Manolo the Columnist
Manolo says, here is the latest column of the Manolo for the Express of the Washington Post.
0Dear Manolo,
I desperately need a new pair of casual winter boots, but I’m a poor working girl. What would you recommend?
Campbell
Manolo says, winter it has finally arrived in the Washington, D.C., soon to bring with it the first light dusting of snow, at which point the drivers of Washington, all of whom were apparently raised in San Diego, will simultaneously lose control of their automobiles.
Of the course, life must still go on, even if the streets are filled with slush and the abandoned SUVs. The cat needs the milk and you have run out of the moisturizer, and so you must brave the elements and walk to the drugstore through the winter wonderland.
But you want to look your best, because you never know when you may bump into that Georgetown water polo player on whom you have the small crush.
Happily, you are not worried because you have recently purchased the new pair of the reasonably priced Timberland McKenneys, the handsome, wedge-heeled, weatherproof boots with the faux fur that looks most chic in that outdoorsy-ruggedy way which appeals to the broad-shouldered athletic boys.
Comments
Victor 18 years ago
Those look like the rarest of the rare: Very practical, yet quite attractive. Excellent choice, sir.
Lisa 18 years ago
Those are cute, and even cuter in the darker tan, which for some reason known only to Timbaaland, is called “Marathon.”
RZA 18 years ago
I love these! Genius! And I really love all the little DC-related stories you create.
lisa 18 years ago
“. . . all of whom were apparently raised in San Diego . . .”
(snerk)
I’m writing from San Diego, where we recently had a light dusting of drizzle, immediately resulting in more spin-outs than your average Nascar rally. We truly are incapable of driving.
But we are capable of appreciating cute boots. And those are cute boots.
roz 18 years ago
Cute, but how would you wear them? Seriously. Pants tucked in, I guess, but that doesn’t look too great on anyone weighing over 100 lbs. Seriously.
La BellaDonna 18 years ago
Hee! Hee! La BellaDonna, she loves the Manolo, who truly knows what it is that will pluck the hibernating elegante from her winter lair. No, not the broad-shouldered athletic boy – it is that the cat needs the milk! The moisturizer, it is also important, but even the cracking and peeling like the snake in spring, it does not galvanize in the same way as the plaintive cry of the 15-pound “baby” that bullies its non-feline roommate!
(It is the mortifying truth – last year, La BellaDonna, she mushed out in the snow up to her hips because the cat, he refused to accept, “But it’s snowing! There’s a blizzard!” as the excuse for not having his dab of the tinned food. The stock of moisturizer, it was mercifully fine.)
Annalucia 18 years ago
“…the drivers of Washington, all of whom were apparently raised in San Diego…”
Ah! The dear Manolo, how he makes the Annalucia laugh. Here in Chicago we have had enough of the snow today to disrupt the schedules at the Airport of O’Hare; in addition the parochial schools are closed and the Riccardino (that is the youngest son of the Annalucia) is in the backyard building the snow-creatures while his mamma strolls about the blogosphere.
The Annalucia must echo the question of the roz: how does one wear these boots? With the trouser-legs tucked in, like the nomad of the steppes?
Dr. Fabulous Shoes 18 years ago
I must say, the Manolo, he is one of the reasons that I’m a proud DC-ian, dispite the fact that no one here can drive. Indeed, Annalucia, the only truely sane snow drivers are Chicagoians (my hometown, but partiality not-with-standing). Alas, if only everyone here had fabulous shoes like these, they’d not need to drive! Sure, my ER would fill with ankle sprains, but we all must suffer a little for beauty!
la petite chou chou 18 years ago
Anyone who was raised where it can snow 4 feet in one night knows how to drive in the elements. I wasn’t in San Diego ever, but the San Bernardino Mountains get quite the snow….I don’t live there now, but in Portland, not a single SUV driving-liberal-hippie-rich person-I-can’t-drive-without-studded-tires-no-matter-the-weather-person knows how to drive in anything but rain. It’s exhausting.
la petite chou chou 18 years ago
Meant to say I wasn’t in Chicago ever…
nanflan 18 years ago
Meh. I’m not loving the wedge/boot hybrid although I wouldn’t mind having a lowish heel version of this same style. To the nanflan, the wedge, it is for the summer.
Dani 18 years ago
The wedge may actually be useful for reaching over the top of one’s SUV (abandoned or otherwise) to get the snow off of the windshield. Yes, indeed, a much more elegant solution than the long-handled ice-scraper & snow brush.
Just in case one needs some kind of practical justification for new snow boots.
betsy 18 years ago
“…the first light dusting of snow, at which point the drivers of Washington, all of whom were apparently raised in San Diego, will simultaneously lose control of their automobiles.” So, so well-put and so, so true.
Shoes 18 years ago
Hmm, the boots are nice, however the wedge would probably be a bit hazardous on the ice and snow…since many people fall over on their wedges when it is dry out.
the materialist 18 years ago
Shoes- Ah, but the wedge is lovely! I have shoveled a steep, icy driveway at night in similarly heeled boots and did not even slip once- which I am prone to do.