Shoes: Nutcracker | Irregular Choice
I have my final festive footwear from the recent Irregular Choice collection to share tonight. On launch day, these immediately caught my eye because of the pretty, pastel colours and how different they were to the other more traditional red, gold and green pairs. I thought the same thing last year about Sweet Ginger Love, which were (very sadly) too low heeled for me. They of course, tell the story of The Nutcracker with the soldier on one shoe and sugar plum fairy on the other. I was a ballet dancer when I was younger and we put on The Nutcracker production one year, I must've been 11 or 12. I got to be a...rat, the King Rat, but still a rat. I was gutted, I wanted the big dresses and layers of net, but alas we had to stitch a tail onto grey leggings from Happit and rummage through a pile of charity shop 'treasures' our teacher bought (I ended up with an oversized mustard shirt and cropped sequin waistcoat). We had swords and had a whole dance situated around sword fighting. Not the glamour I hoped for! Anyway, it was my birthday at the time and my childhood school friend bought me a teddy bear with a red bow around it's neck and I named it Clara, after the main character in The Nutcracker. I still have Clara, for about 20 years, I couldn't sleep without her, she went everywhere with me, even just overnight stays.
