Tango Shoe Divas

I am designing my “dream team”. Much like the male version of this pastime I have to draw from existing players, but I can make my own combination that is much better than anything in existence. I now own 7 (?!?!) pair of CiF and while I love them, the recent festival reminded me that I need to get back to my platform roots. After 45+ hours of tango I was down to two pair of shoes that I could stand to put on my feet, my bestest go-to pair that are beginning to be a bit worn but are as comfortable as 3.5 inch heels can be, and my platform Tara “Alma” Pair but Tara doesn’t have anything that I really need (need of course being a subjective term when you own 20 pair of tango shoes…) I am a bit in love with these, and I don’t have a plain pair of cherry red shoes… I was hoping that she would be at the festival, once they were on my feet I might have not let them go, plus I wanted to try the memory foam thing out in person…

It still could happen, but in the meantime… I have been on the hunt for green… A desperate quest in fact. Before tango, green was my favorite color and I never red. And we all know what happens when we start tango. Very quickly a normal, colorful closet becomes frighteningly bichromatic, black and red, practically a uniform for the nascent tango dancer. My tango shoe collection, which really started to grow in my sixth year of tango when I was SO over red, has no such problem – the most represented color (not lack of color – which would be black) is red, but it is closely followed by blue, purple and pink. I admit, I do have one pair of green shoes but I don’t love, either in color, or fit and balance. And I occasionally see a pair of CiF that are ok but nothing that makes me want to throw down $190.

So it is time to try something different. So lets play Fantasy Footwear. Courtesy of Tango Wear

First the model:
This part is easy. I’ve had my eye on this style for a long time (pretty much since the model came out). I have one friend who ordered them and went back for a second color. What seals the deal is that they will put a platform on them. Comfort plus the look of a stiletto would make this tanguera absolutely ecstatic.

Now for the hard part, finding the perfect color combination!

For the suede, the first picture is the ideal (CiF of course – I am tempted to buy that pair, as they are gorgeous, but I really, really need less 4″ heels!) and the second is a color from a pair of Tango Wear shoes. I have emailed the first picture to them to see if they have something closer to the CiF color (they are very nice to communicate with).

If they have a different suede, then I think I want to go with the more classic green metallic in the first picture. But their suede combined with the second metallic could be more unique… I also have an inquiry in about whether I can get a metallic stiletto to match. Yum!

So that is today’s episode of “Fantasy Footwear” (and I think I need a new category for this game!). Anyone want to vote? Hmmmm. I might have to work on poll functionality!