shoes of Carrie, is carries out by the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York. During the program you will be able to feel yourself in the heart of the “Sex And The City” and experience the full range of emotions, that existed in the souls of the main heroines.
The program also includes a double hotel room, free martini in the bar, an album of pictures, created by the famous designer Manolo Blanick, spa pedicure in the luxurious spa salon and pf course, Champaign brought by a maid right to your room. Exquisite service, flawless staff, luxurious cuisine in the local restaurant will make you feel on the cloud nine. But what is even more important, tan all these glittering ways of entertainment – the visitors will be granted a pair of the famous “Something blue” shoes. Each shoe will be signed by its creator - Manolo Blanick.
Having looked at these shoes, one woman said: “I will give three men for one pair”. Can shoes be more precious, than a partner. Well, if we speak about prices…The program will cost you two hundred dollars for two persons, but isn’t feeling like a Hollywood star worth this money?
Fashionable history: how the heels appeared.
Shoes, that make an owner look higher, have been widely known since the times of the Ancient Greece. At that times such shoes were used in theater performances and resembled wooden or cork sandals with an elevated sole. In medieval Europe city streets were covered in sewage, and people had to put on stilt shoes – wooden soles with leather belts. They were put over average everyday shoes and called sabots. In the East shoes like that, named cabab were put on in the bathhouses for the visitors not to burn their feet on the hot floor. In Venice, starting from the XV century, women of different social statuses used to wear high platform shoes (up to 20 cm), that were called cokkolli – meaning “little hooves”.
High-heeled shoes had for a long time been worn only by men – women came to this fashion only in the XVII century. In women’s fashion some practical functions of a heel were replaced by pure esthetical. These shoes made a woman’s posture look grand, though at that times wearing high heels was connected with hard physical work, for the height of heels sometimes amounted to 20 cm.
Heels of the shoes were usually painted in different colours in accordance to fashion and season: blue, green, black. Red was a very important colour, for in the European countries it served as a symbol of aristocracy. In XVII the heels of the boots were painted black, and the red colour remained only by shoes (Mr. Red Heels was the nickname for French fops in the times of Louis XIV). Before the French revolution of the XVIII century only the court nobleman were allowed to wear shoes with high heels, painted red.
The history of heels continues developing. Thus, in the beginning of XVIII century the French invented the so-called “dove-leg” heel. Being concaved upward, it created an optical illusion of a foot being smaller, than it is. Famous stiletto heels were created in the XX century, and, unfortunately, the name of their creator is unknown.
