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.
Fashionable childhood: American designers have launched stiletto shoes for babies!
American designers have launched a huge lot of high stilettos, designed especially for babies. The tiny stilettos are called Heelarious and are aimed at little kids from 0 to 6 months of age. The shoes are brightly oink, with black leopard and tiger patterns.
The creators of the unique shoes, whose names are Britta Backon and Heiden Porter, say, that the heels of the shoes have mainly a “show-off” function: if you try to press them a little or stand on them, they will be broken in a second.
According to Britta Backon’s words, the idea to create such shoes came to her mind while celebrating the forth birthday of her daughter. “I thought, it would be amazing, if Keila, my daughter, could have high-heeled stilettos on, when she was a baby”- says the designer.
A pair of these extravagant shoes costs 35 dollars. The shoes are available in 6 different models, and the models appear to be named after the 6 kids of the inventor. Baby stilettos can be purchased in more than 50 retailing spots in the USA, Canada and Switzerland. What is more, they can be acquired through the Internet.
Stylish driving: stiletto shoes for drivers!
A British company named Sheilas’ Wheels has created special shoes for women drivers, called Sheila Driving Heel. The shoes immediately transform from stilletto shoes to the comfortable driving shoes, that are very useful and cosy, when you’re at a steering wheel.
The gimmick is not only in the heel itself, that hides in a sole slot, but also in the change of the sole itself. When transformed, the shoes resemble flat pumps, that are very comfortable for pressing the pedals of the car. However, when transformed back, these shoes become stylish stilettos.
It’s interesting to know, that Sheilas’ Wheels in actually not a shoe making company, but an insurance company, created especially for female drivers. However, not only the insurance itself, but also the development of car accessories is in the company’s scope.
Sheilas’ Wheels presents us with the statistics: 10% of female drivers acknowledge, they had an accident or were on the brink of an accident because of the problems with their shoes and the pedals; along with this 80% of women do not change the stylish shoes to more comfortable ones, when they sit at the wheel, so they prefer luxury to safety. Some simply wear equally comfortable shoes both in the car and out of it. And finally only 17% have a pair of special “driving shoes” in their car.
