Franco Sarto for the Poor Girl Summer
Manolo says, as is often the case, the email box of the Manolo it has been overflowing with the emails from the Manolo’s many internet friends asking the Manolo to help them find the affordable shoes.
“Please,” the internet friends of the Manolo say, “we are the poor working girls who must slave away in the hot office, hiding under the pasted-on smiles our simmering envy of the stylish women who have achieved greater success. Please help us, Manolo, we need the beautiful shoes to ease our pain, but we have no moneys. ”
As always, the reply of the Manolo it is the same, that the poor working girl she must save her moneys so that she may purchase the super fantastic shoes. Also, she should strive to not feel the envy of the successful woman; for all that we know she may suffer from her own disappointments and neuroses.
In the stead it is better to focus on obtaining the beautiful shoes, for owning all of the bargain priced feetwear in the world cannot replicate the feeling one gets when wearing the single pair of the truly refined shoes. It is sublime, similar to the religious experience, only for the feets.
At the same of the time, the Manolo he knows what it is like to be poor in the summer, so poor that you must fashion your own summery white buck shoes out of the discarded ice cream wrappers, cotton candy cones, and popsicle sticks that have fallen onto the sand beneath the cracks in the boardwalk.
And so the Manolo he will help his internet friends by recommending some of the summery light-colored shoes of the Franco Sarto, shoes which sell for under $100 of the American dollars.
As we know the Manolo he has this season gone mad for the wedge heels, and this shoe, the Muro, it has the striking combination of the dark wedge and the white straps that the Manolo finds especially attractive.
Here is another of the wedges, the Dimple, with the similar dark-below, light-on-the-top color combinations.
Finally, here is the oddly named Orator, which is shown here in the white with the blue accents, and in the unusual but very attractive color known as the celedon, the light green. Is it not limitedly perfect in its own inexpensive way?
Oh I do love the Dimple!! Thanks for the recommendation – this girl is not so poor but is more concerned about living in the country with no real need for high fashion sandals. But it is time for a new pair and these are gorgeous!
I agree that the Orator is very strangely named – maybe they are reminiscent of the shoes that Seneca or Cicero might wear in the hot Roman summers, were they feeling particularly fabulous. At any rate, I am glad to see the super cute summer sandals in flats for those of us on the already tall side. Thankyou, Manolo!
Oooooo, I love the Muro! And I agree with mywhimsey – I immediately thought of Cicero when I saw the name Orator. Or maybe it just means “let your feet do the talking”?
I delight in every installment of “shoes for the poor girls” because the Manolo graces us with another story of his childhood shoe woes where he had to fashion his shoes from…well…garbage.
“…so poor that you must fashion your own summery white buck shoes out of the discarded ice cream wrappers, cotton candy cones, and popsicle sticks that have fallen onto the sand beneath the cracks in the boardwalk.”
So poetic. =) Thanks for the smiles!
the good thing about sarto’s is you can get them is a size 5 and they run small for those of us with petite feet.
I love those flats- gorgeous!
YES. That’s all.
I was surprised by my Franco Sarto tall boots. They were the first knee high’s I could find that almost fit my disgustingly skinny bird legs. They fit well enough that I can wear them without looking like my boots’ calves are too big! I was also surprised that I wear a 6.5 in them rather than my usual standard 7.
I LOVE my boots! Also the most comfortable heel I own.