| Wedding shoes - they don't have to last forever | | Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:54:32 PM by Kate Grant |  I always think about Cinderella's glass slipper as the representative of all beautiful shoes. She was the bell of the ball, and why won't you be too, on such an important and significant day?
Wedding shoes don't necessarily need to match your dress perfectly. Sometimes, a little twist, like wedding shoes in rainbow colors, will make your look more interesting. If comfort is what you look for, try sneakers or tennis shoes.
If you're dress is long enough, no one will notice... If this look is too sporty for you, wedding ballet shoes with low heels have made a comeback. Even Jimmy Choo have them in his collection. If your wedding reception takes place on a beach somewhere (Lucky you!), the best option is to go barefoot or wear beach wedding shoes, aka white or ivory thongs.
These will probably also come cheaper than a formal wedding shoe. Sometimes you can get a discount on last season wedding shoes, so you might want to check with retailers. Wedding accessories can be found even in places not designated for that purpose.
If you have the talent for it, you can even make them yourself. All you need is a glue gun and some inspiration...
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| | | Projections off the runway | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:17:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | What with satellite TV and the Internet, we are bombarded by global fashion trends. But how do you know whats going to be hot in Malaysia next year? DZIREENA MAHADZIR quizzes the editors of a couple of the most stylish womens magazines around, the deputy editor of a well-known mens magazine and a veteran fashion stylist for answers. .... | |
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| | | World-class films at new Italian cinema | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:26:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | From the end of World War II through the 1960s, Italian cinema was the dominant foreign cinema in the United States, with filmmakers such as Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti emerging as household names, and later artists such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini exerting a real influence on American cinematic life. A new film from one of these masters was a cause for excitement, and virtually anyone who knew anything about movies could recognize a neorealist film or differentiate a Fellini from an Antonioni effort. These films were foreign but not foreign in feeling any more than the experience of wearing Italian shoes or an Armani jacket. Things have changed since the 1970s. Even in San Francisco, which gets just about everything New York and Los Angeles get, there's been a dearth of Italian films.... | |
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| | | Residents share their soggy stories | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:26:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cal Walters, 79, returned from a four-day elk hunt Tuesday to find that his Sandy Bend-area home off West Side Highway had become an island --- with hundreds of gallons of motor oil spreading across the rising, hip-deep water.An old tank in the yard of Walters' neighbor Larry Dent was leaking its into the Cowlitz River floodwaters. .... | |
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| | | Column: Election Day will tell which economic message stuck | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:20:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | Niki Davis works days at her mother's bridal shop on Lafayette Street in downtown Greenville. In the evening, she steps next door to make pizzas. Her husband, Jim, drives a truck. Previously they assembled refrigerators at the Electrolux factory that was the economic mainstay of this quaint, rural community of 8,000 northeast of Grand Rapids. After the plant closed its doors for good in March, the Davises lost their $12- and $17-an-hour jobs, a solid middle-class household income. Some of the jobs went to South Carolina, but most were shipped to Juarez, Mexico, where the pay is $1.57 an hour. Niki Davis said their household income is about 40 percent of what it was, but she's thankful she and her husband have a fixed-rate mortgage.... | |
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| | | Electronic Arts Shoots Higher | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:50:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Electronic Arts (ERTS) has suffered recently from setbacks such as delayed games, higher licensing costs, and disappointing sales. But shares surged 12% on Nov. 3, after the video game-maker said next year will turn out better than initially thought. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company reported on Nov. 2 that net income was $22 million, or 7 cents per diluted share, during the fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30. That's down sharply from the company's net income of $51 million, or 16 cents per share, in the prior year. The company has fought to keep growing. It partnered with Apple (AAPL) to bring its games to the iPod, bought the European game developer Phenomic Games, and closed its acquisition of the multiplayer online game maker Mythic Entertainment.... | |
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| | | 'I need to blaze my own trail' | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:17:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | He'd worked until midnight, drank late-night beers with the boys, and as a mid-winter dawn broke, Andy Wilson stood in the rutted parking lot of a dingy after-hours bar, pointing his gun at a man who had pushed him too far. "I snapped the other night," Wilson wrote in a mid-February e-mail. "I went out after work on Saturday and a friend of a friend decided to try to tell me what to do. I pulled my gun on him, fired a shot, and have no regrets." He was lying about the last part. Wilson had purposely aimed high and wide, and he was frightened and embarrassed by what he'd done. He apologized, drove the man home, and when he recounted the incident later that week to his veterans support group, he was inconsolable. "He curled up in a ball and just cried," said Will Thiery, a Desert Storm veteran who coordinates the weekly sessions at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton.... | |
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| | | Fighting a killer disease, in killer heels | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:26:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Even before its release, Marisa Acocella Marchetto's "Cancer Vixen" was a huge hit in the blogosphere, generating a tsunami of buzz based on the advance its author received (reportedly one of the highest ever for a graphic novel), the immediate sale of the movie rights (Cate Blanchett is already penciled in to star in the title role), and the photogenic micro-culture at its center (Page Six glitterati browsing and being seen at the trendiest of chic downtown watering holes). Nonetheless, it's weird terrain for a comic book: A fortysomething New Yorker with no health insurance learns she has breast cancer on the eve of her wedding to her dreamboat "fidanzato," a charming, generous, extremely Italian restaurateur. Among the unlikely anti-Marvel Comics panels: a breast being "squeezed, squished, slammed and jammed" during a mammogram; detailed drawings and descriptions of chemo procedures, biopsy needles and test tubes; sobering statistics about breast cancer.... | |
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| | | Neighborhood Bodacious bags to join gift market | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:20:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | The two women were brainstorming handbag ideas, sorting through Robin Roth-Murphy's collection of fabrics and doodads, when one of them turned a lamp shade upside down. A lightbulb went on. That lightbulb will make its marketplace debut next weekend when the women try to sell their lamp shade purses for charity at the Junior League of St. Petersburg's four annual Celebrate the Season Gift Market. Roth-Murphy and business partner Suzanne Runyan add cloth, ribbon, trim, beads and other adornments to lamp shades. Then they attach handles and foundations, and add linings with pieces of jewelry sewn inside, sort of like the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks. Their larger purses are $185; the small ones, $125. Roth-Murphy, a fiber artist with a collection of vintage fabrics and a passion for thrift shops and garage sales, admits that she occasionally overembellishes her creations.... | |
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| | | Too Much Too Soon | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:13:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | Following that cheeky tableau with the slashing chords of Gang of Four's "Natural's Not in It," Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette opens with a shotgun blast at the audience's preconceptions, both of the movie's subject and its style. This Marie will not be the vain class enemy of the popular imagination, imprisoned in the sugar-spun prison of the period piece. The movie's scorched-earth opening is just Coppola's way of reconstructing history on her own terms. .... | |
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| | | Nothing comes between Babes, but everything passes among us | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 1:15:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | I've been in this airport-security line for 45 minutes, my plane leaves at 7:30 a.m. and the three-generation-strong family in front of me just broke out their passports. Drastic times. My Babes are waiting. "Excuse me, but would it be OK if I go in front of your group? My plane leaves — really — in 12 minutes." So I take cuts. On the put-your-shoes-back-on side of the detector, it's 7:23. So I run. And when I get on the plane, they close the door behind me. Really. What's the cause of this queue-jumping and airport-dashing? Ten women I've known for about a decade, a 600-square-foot cabin in the Arizona mountains and enough wine to slosh a wedding party. And don't forget the prom dresses. Babes in the Woods, an annual celebration dreamed up by my friend Dana in 1997, is nothing more than a girls weekend, without the hotel and shopping.... | |
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