For going downstairs
You’re looking at “Slinky,” from the Taryn by Taryn Rose line, and it might even be possible to slink in these: they’re light (seven ounces), not so high (2½-inch heel), and apparently generously padded despite their svelteness. I knew nothing about this line, so I plunged into the Web and turned up this tale:
When most orthopedic surgery residents finish a 36-hour shift, there’s nothing they want more than a good night’s sleep. Not Taryn Rose. “I was known to leave the hospital, go straight to Neiman Marcus, and speed shop the last 15 minutes they were open,” says the surgeon turned shoe designer, now CEO of her own $20 million company. Rose loved wearing heels to the hospital but searched fruitlessly for stylish shoes that wouldn’t destroy her feet.
Toward the end of her residency, Rose began to see her fashion quandary as a market opportunity. At first, she fretted about what her peers and family would think. She hailed not only from a conservative field but from a conservative family, which expected her to follow in the footsteps of her physician father. But Rose felt she was onto something. “I feared regret more than I feared failure,” she recalls.
I’m impressed. The Taryn by Taryn Rose line is, they say, “a bit more whimsical” than the company’s first offerings; it’s also priced markedly lower. “Slinky” runs $205, but I’ve seen it as low as $85.
fillyjonk »
3 November 2008 · 10:13 am
If I wanted to ’slink’ in those, I’d need some kind of stickum (maybe the stuff stars use to keep from popping out of those low cut tops?) to glue the back end onto my heel. Otherwise, they’d be an inadvertent upmarket version of those Dr. Scholl’s exercisers on me.
(Yes, I’ve been accused of “walking like a draft horse” but I just can’t quite get that ‘barely touch the ground’ thing down.)
Kay Dennison »
3 November 2008 · 7:22 pm
Not my cuppa either and again, the heels are too high for this old beanpole! LOL
Tatyana »
3 November 2008 · 7:32 pm
Chaz, I have a “heels” present with your name on it posted – accompanied by audio.
CGHill »
3 November 2008 · 7:37 pm
Very nicely sung, even if it does remind me of those damn Yankees. :)
Tatyana »
3 November 2008 · 8:22 pm
OK, is this one better?
CGHill »
3 November 2008 · 9:14 pm
It’s a great song; I was just trying to work in a reference to its origin (the musical Damn Yankees).