Manolo’s Thursday Miscellany
Manolo says, here are the few links which may perhaps amuse…
Then i got some fun fur for the grass
For fall, there is a definite feel of girding up for battle,
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August 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 am
Pretty Chanel shoes in the first link! Though they’d be even prettier without the logo on the toes — yes, it’s subtle, but I’ve never much cared for logo-wear. Why be a free billboard, even for Chanel?
And it would also have been nice if the author had removed the tissue from the pretty shoes before taking their picture :)
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Re: the previous comment. Meow! Why stop at criticizing the son’s gift and the mom’s joy in receiving it? Let’s complain about the photo as well!
The garden crocks are very strange, but an improvement over the originals. I’m reminded of the strange hats that one often sees at the Kentucky Derby each year.
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
A mall-crawl last month convinced me that 2007 was the Summer of Ugly. Sadly, it looks like fall is shaping up the same way. Although this dress was gorgeous, just about everything else was… not.
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
That woman is a very very lucky mother indeed to have gotten such beautiful shoes from her son :)
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I echo the sentiment that the recipient of the Chanel shoes has a rather exceptional son!!
At the risk of starting another Croc controversy, it occurs to me to wonder what the half life is of the material these “shoes” are composed of. I can’t imagine that their rate of decomposition can be measured in anything less than centuries. Does this not make them a terrible contaminent to our dear mother earth? Since most of the people I see wearing them seem to use them as a dress up version of their Birkenstocks, I wonder how they reconcile the negative impact of their footwear on the environment with their rabid craving for Croc comfort.
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
What, we can’t talk about the shoes because her son bought them for her?
I thought the same thing about not caring for the logo. It certainly wouldn’t deter me from wearing them if I got them as a gift, though.
August 4th, 2007 at 2:31 am
The woman who made the garden clogs really needs to hook up with a sculptor, who can make a lovely garden gnome at 1/20th scale.
August 4th, 2007 at 3:07 am
About the beautiful Chanel shoes - it’s black on black and the logo is so tiny that you’d have to be looking very closely to see it anyway.
I’m not a fan of logos either but I think I’d be too busy admiring the quilting on the shoe and not notice the infamous intertwined C’s.
August 4th, 2007 at 10:22 am
I think it’s kind of weird that her son knows her shoe size!
August 4th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I think it’s kind of weird that her son can afford Chanel shoes!!
August 5th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Remind me to bring my sons up as well as Gigi!