It would seem that my error was thinking that you understood the English language. Your analysis suggests that your fluency is in another language entirely. Frankly Scarlett...

I'm so glad that you've come to mansplain everything to me.

"She sees through my bullshit, she MUST not understand English! I'm going to British Mansplain everything to that empty-headed little dolt!"

B.L.O.W. M.E.

Cautionary comment: "please reconsider that look, as it isn't popular on the West Coast/not the most flattering on all body types/probably isn't suited for the activities of the recruitment round you're describing."

Impolite comment: "you look like a (insert derogatory description here) in that outfit/ that looks like something a _____ would wear."

Falstaff:
The better part of valor is
discretion, in the which better part I have sav'd my life.
Henry The Fourth, Part 1 Act 5, scene 4, 115–121

Bear in mind that this phrase deals with counterfeit appearances, but now has come to be used as a warning to keep one's mouth closed. To put my message in terms that my father taught me: Be quiet, because you're about to get yourself in Big Trouble. Usually followed by the warning about having the last word. And after that, Big Trouble.

ellebud, I'm loving the boots and I owe you an email, hang on, it's coming!

AzTheta: Your father is a wise man...as was William Shakespeare......

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

ellebud those boots sound beautiful. How do you feel about the booties? I love the look but have such a hard time finding ones that look as good on me. The ones I have need to be re-heeled. Ugh. Oh well - winter shoes, I guess I don't need to worry about them in August.

Oh, when I was a kid we lived, briefly in the Bay Area. At that time the "correct" terminology was SAN Francisco. Never, Frisco. NEVER...my mother used that term to a cousin...silence ensued.

I like booties with heels. With short skirts they can look amazing. And they are great with skinny jeans. I have seen some with peep toes which, unless you live in a warm climate makes no sense. (Did I mention my girls wear the same size shoe?). It's warm here most of the year, so they may be a pair or two.

But, as a woman (me) who doesn't have great or good legs...I wouldn't wear them. And, I firmly believe in dressing your age. I detest seeing women in my age group with a mini skirt, tights and booties with a facelift(s) and botox.

Yeah the peep-toe ones make noooo sense to me.

Peep toe anythings usually give me blisters, so I steer clear of them. I am turning into an old fart with big feet who wears comfortable shoes. Heh. No wonder my daughter who shares my shoe size would rather stick crochet hooks in her eyes before borrowing any of mine for any function other than walking up the drive to get the mail. Wait, she won't even do that, she has facebook, twitter and texting.

But I do appreciate the look of a fine shoe or boot.

I like peep-toe pumps. Peep-toe booties escape me, though, especially since I think the booties look best with tights.

I just got back from a NYC-style photo shoot with a photographer/stylist (Keith Bailey) that's done Vogue, Cosmo, etc and one of the looks he put me in was a black lace & purple taffeta dress and black knee-high stilleto boots. I'll post a couple full lengths when I get them back. This has nothing to do with rush because the point was to be vampy, but boots + dress can work.:D

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ymNEZP8vl...ica+094+ed.jpg
Rockin the boots + dress.


OMG...it's huge...I'm trying to fix it!

AlphaFrog: I love your example from your fashion shoot. You look lovely. But I venture a guess that if a pnm showed up in that outfit for Pref it would be the talk of the row.

As you know fashion shoots are different than real life. But yes, boots with dresses can been done successfully.

This is how we spot Californians up here in Seattle. The Natives do NOT put a "the" in front of 405, I-5, etc. It's funny, because I don't use "the" when referring to those freeways up here, but when I go down to L.A. or am referring to the freeways - the SAME freeways - in L.A., I suddenly say "the 405."

Southern Californians prefix with "the" we don't do that where I'm from, which is definitely Northern California.

It wouldn't work here, at the UofA. Just a very different style of dressing overall. Now I'm gonna be searching for the boots + dress look on campus.

Boy you are really driving me down memory lane! I'd completely forgotten about the absence of the article "the" when talking freeways.

So, I am confused: I'm going on 405? No...I'm going ON the 405. I'm taking the 101....On the other hand, I'm driving up PCH...It just makes sense, in a nonsensical way.

What can I say? We love the "the"

...that possibly explains the frequency it shows up in the nicknames for places around SC...The 9-0, The 2-9, The Lot, The Mansion, The Lab, The Spot, The Court, The Villas, (The Row....I guess instead of fraternity row?)...etc

then again, contrary to popular belief NO one says 'The O.C.'!