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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Going crazy over hot pink stilettos
I have lost my mind. It all
became clearly apparent
thanks to a pair of hot pink
patent leather, four-inch
stiletto high heels designed
by a man with a name diffi
cult to pronounce.
The Neiman-Marcus cata
log arrived. The one that
always has a notice printed
on the front that threatens
to discontinue sending the
expensive, stylish propagan
da if I don’t order soon. It
always sternly states that it
will be my last but it never
is, despite the fact that I
never can seem to find a
$3,500 suit that strikes my
fancy. I was flipping through
its pages the other day when
first I saw them. My heart
jumped with the delight of a
child on Christmas morning
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Earl and Joy Sellers of Perry celebrated their 50th wed
ding anniversary on Dec. 18, 2004. Their four daughters,
with their families, hosted a reception at the Perry
Country Club. Approximately 100 guests congratulated
the couple while enjoying refreshments and a slide show
of the past.
Their daughters are Debbie Stillwell, Pam Doyle, Sarah
Andrews and Cindy Maddox. All 12 of their grandchildren
were in attendance. Their nieces, Brenda Crumley of
Winder, and Joy Brown of Jefferson, served the cake and
punch.
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Columnist
when I eyed the hot pink
Manolo Blahnik pumps that
were cotton candy pretty
and, to me, just as sweet. In
a crazed frenzy, I grabbed
the phone to place my order
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for the jazzy shoes.
“I’m sorry,” the nice lady
in Dallas, Texas said. “But
we’re completely out.”
“But I just got the catalog
today!” I protested.
“It’s a misprint. We don’t
have the shoes.”
Neiman-Marcus may not
have had them but I was
determined that I would.
That’s before I realized I
had finally lost my ever-lov
ing mind. I didn’t know then
that it was gone like the
blooms from a Bradford
pear tree on a wildly windy
spring day.
I spent all morning on the
phone, calling snooty stores
from coast-to-coast, begging
them to sell me a pair of
SSOO shoes. From Bergdorf
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Goodman in New York to
Barneys in Los Angeles and
all snooty points in between,
I called and begged in a
pathetic, unattractive way.
This is simply absurd:
Begging stores to take SSOO
from me for one pair of
shoes. One by one, they all
told me that the shoes were
sold out before they hit the
stores. How on earth do
shoes sell out before they get
to the store? Especially
when they cost $500?
Never fear, though. God
takes care of drunks, fools
and impetuous women who
fall in love with a pair of hot
pink high heels that are
nothing short of darling. You
know how fashion maga
zines will take the pricey
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fashion version and then
show the reasonably priced
one? Well, that’s what hap
pened to me. I was shopping
and, accidentally, found the
poor girl’s version of the
Manolos: hot pink patent
leather with pointed toes
and three-inch high heels.
On sale, they cost a tenth of
the price of the others. The
extra inch on the Manolo
heels cost $450, pretty
expensive for a tiny piece of
spindle. I snapped them up
and, in the bargain, discov
ered that my mind had only
been temporarily misplaced.
Not lost completely.
I’m worried, though.
Mama always says that
crazy runs in the family.
And although Southerners
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wear craziness like a badge
of honor, I was hoping to put
it off for a few more years.
Then, when I wasn’t look
ing, I got snookered. It
dressed itself up as a gor
geous pair of stiletto heels
and walked right into my
life.
However, I don’t think
that I was ever in real dan
ger of plunking down SSOO
for a pair of high heels.
Apparently, it is the policy of
those high-saluting, fancy
stores not to sell Manolo
Blahniks to anyone who
cannot correctly pronounce
his name.
Ronda Rich is the author
of “What Southern Women
Know (That Every Woman
Should)” and “My Life In
The Pits.”
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