All Lacquered Up - A Nail Polish Fanatic's Resource

I mentioned a few weeks back that I saw horrible nail faux pas at a friend's wedding. Well, here it is folks. I took pictures of some other crimes of pedicure but a drunk Michelle should not be left alone with a digicam. Talk about blur city. This one is bad enough, I really don't need to inundate you with multiple foot pics.Shall we count the issues here? 1. Toes and Hose. 2. Runner in said hose. 3. Unkempt scraggly nails that can be seen through the hose.

Not long after meeting one of my bestest buds, Jewels, she gave me a one of my favorite fashion mantras, "Toes... no hose, Hose... no toes." Seems simple, right? Then why oh why do I still see women wearing pantyhose with open toed shoes?

I know it's colder and you still want to wear those fab peep toes or strappy sandals to weddings, formal events, work, etc. and in the past that left you with two options:
1. Paint your toes, smooth your soles and freeze with bare (well moisturized) legs.
2. Wear closed-toed shoes and be warm in your hose/tights.

I'm here to bring you an option that combines the best of both worlds - Open Toe Pantyhose. That's right, the manufacturers have listened. You can now hide your pale winter legs behind pantyhose and still wear your fun flirty shoes. I've found them online at Yandy.com and Nordstrom.
Ladies, ladies (this includes you my drag queen/transgender friends) why haven't you learned? Please for the love of all that is polish, pull your friends, neighbors, strangers on the street aside and tell them what they're doing. Let's stop this madness now.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: I went to a black tie optional fundraiser this weekend and saw the same thing. Insanity. I think those shoes are Mossimo slides from Target (and 3 summers ago). I just got rid of mine. Of course, I would never have worn them with hose or to a wedding for that matter. I wore mine to run around with capris and t-shirts.; November 5, 2007 4:01 PM
Rebecca said...: Hanes also makes toeless hose, you can get them year round on their website store, or in regular stores usually just in the summer months. They even make them as knee highs.; November 5, 2007 5:50 PM
Liz said...: I've tried the toeless things, and they look really weird on me; I'm very aware that they mean that my toes are a very slightly different colour from my shins in them. Peep-toe shoes for me are for summer, or for warm rooms when I have had plenty of time to apply stocking cream or a good fake tan.; November 6, 2007 4:50 AM
Anonymous said...: My favorite - at a fancy law firm party last year I saw a very successful, high earning woman wearing open toed shoes with black pantyhose - the ones with reinforced toes. No, no, no. How can someone be so smart in one way and at the very least not see the error in reinforced toe pantyhose on display? Damn.; November 6, 2007 3:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Maybe the lawyers are smart enough to realise that in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter ;).

If I'm free to run around with five colours on my toes, or lurid green, or whatever mad colours someone, somewhere probably decided is a tragic faux pas, then these people are free to wear open toes with closed hose.

...I've been known to wear socks with mine ;) *flees fashion police*; November 7, 2007 10:12 PM
Julia said...: American Apparel sells 'stirrup tights'--there are holes in the tights for the toes and the heels. It's a funky look that I actually quite like.; November 11, 2007 7:24 PM
yummy411 said...: wow! what a find!!!; January 2, 2008 11:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Ladies, what is wrong with you all? Haven't you have better things to do other than complain about something so irrelevant such as this hose with open toed shoe thing? These so-called fashion experts have apparently brainwashed each and every one of you. In fact, most of we men find absolutely nothing wrong with women who wear hose with open toed shoes. We think it's a rather sexy sight and not an eye sore. If you ask me, it's a major turn on for me. To me, the real eye sore is bare legs and feet with open toed shoes in the cold weather. That does not turn me on one bit. If you wanna do that then save it for summer. If you ask most guys, they'll say that women wearing hose with open toed shoes is definitely not a crime. I'm sure most of your husbands or significant others would agree. Don't listen to the fashion police. It's a free country, so live free.; March 1, 2008 12:41 AM