I was looking through a catalog the other evening… and couldn’t believe what I saw!  SADDLE SHOES  are now back in style… you know those wonderful white and black ones that laced up… like tennis shoes?

OMG!!!… I had a pair of those shoes… just like the ones I saw the other night in that catalog… in grade school… how many years ago? Well…  how many years ago that was… will be my Victoria’s secret ! But I can tell you this… I loved those shoes… I mean I couldn’t wait to put them on in the morning… with thin white socks…  or the pair of white socks I had that had a small edge of lace at the top.

I felt soooooo sassy in those shoes… soooo… I don’t know… cool perhaps… preppy maybe… a future yuppy ( wait… they didn’t have that word then) !!!  Maybe those shoes just made me feel grade school chic… after all… I was the first girl who got a pair… and the only one who wore them everyday… the whole school year!!!

I can remember the sound they made on the sidewalk… as the heels hit the ground. But the favorite sound they made… at least to my ears… was the sound they made walking across the class room floor to sharpen my pencil… everyone would turn to look… to see who was making that grand  and overly loud waltz to the front of the class…  to sharpen their pencil. Okay… another one of my Victoria’s secrets…. my pencil didn’t always need to be sharpened … it was those shoes… that made me do it!

It was me… walking and a strutting  in my white and black saddle shoes!!!

Seriously… I have never been so smitten with an article of clothing ( are shoes even considered clothing) ?… in my whole life. Or the affect that they had on me… or other people! Unless of course… it was my pair of red flannel pajamas with the black scottie dog print… that I finally had to throw away… because they had so many holes in them… I wore them so much.  Or those lime green Italian sandals… that are to die for… that transport me to Hollywood… or Venice… or Rome… when I just look at them!!!

Never…  so smitten have I been… ever!

And have I shared with you…. how clean I kept those shoes?  No marks on those shoes… not a smudge of dirt anywhere! And I kept them in my closet… on the floor… away from all my other shoes… not that I wore any of my other shoes… once I had those saddle shoes!

So now I have this problem… I want those SADDLE SHOES… I saw the other day….REALLY BAD!  I would wear them believe me. I can hear their sound as I walk… just typing this to you!!!

See what these saddle shoes do to me? And… at my age? I feel like I am robbing the cradle… for a pair of saddle shoes… no less. I can’t help myself!

My teenage daughter would never speak to me again… if I bought those saddle shoes and wore them in public! She would be appalled.

So…. I have a plan… a secret plan… I will buy my white and black saddle shoes… next week… and keep them at the back of my closet… away from all my other shoes…. and when no one is home… I will wear my saddle shoes once again!

And feel sassy once more… and maybe… even young again… as long as I don’t look at myself in the mirror.

And they will be my ultimate Victoria’s secret!!! Forever!

Shhhhh!

Victoria