Red shoes are even better than red toenails. While a little red polish can pretty up your feet, red shoes perk up you soul - make you wanna dance, put a bounce in your step, feel sexy.
Those would be some of the reasons we’re we’re seing so many red shoes this summer. They’re also a perfect pick-me-up for a difficult year, a purchase that can be justified because the color can be worn with almost everything. That makes them economically viable and fun.
But this doesn’t begin to explain the red shoe mystique. From the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz” to “The Red Shoes with Moira Shearer and ”The Man With One Red Shoe”, red shoes have been casting their spell for decades.
Ask a woman about her first pair of red shoes & she can describe them. It’s no secret that accessories from lipstick to shoes sell better when times are bad. Shoes are not as blatant as a red strapless dress, for example. They’re more versatile and subtle - little exclamation points for a costume.