When a sister approaches another birthday a gift is in order. But if your sister is a stylish, sexy, long-legged blondie like mine, who travels with the same ease via the underground in Madrid or the 101 Highway in LA, then that gift needs to be just a little bit more special.

Haute-couture special.

Like Carrie in the "A Woman's Right to Shoes" episode, Jody had her Manolo Moment (or rather her "Hermes Hour", in this case).  I sent her the right-off-the-runway Jean-Paul Gaultier collection's most impossibly perfect Pelle Melle's, as well as some melt in your mouth muskateer over the knee platform boots in carmel calf leather.

Yes. People actually stopped her in the street. Envious of her eye-candy footwear, friends have made it known that if she drops off to sleep one evening and wakes up footwearless, they had nothing to do with it.... but will be in Vegas strutting their stuff.

Carrie had it right: "Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes.  That's why we need special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun".