A few weekends back my girlfriend was telling me a story that she would share only after mentioning that what she was about to tell me might be too much information. It’s rare for my friends to preface their divulging with a TMI tag - it’s rather difficult to over share with shoedish - but society and nature have us all walking around with tape over our mouths. The Shoe Dish despises censorship, whether it have to do with the things that we say or the clothes that we chose to wear. Take for example these glitzy and ritzy wild on pumps, platforms, and t-straps from Christian Dior’s fall collection. If the fashion police had their way, they’d be blocking this shoe from all sides, sending threats, imposing fines, and generally making sad arguments as to why they should be banned from the feet of thousands of women who just happen to love them. Maybe it’s time for us to over share just a bit. Come on, shoedish fully supports all your dirty little secrets…

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a bakers bootie

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Shoedish is more excited this year than ever before for the explosion in ankle boots and booties! It’s a splendiferous shoe world out there for fall and the shoetie stilettos have us eating out of the soles of their shoes. These sexy peep-toe, quarter-to-ankle tie, booties from Bakers are only the latest to hit The Shoe Dish ‘Want It’ list and have quickly received the coveted six stiletto salute! Complete with a cone heel and suede quarter, these booties have slid comfortably into the spot for the 2009 icon for bootie trends. Cognac is another of those fashion accessories you’ll need to keep your eye on for fall and winter and these booties make the trend sleek, simple, and super unique. All hail the booties for 2009!!

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celebrity shoe star: katie holmes

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And the Celebrity Shoe Star is…Katie Holmes! Okay, okay, we can hear the mutterings now, but all that Hollywood gossip and strangeness that surrounds the new Katie Holmes aside, this girl has some pretty sensational shoes. There’s no doubt that Katie Holmes went from dowdy girl next door to super chic trendsetter in about 2 seconds flat. We’re all about the shoes here at shoedish and when it comes to Katie Holmes, this girls shoe closet is the stuff of fantasies. Hey, let’s be honest here, we too would sell our souls for her soles…TomKat, Aliens, and all.

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Payless the copycat

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Thanks to The Shoe Dish reader, Sandy, for pointing out these pretty Louboutin look-a-likes from the fall collection at Payless. Has shoedish mentioned how much we love Payless? These pretty side cut-out peep-toes are channeling one of shoedish’s favorite designer shoe styles this season - we mentioned just last week - from that high street designer with the famous red bottomed shoes. We covet the Louboutin, but until we reach that fantasy we’ll settle for pretty knockoffs like these. These sweet champagne stilettos almost fill that designer shoe void that keeps us up at night. Complete with metallic gold piping and a 3-inch heel these shoes will make your feet just as splendidly fancy whether you’re strutting across a hometown dance floor, New York City restaurant, or the Emmy Awards themselves.

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so, so, so wrong…

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Shoedish was catching up on some old clippings from Kent Ward’s column yesterday. For those of you who don’t know, Ken Ward is a funny columnist for the Bangor Daily News, who tackles everything from statistics of lightning to the crack down of self expression and he does it all in a cleverly amusing voice. Shoedish has been a fan of Kent Ward for years and we happen to know other readers on the very fringe of this down east readership who are devoted to the column…there’s our little Kent Ward shoutout. But, to get to the point here, his OpEd on the last weekend in July concluded - with a toe wiggle at a topic we discuss all too often on The Shoe Dish and other shoe and fashion blogs of the - that white tube socks should die out as a common fashion staple. Making a claim against fining and even arresting saggy-pant wearers, Ward thinks that we should be more focussed on those who choose to wear white socks in public saying, “There’s your real menace to society, right there.” Amen Kent Ward, shoedish is right there with you…but we’ll add that all socks, black, white, blue, red are wrong, wrong, wrong when worn with sandals!!!

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