Feel A 5-Inch Heel (Eva/Detty)

[Eva Isaachar]

Eva and Detty had a lot in common, which included a love of pink and purple, a love of pretty, a love of girly, a love of frilly, a love of cute. Right now, they were on a mission to sate all these desires in the form of SHOES. Currently they were perusing the ones found in Famous Footwear, a shop found in the North Block of Midtown in Northern Miami. A pile of opened boxes, their tissue paper entrails spread about like a great nest of gauze, barricaded the pair in a haphazard sort of circle around the little bench where they sat to try them on. Originally they had put the ones they tried on back all nice and neat, but frenzy had set in and now they tossed the boxes aside in their eager greed to get to the next pair. You couldn't blame them, it was SHOES, and they'd pick them up afterward anyway! Really!

Poking around through the selection that had made the final cut, Eva made her recommendation for purchases.

"So, I'm thinking these for me," Eva held up one pair, and then another,

"And these for you. Or maybe a pair of each for both of us!"

However, they might need to test out a dozen more pairs each to be sure. This was very serious business!

"It's really too bad they don't make webbed styles. Like, can you imagine flying around with five-inch sparklies hanging off your flippers? Seriously, there's a market for animal-form accessories now, don't you think?"

Now there was a thought! Damn, she could get rich designing some!

[Odette Advaire]

Odette loved spending time with Eva. Oh, she was adorable (nearly as adorable as Detty herself!) and had such good taste and the most adorable little mouse ever!

Really, Eva was probably Odette's best friend, and her good taste in friends was being proven here, in the middle of the most lovely nest a bird might ask for, made of gauze and surrounded by shoes!

"Oh, those are lovely! We should each get a pair of both! Then we can match!"

She loved it when she matched with Eva, it just seemed to make them both even more wonderful!

At the mention of webbed styles, she pouted. "I know! It's such a shame they don't make pretties like that... I mean, it'd be lovely to have something to wear while I'm paddling about! And you've seen my neck! Imagine the necklaces!"

Oh, just the very idea of it... Although she could nearly hear Sig's voice in her head "As if you don't spend enough on clothes already Detty..."

But how could a girl be expected to help herself?

"Oh! Oh, you know where we should go next? That little boutique a couple of streets over! I mean, new shoes deserve a new outfit, right?"

[Eva Isaachar]

"Oh my gosh, yes, yes! You could have one loooong one wrapped around a bunch of times, or like a billion chokers one after the other--ooh, ooh, you know stackable rings and stackable bangles? Stackable necklaces! Let's see, let's see, what else has long necks--um, um, giraffes, um, horses sort of--camels! Camels have long necks! Hmm, not as pretty as swans...we should put swans on the adverts, definitely. I dunno, is that racist? Speciest? I just think people will buy things more if they have swans on them, regardless of if they're swans or not."

Talking a mile a minute, as was typical of her. Eva could speak at the speed of light, and change subjects just as quickly. Shoes, however, were guaranteed to keep her attention.

"Hmm, but I can only afford one pair...I think I'll go with these, so we can do matchikens!", she shook the pair that she had recommended for Odette, and then began to rifle through the shelves in search of a pair in her size. Obviously, she thought that her friend's idea was quite an adorable one.

"Oooh, the one with all the vintage stuff? Only it's not vintage, they just make it in vintage styles? So you can get it in colors and sizes and stuff that you couldn't with the real deal?"

Plus, one of the biggest problems with vintage items was that, however cute, it was often fragile and required special care, handwashing, etc. You didn't need to worry about that with the recreations--just toss 'em in the machines with everything else!

Looking thoughtfully at the pair in her hand, she asked,

"Hmmm...what decade would you say looks best with these?"

[Odette Advaire]

"Oh that would be lovely! A range of styles for every occasion!" She wrinkled her nose and then giggled. "Awww, Eva! Always so caring! But I don't think it's speciest! See, you just have to make a a special line for each species! Like... one for little birds, and one for birds of prey and one for the different types of swan... And horses and camels and lizards! Oh, you could do itty-bitty-teeny-tiny ones for insects!"

