Enough with the mom jeans already. Let's obsess about something really important. Like the presidential candidates, co-sleeping, toxic toys, a thousand ways for your family to go green. Or better yet, shoes. That's right. It's no longer acceptable to obsess solely over giant ass pockets (or individually, giant asses or giant pockets) and those zippers that go allllllll the way up. Now you have full and free permission to make your shoes the star of the show, at least for this month. If you love shoes like (ahem) some of us or you have some kind of unspeakable foot fetish you've struggled to contain during Mommy & Me Yoga, well, you must check out Susan Wagner's brilliant shoestravaganza.
Let me back a bit to explain why before what: In the bloggy world, we get all amped up about NaBloPoMo, a challenge to post every single day for the month of November. And while this keeps us amped up with our post-inspiration notebooks tucked into those giant ass pockets for thirty seemingly endless days, it is also a great way to sharpen our skills, write about (more) minutae and bore each other in the name of our art (or meager jobs or impossible dreams of publishing a novel and being Oprah's new BFF who is actually fun to road trip and dish about Stedman with...damn you, Gail). Susan, in her playdatey, coquettish, snarky cheerleader way, has rallied many, many readers to participate in her own much-stylier version, called NaBloShoeMo.
It's not too late! All you have to do, Susan says (and you must obey her if you've ever lusted after the darling suede and cork wedgies paired with the wrap-around A-line skirt in a vintage fabric that the co-op president wears to every summer picnic event), is post a picture of the shoes you wear everyday this month (or as you can, no need to be an A student in the shoe department). It is easy and acceptable to upload photos of any and all shoes you're sporting -- the sassy ones, the uncomfortable pair, the ones with a price tag that exceeded your car payment one month, he grungiest, the stinkiest, the most well-worn, even the MOMMIEST (you totally know what I mean, stop looking at the screen quizically). Trust this mama, once you click on the Flickr pool, you will be consumed by every pair from clicky-clicky heels to clogs. And I guarantee you will completely forget about how long the zipper on your jeans is.
[photo credit: Susan Wagner/BlogHer]
