Longtime readers know that one of my favorite blogs of pop culture ever invented is Smart Bitches Trashy Books, offering a home for readers of romance (they are legion) both love their books and laugh at their books. Is a community of enthusiasts, that is because his boss Sarah Wendell, was the natural ally of a graduate student named Rudi, who did an art project that Sarah has immediately given a simple, evocative title when viewing on its website: "The most awesome shoes in the universe".
They are the heels, decoupaged with small copies of real romance novels, with pink trim at the Sun. And not for display — are to be worn. At first glance, the shoes look just like the most explosive darling display of fantasy that you will ever see in your life, and who, I am sure. Are made with great care and love, you can say, and while decoupage shoes are a fairly common craft project (try an image search for "decoupage shoes"), these are something special.
And what really caught my attention was "education" by Rudi, who complains that readers of the novel are judged so often literally from the covers of their books. Rudi says, "to take an object that maintains a tradition of femininity and sexuality and covering it in images from romance covers that I created a job that allowed me to perform and celebrate my love of romance novels wherever I went in an act of subversion.
There is a special charm to these, for me, because women's fiction has become so linked in pictures of shoes — many of these covers are more traditional romance, but more contemporary romantic (and other fiction marketed for women) is absolutely crawling with covers that prominently feature shoes. To mash up shoes and romance fiction is particularly pointed and big and delicious.
These shoes are cute, but they are not only cute, but I'm also a defiant display enthusiasm, pride of kind-kind reader, good humor and an incredibly distinctive fashion sense, because come on, those are big shoes.