She beamed. Oh, she was in love with the idea already!

And back to the wonderful magic of shoes!

"Oh, Eva, if you want a pair of each, I can totally buy you the other pair! It'd be a present! I mean, I love being matchikins with you because we both look so perfect, but you'd look so amazingly adorable in the other pair too!"

Abruptly, she switched gears from 'shoes' to 'outfits'.

"Oh, yes! We can totally find something wonderful there! And fifties for sure! They'd look lovely and so flattering with your figure!"

She did so adore shopping with Eva. Her figure was so much fun to dress up, and so fun to make clothes for!

"Oh! And I can totally make Magdalena a little matching rose bow so the three of us will match!"

[Eva Isaachar]

"Aaaaah! Thank you!" Eva launched herself forward and flung her arms around Detty's neck, still managing to keep the shoes in her hand. Yeah, Detty had done this before, but that didn't mean that Eva would ever fail to be properly grateful. Like, come on, it was SHOES, how could the thrill of getting them for free EVER wear off?!

"Fifties? Really?" Eva looked surprised, but flattered, looking down at her body in surprise like she hadn't seen it before. The fifties had been all about luscious Marilyn curves and the hourglass silhouette...Eva's form, along with her haircut, was much more suited for a flapper--which she didn't mind in itself because flappers were awesome but oh how it made her wince every time the phrase 'boyish figure' was used in connection with the 20s craze because, well...you know.

"Well, I know *you'd* look good in pearls and poodle skirt, that's for sure! Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, instead of poodle decals, we could get a swan one for you a mouse one for me and--EEE DID YOU JUST SAY ROSE BOW FOR MAGDALENA OMYGOSH YES THAT IS THE CUTEST THING EVER!"

The exclamation turned a few heads, but hey, turning heads was normal for this pair for LOTS of reasons, baby. Which they certainly did when they were back out on the sidewalk on their way to that boutique after having paid for their fabulous pair of matching foot candy.

[Odette Advaire]

Odette giggled delightedly, happily twirling Eva about a bit.

"Oh of course Eva! I'm always happy to help my bestest bestie!"

Giving her a beaming smile, Odette chirped her reply. "Of course! The wide flared skirts and defined waist will make your hips look curvier and the structured tops will accentuate your chest." If there was one thing Odette knew nearly as well as her ballet, it was fashion.

With another giggle she wiggled her hips and then actually jumped up and down. "Oh that would look so perfect! We could be the most adorable matchikins ever! Especially with the classic outfits and modern shoes and yes I did! Why wouldn't I? I mean, making sure she's matchikins with us is one of my most important duties as your bestie!"

Out of the store, she skipped and pranced as she went, unable to help herself, and offering her free hand to Eva, her mind already plotting what to get. White shirts. A pink skirt for herself and a blue one for Eva. Cute little jackets of course... Oh, and a rose bow for Magdalena of course... Pearls, tied with bows, in pink and blue...

[Eva Isaachar]

"Oh my gosh, you are so right!" Eva clapped her hands together as Detty explained,

"I was just thinking in terms of what ideal my body already matches, not, like, how it could be played up to look like the ideal using that fashion--er I'm garbling that all up what did I even just say BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN YOU'RE BRILLIANT!"

She clasped Odette's hand in hers as they traipsed down the sidewalk, proclaiming with a fist-pump from her opposite hand,

"Yes! Let's be perfect 50s froo-froo queens together! We'll sit on the couch with our pearls and cocktails and make the men vacuum!"

As soon as they stepped in to the shop, she grabbed a very tall 60s-style wig and plopped it on to Odette's head.

"Gooood mooorning Baaaaltimooore!", she trilled in reference to the musical Hairspray, seeing as how it was set in the 1960s and, well...big hair.

"Can I help you ladies?", asked the young woman behind the counter, looking somewhat taken aback by the display.

"Yes!", Eva bounded over her with a big wave,

"We want to be fancy froo froo fifties queens, if you please!"

"Well, uh, fifties section is over there...", said the lady, pointing.