DEC
2006 29

Manolo the Columnist

Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post. Dear Manolo, Iâ€™m starting a new job in January, but once again, my generosity has outdone my commonsense and Iâ€™ve spent all of my money on Christmas gifts. Please help me find some affordable work shoes. Cindy Manolo says, as always the Manolo gives the same counsel, to not buy the cheap shoes of pain and suffering and the fake leather, but to save your moneys and buy the high quality shoes of comfort and stylishness. Beautiful shoes will make you stand straighter and feel…

AUG
2006 11

Manolo the Columnist

Manolo says, the latest column of the Manolo it is available at the website of the Express of the Washington Post. Today’s topic it is the shoes for the poor librarian. Dear Manolo, I work in a library, so flats or small heels are the best. The one problem is that I have super fantastic shoe aspirations on a flip-flop budget. While I am saving up, are there any minorly fantastic shoes for me? Eileen Manolo says, the librarians they are so smart, knowing that even if you are the poor girl you must save the moneys so that you…

JUN
2006 01

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…

MAR
2006 31

Manolo the Columnist

Manolo say, the most recent column of the Manolo for the Express of the Washington Post it is now available for the downloading. Again with the wedges! Dear Manolo, Iâ€™ve been visiting your blog this week and Iâ€™ve noticed that youâ€™ve been featuring lots of beautiful, but very expensive wedges. Can you recommend something for the impoverished working girl? Erika Manolo says, as the readers of the Manoloâ€™s humble shoe blog know the Manolo has been completely entranced by the most fabulous wedges of this season, and indeed if the super fantastic girl she has $400 of the American dollars…

NOV
2005 11

Franco Sarto Suede for the Poor Girls

Manolo says, as is usual, many of the Manolo’s internet friends have recently begged the Manolo, “Manolo, please, please, please help us, we are the poor girls who cannot afford the most beautiful, but also most expensive super fantastic shoes.” To this the Manolo he always offers the same reply. If you are the working girl you must budget your moneys, and save, as nothing in the world can compare to the truly wonderful shoes. Yet, at the same of the time, the Manolo he sympathizes with his impoverished internet friends, because the winter it is almost here, and you…

SEP
2005 20

Franco Sarto for the Poor Girls

Manolo says, many of the Manolo’s internet friends have been again emailing the Manolo, begging, “Manolo, please to help us, we are the poor girls who have no moneys but who need the super fantastic shoes!” As always, the Manolo he would tell the poor girls to save the moneys carefully so that they may be able to purchase the true shoes of super fantasticness. Nothing can compare to this. However, at the same of the time, the Manolo he knows what it is like to be poor, so poor that you must fashion your own super fantastic shoes out…

JUN
2005 25

The Bridesmaid of Butchness

Manolo says, one of the Manolo’s many internet friends has asked the Manolo the question. My sister has asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. As I am of the handsome butch variety of bridesmaid (think young k.d. lang or female Leo DiCaprio) I will be wearing trousers, while the other bridesmaids will wear skirts. This presents a problem though. What kind of shoes to wear underneath? They must be white. The trousers are periwinkle blue taffeta, flat-front, with a split ankle.I’d rather not have a very tall heel or overly feminine, but I need something which will…

APR
2005 25

Franco Sarto for the Poor Girls

Manolo says, once again many of the internet friends of the Manolo they are saying to the Manolo, “Manolo, you must help us. We are so poor and we cannot afford the shoes of super fantasticness!” To these friends the Manolo he says, be not afraid. Indeed, the Manolo he know what it is like to be poor, so poor that you must fashion your own super fantastic shoes out of the blocks of the scrap wood and the pieces of the rubber you have picked up alongside the road to the dump. And so the Manolo he has looked…