Comments on: The Three Million Dollar Shoes

By: blessed toes

blessed toes — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:06:34 +0000

This girl is gorgeous and this photo does not do her justice. The shoes look painful The feet look manicured. This is just a bad photo. Rita Hayworth would be proud.

By: Em

Em — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:36:38 +0000

Luxurious, eh? They look painful. I’d sooner go barefoot any day…

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:39:41 +0000

I think we’ve all just developed an absolute hose-revultion as a rebound reaction to the atrocious “Suntan/Coffee” reinforced-toe nylon profanity of the 60’s-70-’s-80’s.

By: DMCollins

DMCollins — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:11:23 +0000

I still don’t get the anti-stockings bias, these days. I was watching “To Catch a Thief” the other night, and there’s a close-up shot of Grace Kelly’s feet hitting the brakes of her car. She’s wearing pink, open-toed slingbacks with sheer stockings, and her feet look fabulous.

What’s good for Grace Kelly is good for me.

By: The Charlotte Allen

The Charlotte Allen — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:28:38 +0000

Jenny, I’ve looked again at the photo, and you’re right: her toenails are probably not so much dirty as simply unvarnished–and thus a bit grotty-looking in the dressy and sophisticated satin of the shoe.

The biggest problem is that the particular shade of red she’s wearing doesn’t flatter her skin, which looks doubly pale and pinkish for that reason. In that event, she probably could have used some extremely sheer stockings in a very pale shade that matched her skin. The shoes aren’t so bare that stockings would have looked out of place. I suspect, however, that there’s a kind of Hollywood hubris nowadays that bans the wearing of hose with evening dresses. You’ve got to keep up with Jennifer Anniston’s bare legs or you’re dead meat. It’s too bad.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:51:21 +0000

I would have suggested “photoshopping” that foot to match the shoe to the owner of that shot - reality enhanced just a tad - what a prettier picture to see.

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:03:23 +0000

As one who loathes her own pale, translucent, blue-veined feet but can’t do much about them (I refuse to put foundation on my feet, for Pete’s sake), I fell I must come to this poor lass’s defense. She’s uber-pale, and translucent skin is a frequent accompanyment. And I’m not seeing dirt—her nails are just not painted. Give the poor girl a break for going with what the good Lord gave her and doing the best she can with it! I’m sure that there are days she wishes her feet looked like Eva Longoria’s, too…

By: The Charlotte Allen

The Charlotte Allen — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:58:29 +0000

Stockings do look a little web-footed with very strappy summery sandals, but they’d look fine with a modest peep-toe like this shoe. And for some reason, satin doesn’t go very well with bare feet, at least during winter. Like Gidget Bananas, I, too, am awfully tired of bare legs with formal evening gowns and hope that this fad will go away, just as I hope low-rider jeans will go away.

By: gidget bananas

gidget bananas — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:32:32 +0000

“I was taught that a well shod foot begins with a well-stockinged foot.” The Gidget will be so happy when the hose-less trend, it disappears. Hose, and the closed toed shoes, hide the veiny feets and the bumpy shins. Good grooming is a better message to send than “look I am so rich I always have a car waiting so I can wear sandals in the middle of the winter.”

By: megaera

megaera — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:26:37 +0000

I believe that the three million part comes from the fact that the pretty jewelry thing in the shoe is actually a pair of earrings from Rita Hayworth’s estate. Those are actual rubies folks. He received permission from Hayworth’s daughter, the princess Yasim Aga Khan. hence, the price tag.