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Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More

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So I bought this for my boyfriend...he owns a shoe store.

He keeps this little book in the back of the store; in his office.

One day I asked him why it never came home. He told me...when im having a bad day I read a few pages. He explained that he laughs and smiles at some of the shoes that have been designed. There are creepy, weird, wonderful, fantastic and OMG where do I get that shoes in this book.Hundreds of full color pictures!

The factoids in this book are quiet interesting. I will admit...I didn't know there was so much to know about shoes.

If your looking for a small gift, perhaps a stocking stuffer, this is a great gift for any shoe lover.

Definitally glad I made this purchase.

Sandals,platforms,heels.A real feast of footwear is shown within the pages of this compact(but quite thick)book. Great fun to flip through and a great resource for research as well..!

This book contains fluent, erudite words about shoes, but who cares? The point of the book is the luscious photography -- beautiful, enticing images of a large number of shoes.

If you have friends who also love shoes, get a copy for each one and you can sit around for hours saying "omigosh, look at page 501!" and "wow, Carly Jane, page 347 is just what you need!" This is a whole lot more fun than it sounds, actually.

And you can always place the book on your coffee table where it will (a) take up very little physical space and (b) end up enticing everyone who sits down in your living room into developing a shoe fetish.

Seriously, this is a well-researched, beautifully photographed, elegantly written gem of a book. If you happen to like shoes, you really owe it to yourself to obtain a copy of it.

This book is worth the purchase just for the forward! It features wonderful comments and quotes like, "When it comes to shoes, practicality and comfort are beside the point." And, "...You look down at your feet and wink at yourself." But the photos are stunning and the information delightful! Terrific fun for the footwear fancier.

This is a very small book about a very big topic - ladies shoes which have a long tradition of making women look and feel better. The author Linda O'Keeffe starts with the history of shoes and covers different areas such as sandals, heels, slippers, black dress shoes, boots, platform shoes, fetish shoes and art shoes. She also has little features on famous shoe designers such as Andre Perugia, Roger Vivier, Manolo Blahnik, David Evins, Patrick Cox, Dave Little, Salvatore Ferragamo, Vivienne Westwood and Beth Levine. What makes this book so attractive are the many excellent pictures of different shoe designs.

A great coffee table book for shoes! Color photos with history on every page. Lots of trivia like showing Elizabeth Taylor's beautiful high heel shoes worn during Cleopatra, famous shoe designers favorite high heels like Ferragamo's fantasy shoes, Manolo Blahnik's amazing shoes for different eras, David Evins rhinestone "stop and go" mules for Ava Gardner in 1955 & a twisted pearl sandal for Grace Kelly in 1959. Lots of interesting tidbits throughout and well worth the money to buy this book. If you enjoy shoes you'll love this book! :)

I was truely impressed with this book. Small and inexpensive, the color photography is clear and unfettered with "ambient props" (the shoes are presented with no backgrounds). The text is concise, informative and witty. While the writing gives historical background, the book makes no pretense of being an indepth scholarly treatise on the history of footwear in the mode of Colin McDowell or June Swann. This is a great nutshell overview of women's shoes; fun and useful for scholars as well as students of shoe design (it includes works by both students and teachers at Fashion Institute of Technology), and your everyday shoe lover. Given the expense of producing books with color photography, this is a great bargain.

I was truely impressed with this book. Small and inexpensive, the color photography is clear and unfettered with "ambient props" (the shoes are presented with no backgrounds). The text is concise, informative and witty. While the writing gives historical background, the book makes no pretense of being an indepth scholarly treatise on the history of footwear in the mode of Colin McDowell or June Swann. This is a great nutshell overview of women's shoes; fun and useful for scholars as well as students of shoe design (it includes works by both students and teachers at Fashion Institute of Technology), and your everyday shoe lover. Given the expense of producing books with color photography, this is a great bargain.

This is a cute little (literally) book about shoes, the history of shoes and the style of shoes. It's a great reference book in terms of different styles. I wonder how many women bought and wear the giraffe shoes? (which by the way is the most creative pair of shoes in the book.)

This book is never far from me! It's the best visual stimuli for my shoe-lovin' soul!