Yay, Women!

Today is International Women's Day.  As a woman who knows lots of amazing women, I say hell yeah to International Women's Day.  It could be argued that doing a shoe post to celebrate isn't very enlightened or feminist, but oh well.  I'm not insisting women should wear heels, I'm not saying all women love shoes, I'm just writing a silly blog post, not intended to offend or minimize anyone or anything.  If you want something with a little more substance then check out these young women dressed up as amazing women from history.  It's pretty awesome.  If I weren't so tired I would try to write a more substantive post, but alas, I will have to leave that to others tonight, most of whom are more than likely to be better written and/or spoken than I.  

According to Wikipedia, the first occurrence of  this day was in 1909, so I decided to look at shoes from each decade since.  As always, I make no claims that the dates of these shoes are accurate.

1909 wedding shoes!

1919.  The shoes are cool, but I especially like that this picture shows a bit of the dresses, too.

1929.  Not my favorite color, necessarily, but you know I love t-straps.  I like to try and imagine fun outfits that would go with these.

 

1939.  These are really kind of weird, but really interesting.

1949.  They're a little clunky, but also really fun.  Again, I'm imagining outfits.  And hair.  Really awesome 40s hair like Victory rolls.

1959. LOVELOVELOVE.

1969.  I chose this picture more for the tights than the shoes.  The shoes are cool, but those tights are amazingly crazy.

1979.  Crazy heels aren't a new thing, y'all!

1989.  Is that measuring tape?  I mostly chose this pair because the heel shape is so very 80s.

1999.  Had to go with a good, chunky heel for the 90s.

2009.  Where's the arch support?  But I like the colors.

2016.  I love these, too.  I'm not this pretty or dainty, but I still love these.

Thank you to women everywhere for everything they do, for those who have gone before to pave the way, and those who continue to work and fight.

Memory Lane:  2013. 2014. 

3 Things:

1. All of the fabulous women in my life:  Moms, grandmas, sisters, friends, aunties, nieces mentors.
2. Coffee with one of those fabulous women.  I needed some social time away from the office.
3. Some forward movement on potential moving (do you like that vague play on words?).

Time

In some ways I can't believe it's already December 7th.  Time flies!  In other ways, how can it only be December 7th?  I feel like I've done a ton of December stuff already.  Time is weird.  It was a good day, though.  The hubby and I took SKD out for breakfast and then she and I had our toes done.  I'd show you, but my feet are currently encased in tights and I'm not willing to strip down to take a picture.  Sorry.  Anyhoo, then I was home for a couple of hours, the hubby and I ran an errand, and then I drove to church for the Christmas dinner fundraiser that the Youth put on.  It was nice, good group of people, lots of fun stuff for the raffle items.  I'm ready for bed, though.  December is tiring, y'all.  Since this is post kind of about time, I thought I'd give you the week's calendar offerings:

 

 

I like these.  I think I might like them better if the heel weren't patterned, but that's a minor detail.

 

Really like these.  They are from 1885, which only makes them cooler to me.

 

And then the 90s had to come in and ruin things with a slingback.  These are fine, they just remind me that I am bitter over not being able to wear slingbacks.

 

80s boots.  Yikes.

 

Stripes!  From the 60s.

 

These are my favorite of the week!  They are from 1925 and for once I'm actually glad I get to look at the same shoe for 2 days.  Usually they put the most god-awful ones on the weekend.  So rude.

 

Happy Saturday night.  Off to bed now.

 

Preschool Harvest Fest

Today was the annual Halloween celebration for the church preschool.  It's my 4th since starting this call, and it is so much fun to see the kids all dressed up in their costumes. They get to play games, decorate cookies, do crafts, have their faces painted, etc.  The staff does a great job of setting everything up and making sure everyone has a great time.  I never used to really get into Halloween until I started here and started dressing up for the Harvest Fest.  My first year I was a go-go dancer (sort of) and had awesome white boots.  The 2nd year I went the poodle skirt route (yaaaay saddle shoes!).  Last year I had a Renaissance dress.  This year I went as a flapper:

 

 

This is the dress, although the I didn't accessorize quite the same.  I even already owned the perfect shoes for the occasion:

 

 

I bought these a few years ago for a wedding. You can tell they aren't new by the lovely marks on the side of the heel.  Anyway, I knew I had cute burgundy t-straps so I got a black dress and a burgundy boa.  The boa turned out to be more purple, but oh well.  At least I have another year to figure out the next costume.  Or I could just go back to the poodle skirt; as long as The Bean sends me back the saddle shoes...

 

 

I Remembered!

Ha!  I remembered!  It's Handbag Tuesday, actually being brought to you on Tuesday!  Hey, I'll take my accomplishments where I can get them.  Today's number choice comes to us from our fabulous Preschool Director (I asked her to choose a number and she said, "why?" really skeptically.  My poor staff puts up with a lot from me).  Anyhoo, she chose number 65.  You are actually getting pages 64 and 65 since the picture took up both pages.  Woohoo!  2 for 1!

 

This is a beaded Art Deco evening bag from around 1920.  It's pretty.  I like the detailing.  It makes me think of scenes from parties in books like The Great Gatsby.

 

I also have a book called SHOES that sits on my shoe shrine table.  It was a gift for one of my wedding showers last summer.  I figured since I have it and I'm highlighting the Handbags book it might also be fun to show the corresponding page in the shoe book.  Page 65 in shoes does NOT go with page 65 in handbags (not that I really expected it to).

 

 

If  you can read it, the top of the page says The "Invisible" Sandal. I have to say, I'm not terribly impressed.  See-through shoes like this tend to put me in mind of strippers.

 

So there you have it...from glamorous handbag to stripper shoes!

 

 

I Heart Books

If you've met me then you know that I love to read.  I would rather read than do almost anything else, and often I wish I could read while doing other things.  I read novels, mysteries, memoirs, historical fiction, fantasy, and I have a whole list of favorite authors.  One of these authors is Jane Austen.  I love her.  Charlotte Bronte, too.  Emily not so much.  I struggled through Wuthering Heights, and wanted to slap every character in it.  I have read the Jane Austen books multiples times, especially Pride and Prejudice.  I even read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies just for kicks.  I've read some of the Jane Austen fan-fic stuff, too.  Some of it is good, others not so much.  I bring this up, because the other day I was on Pinterest poking around (I still have no idea if I'm doing it "right") and found this:

 

 

Which, I thought was really cool, but it was filed under the Jane Austen section, and these dates range from 1890-1920.  NOT the right era.  But still, we all know how I love a good button hook, and the shoes to go with them.  I would totally wear those boots.  And I've posted some similar shoes to the ones in the top row, before.  I'm sure those decades had some lovely books attributed too them as well.

 

Decades

I was recently googling random terms looking for shoe ideas.  I started typing "shoes worn..." and up popped different decades.  For instance, shoes worn in the 20s.  There are pictures of shoes, pictures of outfits, pictures that clearly aren't from anything to do with the 20s.  But it's fun to peruse.  For instance, I'm not sure if these are actually from the 20s or just reminiscent of the style, but how fun are these?

 

 

Mary Janes and T-straps...really, what's not to love?  There are search results for other decades too, of course, but I think I will hold those in reserve for days when I need something to type about.