Heart and Sole
The Shoes of My Life
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
"There are only two kinds of women in the world, those who love shoes and those who had the misfortune to be born without the ability to experience total bliss on finding a pair of perfectly designed pumps in the right size at half price."
Heart and Sole is a lighthearted illustrated memoir, full of wisdom and humor, of one woman's life through her shoes. Jane Eldershaw remembers the shoes she has loved, the ones that turned out to be terrible mistakes, and the important life lessons she learned along the way. She writes about her first pair of heels (and the battle she had with her mother to get them), the white go-go boots and wooden platform shoes of her youth, and the power of red shoes, as well as how to judge a man by his shoes and the importance of girlfriends when shopping for footwear.
Heart and Sole dishes out shoe advice, fashion memories, and warmhearted observations on the shoes of our lives. The perfect gift for every shoe diva and footwear lover.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Eldershaw is mad for shoes. In this light-hearted memoir, the Australian native and shoe diva guides readers on a tour through her notable footwear, from the first T-straps she teetered in as a toddler to the favorite gold slides and versatile black leather pumps of adulthood. A magazine writer and illustrator, she playfully begins by laying out her"shoe lineage": her main influences were her staid mother, who had two-toned oxfords in every color scheme, and her flamboyant aunt, who had a penchant for stilettos. Eldershaw moves through pivotal go-go boots, platform shoes and career heels, finally culminating in a middle-age embrace of sneakers. Joining her in the feverish quest for the perfect pair is a gang of well-heeled"Imeldas," her friendly shoe fanatics named for the"patron saint of footwear, Imelda Marcos." When Eldershaw sticks to her life and comic advice, the book is fun. She asks in half jest, "Did you know this morning, before seeing these hot-pink stilettos, that they were all it took to make your life meaningful and complete?" Sometimes, though, her familiar observations and gender stereotyping sound flat and shallow ("Shoes are not mere accessories. Shoes are the meaning of life" or "Men buy, women shop"). Still, the author's self-deprecating stories about her"footwear follies" keep this book from being just a cliched celebration of shoes. Scattered throughout are a number of shoe shopping and care tips as well as the author's own cartoon drawings. 64 four-color illustrations.
