Franco Sarto Suede for the Poor Girls
Manolo says, as is usual, many of the Manolo’s internet friends have recently begged the Manolo, “Manolo, please, please, please help us, we are the poor girls who cannot afford the most beautiful, but also most expensive super fantastic shoes.”
To this the Manolo he always offers the same reply. If you are the working girl you must budget your moneys, and save, as nothing in the world can compare to the truly wonderful shoes.
Yet, at the same of the time, the Manolo he sympathizes with his impoverished internet friends, because the winter it is almost here, and you can no longer go barefeeted in the park, to say nothing of the place of the employments.
Of the course, the Manolo he also sympathizes because he knows what it is like to be poor, so poor that you must fashion your own super fantastic huaraches out of the coffee cans you have laboriously flattened and shaped with the brick, and tied to your feet with the electrical cords.
And so the Manolo, he has picked out the few of the suede shoes from the Franco Sarto for his frugal friends to wear while they save the moneys.
The Manolo he thinks this shoe it is marvelously stylish. Yes, the quality it is undoubtedly not perfect, but the shoe, it looks very sabroso, does it not?
Here is the suede boot with the wedge heel that is both urban and urbane, and also very attractive.
This round-toed, slingback pump, it is pretty and feminine. It is also selling for under $75 of the American dollars!
Increasingly The Manolo he is impressed by many of the designs of the Franco Sarto. They are very good. If only they could be produced in the Italy, instead of the Brazil.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:31 am
I LOVE LOVE LOVE you Manolo.
November 11th, 2005 at 8:49 am
Manolo, Manolo! These are so pretty, I love the mary janes. I am one of the poor girls you mention in your post, and I have a question. If we do manage to save up the hundreds of dollars necessary for a superfantastic pair of shoes, do you have a suggestion for what (one) pair we buy? Are there pairs that could go almost anywhere?
November 11th, 2005 at 8:55 am
Grownupingenue - great question! That’s right Manolo, let’s say you save up $600 - what is the ultimate pair of shoes?
We wait patiently for all answers.
November 11th, 2005 at 8:58 am
oh, and by the way, the sarto’s are great looking shoes!
November 11th, 2005 at 10:02 am
Rick-rack!? I love it!
November 11th, 2005 at 11:29 am
Yes Italy is better than Brazil but both are double much better than China! In fact, the Cake of Johnny considers country of origin to trump whatever the brand. Many of the Superfantastic Designers (the Cake of Johnny will not name names) cheat by placing their label on inferior crap from the same source of merchandise as the Mart of Wals.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:25 pm
It is difficult to say which is more charming: Manolo’s shoe selections or his childhood recollections. No doubt the collected cobblings of little Manolo would rival most modern art sculpture collections.
My only question, as much as I hate to publicly expose my ignorance, is what does “sabroso” mean? As always, I’m wishing I had taken Spanish at school, rather than French.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Babelfish says it means “flavorful”. But sometimes, Babelfish misses little subtleties in language. It’s pretty useful sometimes, at other times, it’ll translate “Swedes” in English to “turnips” in Finnish.
Now, Manolo, what about the super poor hurache/coffee can wearing girl who ALSO happens to have a super sized foot? (Size 12) I love these shoes, all of them only go to 10 or 11.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
The super fantastic Manolo jests of childhood penury when writing of, “super fantastic huaraches out of the coffee cans you have laboriously flattened and shaped with the brick, and tied to your feet with the electrical cords.”
Where I grew up—the marshes and cranberry bogs outside of Bialytok–we were so poor that we couldn’t afford bricks to flatten coffee cans. So, we stuck our feet IN the cans and walked around until we were crippled.
November 11th, 2005 at 6:44 pm
Brilliant Website, Manolo…
One of the most novel way to create an aff site.
truly great…..
Wish you have many such beautiful shoes in the future
Anish
November 11th, 2005 at 9:39 pm
ok-please! explain to me why shoes can be so unbearably expensive and what you’re getting. Perhaps its a stupid question. But this seemed a good place to ask.
November 12th, 2005 at 1:46 am
I have always loved the Franco Sarto shoes. Franco Sarto’s styling is solid and, despite the low prices, the leathers always look good. The calf skins are especially supple (I don’t believe Franco Sarto uses much kid skin) and the suedes are short and dense, unlike other suede shoes for the poor girls. I applaud your choices, Manolo!
November 12th, 2005 at 9:48 pm
I would like to second sp8cemunky’s question. What qualities can we expect for all that money? I have tried on shoes (Via Spiga, I’m thinking of) that cost $200 that had stiff edges to the suede or leather that dug sharply into my feet. This was true even when I went up a size and the shoe was too loose to stay on. For $200+ I’d at LEAST expect supple materials and a comfortable fit, and yet I find these qualities in expensive shoes no more often than I find it in shoes under $80. What’s the deal? Am I paying for art for the feet, not for practicality? Does leather or suede require some sort of conditioning before wear? Is $200 still not enough to get an all-around fabulous shoe?
February 8th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I have those last Franco Sarto shoes (in brown :D) and they costed around $100 dls ($1000 mexican pesos as I live in mexico)…
They’re seriously beautiful ^^
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:13 am
[…] Wearable shoes from cans! This reminds the Manolo of his own impoverished youth. […]
October 25th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Hola to the Christina! It actually makes the berserk sense that the bablefish, it will translate “Swedes” in English to “turnips” in Finnish - not that the wonderful people of Sweden are the root vegetable, but the “swede” IS indeed the root vegetable - also known as the “rutabaga,” derived genetically from the cabbage and turnip cross. And yummy mashed with the cream and butter!
In the Scottish, it is the “neep” - and still yummy mashed with the cream and butter!