Comments on: Manolo the Columnist http://shoeblogs.com/2007/09/14/manolo-the-columnist-98/ Manolo Loves the Shoes! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: JK http://shoeblogs.com/2007/09/14/manolo-the-columnist-98/#comment-527556 JK Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:41:01 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/09/14/manolo-the-columnist-98/#comment-527556 Hmmm yes Theresa could potentially out-shoe the bride, who has to wear comfortable heels since she will be on her feet most of the time. Hmmm yes Theresa could potentially out-shoe the bride, who has to wear comfortable heels since she will be on her feet most of the time.

]]> By: deja pseu http://shoeblogs.com/2007/09/14/manolo-the-columnist-98/#comment-527485 deja pseu Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:24:57 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/09/14/manolo-the-columnist-98/#comment-527485 Wow, my experience with Weitzman shoes has been just the opposite. A pair of ankle boots I bought two years ago and wear almost daily during the cooler months are still holding up beautifully. Maybe they have switched factories? Wow, my experience with Weitzman shoes has been just the opposite. A pair of ankle boots I bought two years ago and wear almost daily during the cooler months are still holding up beautifully. Maybe they have switched factories?

]]> By: linda grant http://shoeblogs.com/2007/09/14/manolo-the-columnist-98/#comment-527368 linda grant Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:34:30 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/09/14/manolo-the-columnist-98/#comment-527368 Sage advice as ever, but what follows is the sad and bitter truth about Stuart Weitzman, the designer of the superfantastic fashionable comfortable but not, as I have discovered, good quality shoes. I purchased a pair of superfantastic platform ankle boots with high heels in the sales some months ago, and they have been sitting quietly and patiently in their box until yesterday, until I wore at last. After some time I was aware of a pain in my left ankle, and something unusual about my gait, which I put down to too much walking in heels. When I got home last night, I noticed that the the rubber heel had come off, exposing and wearing down the white plastic concealed under the leather so that for some time, like Britney, I had been walking lopsided. This morning I took them into my trusty Greek Cypriot shoe repairers (popular in our neighbourhood for their resemblance to Elvis Presley) who examined them and told me that the shoes were unspeakably shoddily made. The heels should have had a metal rod in them, the rubber tip should have been attached by some superior method which I now can't remember. They also showed me how the height of the heel was not true with the height of the platform. And now I am just exasperated, because if Stuart Weitzman can't get it right who does, anymore? Sage advice as ever, but what follows is the sad and bitter truth about Stuart Weitzman, the designer of the superfantastic fashionable comfortable but not, as I have discovered, good quality shoes.

I purchased a pair of superfantastic platform ankle boots with high heels in the sales some months ago, and they have been sitting quietly and patiently in their box until yesterday, until I wore at last.

After some time I was aware of a pain in my left ankle, and something unusual about my gait, which I put down to too much walking in heels. When I got home last night, I noticed that the the rubber heel had come off, exposing and wearing down the white plastic concealed under the leather so that for some time, like Britney, I had been walking lopsided.

This morning I took them into my trusty Greek Cypriot shoe repairers (popular in our neighbourhood for their resemblance to Elvis Presley) who examined them and told me that the shoes were unspeakably shoddily made. The heels should have had a metal rod in them, the rubber tip should have been attached by some superior method which I now can’t remember. They also showed me how the height of the heel was not true with the height of the platform.

And now I am just exasperated, because if Stuart Weitzman can’t get it right who does, anymore?

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