WRITTEN ON December 14th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN shoes
Tags: manolo blahnik, shoes
A company had them flown in to New Zealand from Barneys in New York. US$865 of Manolo Blahnik goodness. They placed them on a billboard in Auckland, free for the first person to grab them. The billboard said size 8. THAT’S MY SIZE! It was as if we were meant to be.
No, I didn’t get them off the billboard. A guy did and, since he couldn’t find anyone who could fit them, he put them on Trade Me. My lovely Kiwi decided that they would be the perfect Christmas present for me (which is also code for “I made sure I pointed out a good few hundred times how much I wanted them”). He won the auction. A pair of brand new Manolo Blahnik shoes for about 240 euros. Mine, all mine. I WAS IN HEAVEN! But then we went and picked them up.
The size on the billboard was wrong. The shoes were too small. After considering chopping up half of my feet, we managed to sell them for the same money C. had paid for them. I had them for about three days and I’m embarrassed to count the number of times I opened the box just to look at them for a little bit. A pair of little handmade golden pieces of heaven.
The next day, heartbroken, I went and bought another pair of shoes to add to my collection, hoping to somehow make up for the loss. In vain. I’d have to buy about fifty new pairs to make up for that loss.
Anyway, this is the story of how I was given the coolest Christmas present a shoe-addict can ask for and how I had to let it go. Yes, I considered keeping them just so I could look at them every day. But apparently that would have been stupid.
Anyway, goodbye my pretties. I hope you’re happy in someone else’s feet and they treat you with care.
Love,
The person that could almost fit you.
P.s.: Who am I kidding? You’re tiny. I wasn’t even close to fitting you! Stupid giant feet.
4 Responses to “the sad tale of the small shoes”
Nuno wrote on December 16th, 2009 2:41 am :
Humm… I would say that you are the portuguese version of Carrie Bradshaw. LOL.
Do like Charlotte, find a guy in a shoe store with feet fetish, pretend you’re interested, and you’ll get free or discounted price shoes!
By the way, do they have all-star in NZ? Ahaha
kiwivera wrote on December 16th, 2009 4:31 pm :
haha they do have all star in NZ, yes. It’s not all bad! 
Lua wrote on December 21st, 2009 6:54 am :
Oh man… that is sad, very sad 
I think i would have slept with them under my pillow…
Not even 50 pairs would make up for the fact you had manolos!!!! You know what you have to do, buy one’s that actually fit!!! You don’t imagine the joy of coming out of the store with that lovely white bag!!! It’s like you rule the world”!! :)))