Downsizing and happy discoveries! Downsizing is challenging! No doubt about it!
Martin and I have each had a wobbly moment or two where we land on an item that we really, truly love. However the reality is that it won’t fit on the boat… Some of these items are going to be hard to part with.
And then, there is the occasional “problematic” yet happy discovery.
I was rummaging in the bottom my wardrobe where I have a small present stash. This stash can accumulate over time. Here’s how. If I see something for someone that I think would make a great present I would buy it and it sits there until their birthday or Christmas, whichever comes first. Leading up to Christmas, I was rummaging through my present stash and found a fairly large bag of… wait for it… shoes! My God, I found a large bag with quite a few pairs of shoes… Hence the words “problematic” yet happy discovery.
I thought I was doing so well downsizing my shoe wardrobe. Sold at the markets, gifted to friends or retired. My shoe wardrobe was about half full, or should I say half empty and then I found these.
Unbelievable, right!
Que music David Bowie singing, “Fashion”
(Fashion, turn to the left
Fashion, turn the right
Oo, Fashion…)
Check these babies out…
And if you are wondering if I had missed any of them, the answer was yes a couple of them, however I thought I had lent them to a girlfriend! And others, if the truth be known, I had forgotten about.
Now my memories come flooding back.
The lovely purple shoes I bought to wear with my Wayne Cooper hot pink dress and Purple coat for Jo and Derek’s (bro) wedding. It was an amazing day and evening ending with 4 generations dancing the night away. Such a wonderful celebration and a fond, fond, fond memory.
The bronze pair I love however as gorgeous as they are they are uncomfortable. The fabric has no give. You get that occasionally.
The Burgundy pair has seen me dance in the New Year when wearing my baby doll dress that alas no longer fits me. This particular night has some awesome memories… in preparation for a big night my girlfriends and I decided to stay in the city in my office, yes my office. We arrived early and watched the sun set from my office (located on the top floor (23rd) of the building) accompanied with beverages of choice. Before heading out to dance the night away at Cloudland. We set up the office as a campsite ready for our return whenever that was going to be. We danced until well into the wee small hours of the morning and slept the night off before heading out to the iconic “People’s Place” for a late lunch.
However, the shoes that will take centre stage and are worthy of a spec sheet are these red babies::
Specifications
Brand: She
Heel height: 5” or 12.6cm
Colour: Patent leather red
Purchased: Some Spanish influenced shop on Adelaide Street Brisbane
I spotted them after an emergency run for an entire outfit. Here’s what happened. I had a personal training (PT) session in the city between 7-8am and I was starting a mediation at 9am. After the PT session ended I headed to the shower only to discover I had left my clothes at home(aAnd no, I did not wear these heels to the mediation). I found this funky little Spanish shop open and manage to find an outfit I could get away with. The shop was after all targeting a much younger demographic. They even had a couple of flats. I hate flats… I just do. So, it was solely out of necessity I bought a pair of flats that I knew I would never wear again. I got dressed in their change room and ran off to my mediation.
I had spotted these babies in the window beside the shop where I bought my “rescue” outfit.
They had burnt their way on to the retina of my mind. I went back to try them on that afternoon.
It was close to my birthday and my mother-in-law had given me some cash, so I went back and bought these babies. There was no occasion for which I had planned to wear them, and at the time I was not sure if they were too over the top. I am not sure why I could think that then. I don’t have that mind set now…
Favourite moment
Frocking up for the Rocky Horror Picture show.
I have loved every moment in these shoes, Rocky horror, Halloween, parties… they have been truly party shoes…
#Iloveshoes #Ilovefashion #IloveBowie… he, he #Ilovesailing #Whatareyouwaitingfor #liveyourlife
