Manolo's Shoe Blog

JUL
2010 12

Jimmy Choo Patent Leather Sandals For the Monday

Manolo says, it is Monday and you are back at your desk, adding your tuppence to our blighted economy. Oddly, this morning you are bright and sunny and full of cheer, happy to be out of your house and back at your job. You say, “oddly”, but in reality, it is not so “oddly”. You are happy to be back at the desk because your sister-in-law and her brood have been visiting for the past week, and frankly you need the break. It is not that your in-laws are the bad people, for indeed, taken in the small doses, your…

JUL
2010 09

Manolo the Columnist: Tealights from Stuart Weitzman

Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post. Dear Manolo, A junior diplomat of my acquaintance has invited me to the French Embassy for a Bastille Day party. It’s an evening affair with dinner and dancing, so I’m wearing a long, strapless, cerulean blue, chiffon dress. I’m also considering wearing red shoes and a white shawl in honor of the French tricolore. Please advise. Patricia Manolo says, how marvelous to be celebrating liberté, égalité, fraternité in this most exclusive of settings, with the French bureaucrats and their dates stuffing themselves with frog legs…

JUL
2010 08

I Shall Wear the Bottoms of My Trousers Rolled

Manolo says, our friend Mr. Henry considers the trousers. Once in a great while, however, you must leave irony at the door and strike out into the world attempting to look like a serious man. At these fateful junctures in life’s comedy, trousers that fall at the wrong length will undermine a confidence already crumbling at the edges.

JUL
2010 08

Whose Shoes Wednesday…The Answer!

Manolo asked, whose shoes? Manolo answers, it is the Natalie Wood! Comgratulations to the Manolo’s internet friend, Deja Pesu, who was the first person to correctly identify this week’s personage of note.

JUL
2010 07

Tory Burch Blondie Flat Sandals on the Sale!

Manolo says, here is the stylish Tory Burch Blondie flat sandal, perhaps the last final gasp of gladiatorism, on the deeply discounted sale, over 50% off of the normal price.

JUL
2010 07

Airbrushed Italia!

Manolo says, Ayyyy! That cock, it suffers under the deathgrip of the Madonna. P.S. Madonna loves the chickens!

JUL
2010 07

Whose Shoes Wednesday

Manolo asks, whose shoes?

JUL
2010 05

Transcendent Joy!

Manolo says, Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!

JUL
2010 04

The Fourth of July!

Manolo says, perhaps the single most delightfully jingoistic scene ever to appear in any Hollywood movie, featuring Soldiers, Boy Scouts, Patriots, Cowboys, Uncle Sam, and Teddy Roosevelt armed with the sword!

JUL
2010 04

Happy Fourth of the July!

Manolo says, Happy Fourth of the July! P.S. This, the most patriotic bootie the Manolo has ever seen, is from Giuseppe Zanotti, via our friend Miss Plumcake, who suggests that we just “bask in its glory“.

JUL
2010 02

The After School Special

Manolo says, over at the Food Blog, our friend Katie, has blogged about the after school treats enjoyed by the Korean crunchers of the crumb.

JUL
2010 02

Manolo the Columnist: Secret Love by Nanette Lapore

Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post. Dear Manolo, Two years after a fairly painful divorce, I’ve decided that it’s time to get back out there and try again. In other words, I’m going out on a date with a gentleman I met online. (We’ve already met for coffee during the daylight hours, so the preliminaries are out of the way.) What I need for this date, however, is a good looking, feminine shoe with a bit of a heel, something that is not too overtly sexy. Please help. Kristin Manolo says,…