In my continuing topic of shoes...

Scouring the internet to find good deals on shoes I find myself "googling" like my life depended on it.  I have come across so many other blogs obsessing about their love of shoes.  While I am admittedly am one of those women who has a constant love affair with footwear and an unhealthy (albeit controlled) addiction to expensive footwear, I still can't help but wonder.  Are we all that crazy?

Crazy over something that adorns our feet? Where does the obsession come from? Undoubtedly, I would think some fault lies with mainstream media...I would love to meet a woman who had not heard or likened herself to the antics and shopping addictions of Carrie Bradshaw.  We all swooned over the Manolo Blahnik "Something Blue" heel from the movie. (I am still swooning..and obsessing...and saving my pennies...and scouring for maybe a consigned pair somewhere...*ahem* but I digress).  Are we misplacing feelings that should maybe go elsewhere...into shoes? I mean Carrie had love problems for the entire series of Sex and the City but rest assured the one constant in her life was her shoes (and probably her credit card debt)...

I am not casting judgement on us shoe obsessed gals, because I will defend, as Carrie Bradshaw so gracefully put it, "a woman's right to shoes".  What else can we count on, but the beautiful shoes on our feet.  Do you think the media plays on our vulnerability of shoe love?  I mean...when the SATC movie came out, the "Something Blue" shoes were stated as being $525...but when they hit stores, they went to $925...and still all these years later are still that high in price... and we flocked to purchase them...Are we that easy?

I have done some research and read some articles and have now learned that the love of shoes actually has some historical and even scientific justification...I will not bore you with the history or science details, but I encourage you to research it.   It might help with any guilt feelings lingering after purchasing that last pair of shoes... But it is a true love story with women and shoes and it usually has a happy ending.  We find excitement and joy with a new pair of shoes...the smell of leather and the feeling of almost power with those stilettos on your feet...and the branding geniuses behind the footwear companies know this...They know the "high" that is achieved when we buy shoes...and why not bank on that right? 

I will continue to buy and obsess over shoes and whenever my bank account can afford it, will give into the temptations of designer footwear...