Manolo’s Shoe Blog

Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post.

Dear Manolo,

Starting in late July I’ll be spending two weeks of my vacation with some friends in a rented house in the Hamptons. During the day it’ll be beach casual, but at night we’ll be going out. What do you suggest?

Marlise

Manolo says, summer in the Hamptons! It is just like being in Manhattan, only without the nice people.

It is the experience of the Manolo that during the weekdays the Hampton beaches are mercifully free of the preening young investment bankers and their snooty socialite consorts. But at night, these creatures emerge into the bars and clubs, bringing with them their reign of social terror.

“Say, Muffy, who’s that with Skipper Boddlington, the 3rd? Where did she prep? The Dwight School! Good Lord, this place has gone down hill.”

However, fear not, for you are the young person of accomplishment, confidence, and natural charm, and no snubbing, however brutal, can keep you down for long, for this is your vacation and you are determined to enjoy it.

Unless your goal is to capture the fancy of the unctuous i-banker, which it should never be, the Manolo recommends that that you go Lower Long Island Super Fantastic. Key word: Snakeskin!

Look here is the appropriately named Nite Life from the Kenneth Cole New York!

Manolo says, here to enliven your Wednesday is the pair of the hot booties from the Kenneth Cole New York.

Yes, during the working day you appear to be the uptown girl, living in the white bread world. But, the truth it is more complex, and when your day of drudgery is complete it is onto the 6 and back to your tiny sublet in the East Village, where you will slip into the black ribbed tights and hot booties to meet your friends for drinks and arguments about the Julian Schnabel.

Manolo says, Ayyyyy! The animal prints they are everywhere this season!

First the spectacular one from the Dolce and the Gabbana.

Then the semi-practical one with the round toe, from the Kenneth Cole.

Finally, if you are going to wear the animal prints, do not be shy. The super fantastic girl who would wear these boots from the Donald Pliner she is indeed the creature of dangerousness.

Manolo says, the Manolo he has recommened this simple but elegant boot from the Kenneth Cole before, but now it is on the sale, reduced over 50% to below $100 of the American dollars! Truly it is the mighty bargain.

Manolo says, the most common question in the email of the Manolo it is from the poor girls asking the Manolo to find them the shoes worth the wearing at the low price.

As the Manolo he has said, in many of the times of the past, the poor girl she should save her moneys until she can afford the truly super fantastic shoes. But, of the course, the poor girl she cannot go about without the shoes on her feets, because for one of the reasons at the restaurants it is always “no shirts, no shoes, no way the Jose”.

Likewise the Manolo, he knows what it is like to be poor, so poor that you must make your own super fantastic (although somewhat impractical) shoes out of the pieces of broken pottery you have laboriously glued to the tops of the carpet slippers you found in the trash outside of the rest home.

And so the Manolo he has picked out three pairs of the shoes from the Kenneth Cole. They are all on the sale at the GothamCityOnline; all of them they selling for less than $70 of the American dollars.

Manolo says, yes these are the inexpensive shoes made in the China. However, they are sporty and not costly. (The thong at the bottom it is on the sale for only $30 of the American dollars.)

These shoes, in the estimation of the Manolo, they are good enough for the poor girl to wear to the laundromat until she can save the moneys for the most super fantastic shoes.

Manolo says, just because it is the Monday and you are at your desk does not mean that you cannot look at the shoes for the Friday night.

Manolo says, here is the good looking shoe from the Kenneth Cole that is on the sale. It is reduced nearly $100 of the American dollars, to just $64.

The Manolo, he approves of this shoe at this price. It is the good deal.

Of the course, there are many more such bargains available at the Manolo’s Basement of the Bargains.

Manolo says, this picture of the Kenneth Cole boot with the special place for the MetroCard, it made the Manolo smile.