Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Color Purple

Decisions, decisions. Sometimes in the design process, it's very easy. Usually when I design my shoes, I get a general idea of what my customer prefers. Then when the shoe is together, I play around with it, and more often than not I find "the one". I send my customer a picture to get their approval and I have only had one customer tell me they didn't like something in all this time.

For this pair of shoes though, I made a small mistake. In my enthusiasm to show my customer the design, I took and sent a less than stellar picture of the unfinished shoe.

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That was awful. I don't know what I was thinking, other than that I couldn't wait.

Not surprisingly, she was less than impressed and asked if we could try a lace flower. So I made some and sent her some pictures. But, I also took another, better couple pictures of the purple flower, just in case.

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Thankfully, she saw the purple potential and I got to make these sweet darlings.

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I'm completely enchanted with them. The fabric choice reminds me of Edwardian muslin.

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They're so sweetly feminine, but not too saccharine.

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They are on their way to New York today. And I am fairly confident they won't feel too meanly in that fashion conscious city.

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6 comments:

The Pink Giraffe said...

oh my, these are wonderful! I love the boldness of the purple against the fair colors polka dots. So cute!!

Megan, TfDiaries.com said...

adorable!

Kerri said...

Adorable - love them!

BonBon Rose Girls Kristin said...

The purple definitely stands out! Thanks so much for joining the Monday Mingle fun!

Bonnie and Trish @ Uncommon Designs said...

All of your designs are beautiful! Custom orders can be difficult sometimes, but you were right on the money in your second set of pics! I love them!

Take care,

Trisha

Simply Tasheena said...

These are so pretty.

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