[lace-chat] Re: Red Shoes
At 11:16 PM 12/6/03 +, Brenda Paternoster wrote: Can you still get ox-blood shoe polish? (in UK). I've got a pair of burgundy/red shoes that would really benefit from ox-blood polish rather than the colourless stuff I'm currently using on them. I don't know whether you could *ever* buy oxblood. I polished them with brown stain polish -- which didn't change the color until they got so worn that I had to use Scuff-Coat. Maybe you could mix red and brown wax, or use them alternately? I haven't bought anything but black for the last thirty years, so I don't know whether red is still available. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where our first snowfall came down wet and now is crunchy. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Red Shoes
On 8 Dec 2003, at 17:49, Joy Beeson wrote: I don't know whether you could *ever* buy oxblood. I polished them with brown stain polish -- which didn't change the color until they got so worn that I had to use Scuff-Coat. it wasn't real blood from oxen, just the name given to a dark red/burgundy colour shoe polish, and certainly you could get it in the 50s and 60s. Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ Supporting the [EMAIL PROTECTED] campaign To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Red Shoes
On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 16:15 US/Eastern, Brenda Paternoster wrote: it wasn't real blood from oxen, just the name given to a dark red/burgundy colour shoe polish, and certainly you could get it in the 50s and 60s. And well into the 80ties in Poland. I used to buy a box of it every trip back, because I liked it on my cordovan shoes better than brown. For all I know, it might be available still, but I got tired of polishing shoes and don't need it any more. - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 5 Dec 2003, at 23:39, Joy Beeson wrote: I may have had a pair of red shoes as a child -- I certainly did if you count oxblood, because I recall how disappointed I was when I had to scuff-coat them brown -- but I'm not sure they weren't patent leather. Can you still get ox-blood shoe polish? (in UK). I've got a pair of burgundy/red shoes that would really benefit from ox-blood polish rather than the colourless stuff I'm currently using on them. BTW I've had lots of red shoes over the years. I currently have a pair of stiletto heeled summer sandals (too high for comfort) a pair of nearly flat sandals - bought for Marie's wedding but they kept slipping off so bought some glittery gold shoes for the UK reception; might get another chance to wear them again over Christmas, and I *think* there's a pair of red suede boots lurking somewhere in the attic Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ Supporting the [EMAIL PROTECTED] campaign To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Red Shoes
With my first real paycheck, I bought a typewriter. I may have had a pair of red shoes as a child -- I certainly did if you count oxblood, because I recall how disappointed I was when I had to scuff-coat them brown -- but I'm not sure they weren't patent leather. Whether red or patent leather, I once had a pair of shoes that could be worn only to church and to parties, at a time and place when even people who had stopped growing gave their all-occasion shoes an extra polish on Saturday night. Since growing up, I've been lucky to have shoes at all -- I was downright heartbroken when I couldn't get into the jackboots that were all the rage, and after my old shoe-fitter retired, I spent several years wearing sneakers and stage shoes. Luckily, the period when cotton house slippers from China were in fashion was at the beginning of this time -- I pinned them on and wore them everywhere, even hiking. I've been shod ever since learning that one can buy Red Wings at a shoe store that's near a factory, or one that advertises steel-toed shoes. Red Wing discontinued the model that looked half-way decent, of course, and replaced the discreet pressed-into-the-leather wing with a red billboard on the heel, but I cover that with periodic applications of black permanent marker. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we are having our first real snow of the year, and it's soggy. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: red shoes
No, I never had red shoes. I have the family Frisian feet, wide across the toe (4) and narrow at the heel (2). When I find shoes that just plain fit, it's a cause for celebration, doubly so if they're not tan boats. And if they fit at the toe AND the heel, heck, I'd throw a party just for the shoes as guests of honor! When I buy shoes, I walk down the row to my size (approx. US 9), look for 9Wide, xxx out all the tan boats, and pick from what's left. Boo hoo, I can't remember that what's left has ever been red! My red-shoe equivalent was a pair of knee-high zip-up suede boots that I wore and wore and wore until the synthetic rubbery soles got some kind of plastic disease and started to stick to things. My current equivalent is a little pair of suede ankle boots made in Rumania or some lovely European country where feet are not size 3 and 2 inches wide. They fit at the toe AND the heel, and I've worn them to enough parties, I guess they do deserve their own by now. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Red Shoes
