Sweet Utterance

Friday, August 27th, 2004 | Personal

The arrival of fall brings so many wonderful things. Brightly colored foliage on the trees. Brisk, cool breezes that make your nose tingle. Manolo Blahnik’s Fall collection.

As I’ve mentioned before, I think I may have a problem saying “no”. Not to people, but to the shoes themselves. They speak to me. They have a hold on me that I stopped trying to fight a long time ago.

During my lunchbreaks here in downton Philly, the streets are packed with Beautiful People buzzing about. Summer heat, sandaled feet. It’s rare, but sometimes I’ll spot a woman strutting in a pair of beauties that may function as high heels but are in essence, works of art. I think she’s initially alarmed when some strange man approaches her and starts asking questions about the shoes she’s wearing. “Who makes them? Where did you get them?” But she smiles when I thank her, remark on how great they’ll look on my wife and move on about my business.

Last week, my wife told me she’d seen a pair of Blahniks that grabbed hold of her while in Neiman’s. I told her of a pair had called out to me from the pages of Neiman’s online store. Lo and behold, we were talking about the exact same pair of black 4″ pumps, aptly named “Utter“.

Utter is exactly what those shoes did. To both of us. God, how I love Fall.