ShoeStories™ Two

Each painstakingly detailed shoe in the ShoeStories(tm) series is accompanied by an original story, loaded with witty puns and clever innuendo, narrated by a hard-boiled skirt chaser right out of a 1940's detective novel. Exaggerated proportions make each heel impossibly high and impossibly sexy. Right away, you're in the mood to surrender to every tongue-in-cheek double meaning in the otherwise innocent words. WHY A SHOE? The graphic shape of a shoe, particularly without the constraint of functionality, lends itself perfectly to unusual architecture and applied embellishment--whatever is necessary to express a character, a situation, or an entire story. Proportions are exaggerated, heightening the sexual connotation that has always surrounded women's shoes. WHY A TYPEWRITER? In traditional illustration, a picture illuminates, explains or expands on the text. Here, the situation is reversed: the text illustrates the pictures, so it had to be an integral part of the work. The vintage pulp fiction that inspires ShoeStories(tm) featured quick, witty repartee with lots of "You-get-it-you-get-it-You-don't-you-don't" innuendo, and would have been written on a beat-up old typewriter. As luck would have it, the author happened to have one of those in her basement.