Now my query is this, how many are there of you out there who have NEVER owned a pair of red shoes? You can count me for one. Eva, Haltern, Germany To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Now my query is this, how many are there of you out there who have NEVER owned a pair of red shoes? Apart from some tap shoes when aged about 5, NEVER and no enthusiasm for red at all! Sue To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Liz, and Lacemakers, - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linda Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Re: Red Shoes Linda, It's about Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz - red sparkly shoes, click your heels three times and say 'there's no place like home', 'there's no place like home', 'there's no place like home' Liz Many thanks - now I understand. Here I must admit my cultural backwardness and confess that I've neither read the book nor seen the film - so I'm always missing references. The nearest I've ever come is the embarrassing experience - (toe-curlingly, squirmingly, excrutiatingly embarrassing experience) - of watching a younger cousin sing her party-piece: On The Good Ship Lollipop. Thanks to all the Powers That Be that we don't have to do party pieces any more! Does anyone? Well, maybe when I was in the Women's Institute - that was something they left out of Calendar Girl . . . no - let's not go down that road. Anyway: I stopped inflicting party-pieces on them some time ago. Am I forgiven? Yours sincerely, Linda Walton. (Blushing as red as her knickers!) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Red shoes
I've never bought red shoes, but my first pair of ballet shoes were red leather. When I was a teenager, I bought a pair of yellow plastic platform clogs, with 5 or 6 heels. I had a matching yellow blouse too, and the first time I wore the ensemble, I walked into town and thought I was the bee's knees. I tripped over in the darn things twice, the second time in front of some boys of my own age who laughed at me. I was mortified! I've never had any desire to buy yellow (or red) shoes since... Regards, Annette, London To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Red shoes
Hi All, I'm another member of the red shoes club. I have a pair of red flats that I love to wear. For some reason I feel having shoes to match the color of an outfit (or accessory) is the height of fashion! I also have a pair of red espadrilles with a wedge for a heel. I sewed red sequins all over them so they are my Ruby Slippers. I'm drooling over all the tales of red spike heels G. With my first real paycheck I bought a black wool cape, mid-calf length with a big hood. I think my Goddaughter has it now, she wore it for Halloween one year. One day I was walking home from work in Philadelphia, down the parkway in front of the Art Museum for you who know the area. It was in the winter so it was dark and the wind was blowing and I had the hood up. A policeman at the crosswalk said I didn't know what was coming towards me! G. Jane in Vermont, USA where we have a dusting of snow and the balmy mid-40s F (6-7C) has turned to windy 25 F (-5C) - B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Red shoes
On Tuesday, Dec 2, 2003, at 06:55 US/Eastern, Lynne Cumming wrote: Now my query is this, how many are there of you out there who have NEVER owned a pair of red shoes? Sorry, not me :) My first pair of heels (modest 1.5 or so, and not tapered to a point) were beige; took a lot of begging (I was 14) to get them and they had to go with everything. The first (and only; I learnt quickly g) pair of pointy-toed, stilletto-heeled shoes, acquired (again, by whining) at 16, was white. But, that same year, I got (my first money) a pair of bright-red, flat-heel, round-nose, strap-through-the-instep (Mary Janes?) ones and adored them for years, until they could be fixed no longer. Red and black felt (with black leather toes and heels) Cossac boots were next and those, too, were loved through several winters. Had a pair of red sandals my first year in the US -- sadly gone now. And I have a pair of summer weight red moccasins -- the most comfortable shoes ever (almost like slippers), which I treasure and wear as little as possible because, once they go, I won't be able to either get them fixed or to replace them... I have a photo for posterity (taken with my new digital camera - cheap from Lidl but it's not at all bad for the price) if anyone wants to drool! Please? - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
