“Well, the rails are washed out north of town. We gotta head for higher ground. We can’t come back till the water comes down, Five feet high and risin’” –Johnny Cash
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Platform pumps and boots are looking better than ever after a handful of inches of rain slosh the streets and flood the gutters. If you do not yet have a prince to cast his cloak over a puddle so that you can glide across, consider alternatives to keep your stride high and dry like these Prada boots.
If platforms make you dizzy, consider the glorified galoshes, made of recycled plastic by the Brazillian company, Melissa. You may or may not know that Beach Barbies these days smell suntan-lotion-ish…the scent embedded in the plastic. These grown up Jellies are also scent-infused using what must be similar plasti-magic. If they’re good enough for Patricia Field….
Or follow the advice of legendary fashion editor, Diana Vreeland (Bazaar, Vogue) and “have two pairs of shoes exactly alike, except that one pair has thin rubber soles for damp days…any cobbler can put these on.” Having your shoe repair man cover your leather soles with Vibram soles is a trick men have used to get longer wear out of top-notch dress shoes for ages. Now that an extra eighth of an inch could reasonably be considered a micro-platform you have not reason not to go see Rubio, the only man in town we’d trust with our favorite shoes. Rubio’s Shoe Repair is at 115 SW Ash St.
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