Okay! It’s Trixie here, and as you can easily see, we have some new shoes. Aren’t they beautiful? So stylish! But shoes do not exist in a vacuum. They are always included as some sort of fashion outfit. So with that in mind, the question becomes: how would a Whimsie use such beautiful shoes? We’re here to find out.
As you can see, these shoes are mostly fancy, so we made an agreement that we would try to find the fanciest outfits we could to show off our new shoes. Of course, the fanciest outfits we have are our Christmas dresses, and we’re not quite ready for that yet! So we decided instead to go with some simple dresses and skirts. And here’s what we came up with.
I’ll go first, since I think my shoes are the fanciest. They are white patent leather, tied up with great big white bows. If you ask me, these look like “tap shoes,” which are for dancing, and if I had a video camera, you would see that I did quite a bit of dancing while wearing these shoes, and they dance very well, except that they don’t actually have taps on the bottom. But if they did, I would be tapping up a storm!
I paired me white patent leathers with a white and black zebra striped dress. Animal prints are so wild and fun! And then I remembered our new black hat, with just the little trim of white around the edge and thought…why not? They go together perfectly! I also decided to wear some very fancy white lacy socks with this outfit. I love how the hat and the dress are so casual and fun, but the shoes and socks are very la-dee-da fancy. When you look at me here, you don’t know if I’m coming or going! And that’s just fine, because I’m dancing so fast, you wouldn’t be able to tell anyway! This outfit is just too much fun!
Now let’s take a look at Tessie. She’s got a bit of pink and white stripes going on, to help show off her new shoes…which are most peculiar, because really….what the heck is going on with these shoes? I mean, they’re clearly sneakers, which are the upmost in casual footwear, but not only are they pink, they’re covered with sparkles!! Sparkly pink sneakers! Oh my! The Fashion Diva in me is left absolutely breathless. I can’t wait to put on these sparkly pink sneakers with some of my favorite pink outfits. Not only do they look super sharp, but Tessie reports they are absolutely as comfortable as you would expect any pair of sneakers to be.
You’ll notice she’s posing on the bed, but Miss Chrissy says that was okay because 1) the shoes are new, so the bottoms are not dirty, and B) she’s getting ready to change the sheets anyway. Tess just decided hanging out on a bed was the best way to express how totally comfortable she feels in her playful ensemble with the shiny pink sneakers!
And oh…now…at last we come to the very best of all. Because I think no one can top how totally stlish and gorgeous Miss Tillie looks in her fancy outfit with her fancy new golden shoes. Did you hear me? Can you see? GOLDEN shoes! But really, they’re more like slippers, almost like ballerina slippers, slip-ons with a simple X strap across the top. The shoes are great, of course, but look at the outfit Tillie has put together to show them off! That skirt she’s wearing…well, I’ll let you in on a little secret: it’s not really a skirt! Actually, it IS a skirt, but it’s a “tree skirt” for a very tiny Christmas tree. It just so happens that the size of the base of a very small Christmas tree is exactly the same as a Whimsie’s waistline, so Tillie has simply tied this “skirt” around her waist, and doesn’t it look festive, paired with a simple black turtleneck?
“That’s the trick to fashion,” Tillie explains. “It works best if you have a focal point of one item.” In this case, actually, it’s not the turtleneck, and it’s NOT the shoes, it’s the skirt! Although, with that sparkly golden bow in her hair, I have a hard time deciding if maybe that’s the focal point! On thing for sure, with her golden shoes, golden hair, golden sparkly skirt, and golden sparkly bow, Tillie certainly does sparkle in this outfit! And, of course, she gets extra points for the resourceful, creative use of a non-clothing item. But that’s our Tillie—always using her noggin in amazing ways!
We always have so much fun when we get new clothes (and new shoes!) and get to rummage through our wardrobe to put together new looks to share with you here. However, as we prepared for this photo shoot, one thing was very obvious: our Wardrobe is getting so BIG, it’s totally out of control!! It’s almost impossible to find anything anymore. Well, we can find anything we need, it just takes a long, long time, because there are so many clothes to go through! So our next project, here in Whimsieville, is to do a total reorganization of our Wardrobe! All our shoes together in one place, all our hats together in another, all tops, all bottoms, all dresses, all socks, etc. etc. I’m imagining this could take all day. But that’s okay, because we have the whole day ahead of us. Miss Chrissy is making some hot chocolate with mini-marshmallows and whipped cream, and with that sweet treat to fortify us for the task at hand, we’ll get right down to business. And, with any luck at all, the next time you see us, we should be Totally…Organized…Whimsies!
Best of all: who knows what new delights we might find buried deep in the bottom of our Wardrobe? Beautiful things we’ve totally forgotten we have? This could be an adventure of great discovery. I’m ready!
