Toe Cleavage

Ok, so here we go... First real blog posting.

Today I would like to discuss ... Toe cleavage!

You see, I never knew that "toe cleavage" existed. Well, actually I knew it existed in that I had seen it before, but I never knew it had a term. I guess I could have figured it out, as I had heard once that women visiting prisons were not allowed to wear open-toed shoes because it would excite the prisoners too much, due to the similarity between the creases between the toes and boob cleavage. Guess that should have been my first clue.

But for me, when I would buy dress shoes (Disclaimer #1: I do not have shoe fetishes like most of my friends, so I am not up to date on the hip styles of today. Indication of my nonfashionableness #1: I buy my shoes at Payless.), if my toes were showing in closed-toed shoes, I thought they were too small. Come to find out - toe cleavage is hot!!! Who knew??? Well apparently everyone. Or, at least, everyone who watches "What Not to Wear."

But, lucky for me, my friends take pity on my lack of fashion knowledge, and politely inform me of my misguided ways, as LSD did a few weeks ago. You see, she had just gotten a pair of Christian Louboutin (Indication of my nonfashionableness #2: I had too look up how to spell that...) shoes for Christmas, and showed me their distinctive red soles, to which I politely commented, "So cute!" To which she replied, "They're Christian Louboutin!" To which I replied (with fake recognition), "Oh! Wow!" and then, again, "So cute!" She quickly saw through my facade when I commented on the fact that the bottom of her toes were showing, and asked if they were too small. "No - that's toe cleavage! You gotta have toe cleavage." Unconvinced, I told her that I always thought that looked weird. To which she launched into an explanation of toe cleavage, discussing the size of her feet, and how because she has short toes, it's hard for her to achieve toe cleavage, and how excited she was that these shoes gave her toe cleavage, sighing with a dreamy look in her eyes as she said the name "Christian Louboutin" and gazing at her red-soled shoes. "They talk about it on 'What Not to Wear' all the time," she concluded.

Yes, of course, "What Not to Wear." Clearly I have been missing out on this essential aspect of twenty-something-womanhood. It's not so much that I don't care about being fashionable. Well, ok, maybe a little. But when you are just seeing the same ol' peeps, going to the same ol' classes, every day... there's just no motivation. Not to mention the discouragement that all your purchases are funded with student loans... I just can't bring myself to spend several hundred dollars on a pair of shoes! I know, I know, "the quality is so much better," "they'll last forever." I get it. But when I see shoes/clothes/purses that are just as cute (to me) for a small fraction of the price - I gotta go for it. For me, Tar-get (pronouced like it rhymes with "they") is the way to go. Cute, affordable, and fashionable enough - at least for right now.

I mean, I'll keep my options open. Maybe I'll put on "What Not to Wear" one of these days and just check it out. See what all the fuss is about. But I don't think they'll ever convince me that a pair of shoes should ever rightfully cost the same as big screen, plasma tv (see, I do have some extravagent desires... a subject for another post...).

Oh, and don't feel bad for LSD - she got the proper "oohs" and "ahhs" over her shoes from all our more "fashionable" friends at our next girls' night. :^)

Test Drive

So, Law School Debutante (LSD) tells me I have to make a first blog post so we can see what it looks like. So here we go... I'm very new to this whole "blogging" thing (those youngins tell me it's the cool thing to do), so please be patient...