Style

It was a very windy here, bringing in very cold air.  Some of you have been in the cold for several days and don't want my whining.  Please know, though, that I actually envy your cold and snow.  Not how dangerous it can be, but how beautiful.

Y'all know how much Internet scrolling you can do when you don't feel like doing much else.  Today I wound up at the website of a store called Pull and Bear, and this platform shoe stopped me cold:

I won't buy a pair (aged out of them, you know), but they fascinate me for some reason.  It may be the cut of the heel.  It's almost architectural.  I don't know --- they just strike a chord somewhere somehow.  And if you must know, I did indeed once own a pair of slingback platforms.  They were white.  I distinctly remember wearing them on two extremely different occasions: my grandfather's funeral and the wedding of one of my cousins.  Come to think of it, I may have worn the same dress to both...