Good Morning,
Here's the next chapter in "The Quest for the Dress."
When we were last here together, in this continuing saga, the dress for the wedding had arrived.
http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/2980217?...=keywordsearch
And the agonizing over the shoes had begun.
I like the dress a lot, but the color was making it hard to figure out what color shoes to wear with it. So I procrastinated about the shoes. One day I spent about an hour on zappos.com trying to figure something out. But nada.
Soooo, one morning my daughter Boomette Valerie (Slave to Fashion) called to see how the quest was coming along. I said, "Oy, the shoes! The shoes! They're making me crazy. Black patent goes with everything evening. Right? I have black patent. I will just wear those."
Well, as we all know, age and guile beat youth and inexperience any day.
I thought Boomette Valerie's head was going to explode.
"You are coming with me to the mall," she ordered. "I will be at that wedding, too, you know. I will not have my mother wearing black patent shoes with that dress. You need metallic shoes. Metallic is tricky. But way in right now. Get the dress and meet me at the mall. NOW!"
And so I met Boomette Valerie (Slave to Fashion) at the mall. We were closest to Dillard's so we started there. Usually not my choice. Macy's has those deals. But we went into Dillard's shoe department and someone actually waited on us, immediately.
And so the Dillard's shoe lady and Boomette Valerie (Slave to Fashion) went to work. First they made me try on a pair with 4 and 1/2 inch heels. Right. That was going to happen. Even if the match was really good. They made me roll up the legs on my black Capri pants so I could look in the shoe mirror and get the effect. All I could see in that shoe mirror was the image of those black pants stopping at my knees and those high, high heels. My reflection looked like it belonged to a Pilgrim with issues.
But then I really lucked out. The second pair of shoes I tried on matched perfectly. I am going to show them to you here and you are going to think that they do not match. The color does not look right on screen. But they do match. Exactly. Boomette Valerie (Slave to Fashion) even took the dress and a shoe out into the parking lot, into the bright daylight, to see if the match worked as well as it did inside. And it did. These things are metallic, although they don't look that way here. The glow or whatever it is works just right with the dress.
OK. This stupid link keeps defaulting to black. The color that matches the dress is called "Oxy Pewter" but even if you switch it to that with the dropdown, it still does not look right on screen. So please take my word for it. It works. Actually it's Boomette Valerie's word, which is much better in matters such as these.
http://www.dillards.com/webapp/wcs/s...ctId=501309021
So anyway, now I just have to practice walking in these things. The heels are 3 inches. Not 4 and 1/2. So somehow it seemed manageable. In the store. And Boomette said that the whole strap thingy the shoe has going on is fashionable. (I was just thrilled that the toe design did not make me look like Boomer the Impaler.)
And then Boomette Valerie (Slave to Fashion) dragged me into Macy's and picked out the perfect pair of earrings.
And then she took me out to lunch.
And all because I pretended that I was going to wear black patent leather shoes with that dress to a wedding where I will be reading and where almost everyone will know that I am Boomette Valerie's mom.
Boomer