Antonia Manero
Manolo says, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a lady’s man, no time to talk.
MAR
2007 14
2007 14
Whose Shoes Wednesday…The Answer!
Manolo asks, whose shoes?
Manolo answers, the Queen Mother Elizabeth!
Congratulations to the Manolo’s long time interent friend the Phyllis, who came up with the correct answer the mere eleven minutes after the Manolo asked the question. Indeed, the Manolo was mightily impressed by all of his friends who said the Queen Mum, as he thought this question was quite difficult.
By the way, the amusing and endearing picture on the left is from 1949, during one of the three periods in the 20th century when the platform shoes were stylish. The other two occured in the 1930s and in the 1970s. Of the course, we are now at the end of the first revival of the platforms in the 21st century.
MAR
2007 14
2007 14
Whose Shoe Wednesday
Manolo says, today the Manolo starts the new feature, something he calls “Whose Shoe Wednesday”, in which the Manolo presents the pictures of the shoes of the famous person, and his internet friends guess who this person is.
These shoes all belong to the same beloved woman.
Manolo asks, whose shoes?
Victory!
Manolo says, perhaps the light it is at the end of the tunnel.
SHE’S the Hollywood star credited for turning an Australian icon into a worldwide fashion phenomenon, but Pamela Anderson has taken the shears to her longterm love affair with Ugg boots.
In perhaps her blondest moment yet, the former Baywatch babe has announced she is putting the boot into her footwear staple of the last decade, boycotting Uggs after finally realising they were made from shaved sheep skin.
The mother-of-two, who is a staunch animal rights activist and member of PETA, says she is wracked with guilt over the fact that women around the globe followed in her footsteps by wearing the boots.
“I’m getting rid of my Uggs – I feel so guilty for that craze being started around my Baywatch days,” Anderson wrote on her website.
“I used to wear them with my red swim suit to keep warm never realizing that they were skin! I thought they were shaved kindly?”
“It’s what I grab by my door in the mornings to bring my kids to school or walk my dog on the beach at 6am or anything early. I’ve definitely over-used them – and that’s it!”
While fashion critics have always been inclined to label Anderson’s penchant for the boots as Ugh, the busty pin-up sparked a massive celebrity craze replicated by wannabe fashionistas around the globe after being consistently photographed wearing the comfortable boots for years.
“People like to tell me all the time that I started that trend – yikes!” Anderson wrote.
“Well let’s start a new one. Do NOT buy Uggs! Buy Stella McCartney or juicy boots.”
Amen, sister, amen!
Perhaps, finally, our long international nightmare is over, and we may now devote all of our energies to destroying the Crocs.
FEB
2007 26
2007 26
The Awards of the Academy
Manolo says, last night the most super fantastic stars of the Hollywood (with one lamentably neglected exception) turned out for the annual awarding of the Awards of the Academy!
As is customary following such events the Manolo will now provide his comments about those who were in attendence at the gilded event and the parties which surrounded it.
First the hostesss..
The red velveteen leisure suit and the white patent leather shoes? The Ellen really glamed it up, eh?
Señor Pumpkinhead goes formal.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Taste.
Best Director, General Tom Thumb
It was the big year for the dancing penguins
Casting for the worst romantic comedy ever.
FEB
2007 23
2007 23
Leave Britney Spears Alone!
Manolo says, it is no secret that the Manolo likes to make the gentle fun of the celebrities, but sometimes the Manolo feels that we must restrain ourselves.
Such is the case with the Brittney Spears, whom the Manolo no longer has any desire to ridicule.
In the fact, the Manolo would like to say to others, please stop bothering this woman. There is nothing seriously wrong with the Britney Spears except that she is newly divorced and thus is the very angry young woman.
Yes, she has had the few wild months, but which of us, following the disastrous relationship, has not gone the little wild?
Her behavior is the typical behavior of the newly divorced young women, who wear the short skirts and go out with their wild and slatternly friends, and who act out in anger at the homes of their dopey, loser ex’s.
Yes, she drinks but she is not the real drunk. She does not need her meddling friends to “intervene” and put her into the “rehab”, where the professional killjoys and nanny-mommies will bombard her with the psychobabble until she truly longs for the sweet realease of the vodka bottle.
What the Britney Spears really needs is to eat the tub of ice cream, have the good cry, deface the photo of the Federline, and get back to work so that she may regain the self-confidence that is hers by right of talent.
Of the course, there is also great restorative power in shopping for the shoes.
So, let us now leave the Britney alone so that she may vent her anger and emerge on the other side the better and wiser person.
FEB
2007 07
2007 07
Seventy is the New Forty?
Manolo says, or, at the least, possibly the Simulacrum of Youth.
FEB
2007 07
2007 07
Cary Grant on the Shoes
Manolo says, one of the Manolo’s internet friends has forwarded the Manolo this 
piece of wisdom from the Cary Grant.
I’m reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes: it has stood me in good stead whenever my own finances were low. He said, it’s better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well cared for, would continue to proclaim your good judgement and taste no matter how old they become. It is rather like the stock market. It makes more sense to buy just one share of blue chip than 150 shares of a one-dollar stock.
It is so very true, no?
FEB
2007 06
2007 06
Sonja Henie is Triple Salchowing in Her Grave
Manolo says, ayyyyy, the figure skaters they are so elegant!
