Fierce Dress, Fierce Shoes

I got to wear my HP Cosmopolitan dress last night! I worked a fashion show to benefit the National Marfan Foundation. It was a lot of work, with local, semi-professional models. Boy, are there some stories there! Most of the models were incredibly sweet, but I had to dress one, Quennah, who brought the concept of 'beautiful and stupid should not be bitchy as well' to new heights. Oy! I'm pretty darned patient, but I wanted to wring her (size 4) neck on several occasions. But that's a story best told in person over a martini or a glass of wine.

I almost never work shows, but I asked to do this one because we were hosting it along with Beaucage Salon. Beaucage holds a special place in my heart. For 10 years, I sat in the owner's chair every 6 weeks for cut and color, and I wanted to see him again. We parted on great terms, only because I left high-tech and started my own business. The fact is that beauty services at that salon were (kid you not) higher on my monthly expenses than my Mercedes Benz car payment (and I had an E320, so that tells you something). So we caught up last night and spent about an hour jawboning about life, kids, dogs, spouses, houses, business. It was great. I bid on a haircut with him in the silent auction, so hopefully I won.

Of course, if you're going to work a fashion show and wear a fierce dress, you gotta wear fierce shoes to go with it. So I went on a hunt over the last week, and at 3:00 yesterday afternoon, I finally found the perfect pair!

Black patent leather Via Spigas with just a hint of white trim. Perfect! And they were surprisingly comfortable. I wore them without stockings all night, and I was on my feet 90% of that time. The rest of the time I was on my knees hemming and pinning. After 5 hours, my feet actually didn't hurt very much. That's a good shoe, in my book. One other product note: if you have lily white legs like mine, and you want to forego stockings (too matronly) or self tanner (too orangey), I heartily recommend Air Stocking. Great stuff! It covers up everything, but looks really nice. NAYY, I get it at Sephora. It looks much better on than the drugstore brands. And it won't rub off on your clothes.

Hopefully the evening was a great success for the Marfan foundation. It was a lot of fun. Draya (sp?) the photographer, took a bunch of pictures and is going to send them to us, so hopefully I'll post one soon. He got one of me teaching one of the models how to walk (that was a hoot!), that got the whole outfit, so we'll see what he sends. Oh, and one other happy note, one of the bartenders at the club fell completely in love with my La Rue bag, and commissioned me to make one for her!

I'm finishing up one last task for the super triple secret project, then I'll post that tutorial. Promise!