I want SHOES!!!!

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world!

Marilyn Monroe

My delicate disposition today is testament that we’re in the middle of the Christmas Party season – Hurrah!!! Key to a successful Christmas Party is the right dress and of course the right shoes, but what does your dress say about you an individual.

We all try to live up to the old adage, “dress to impress”, psychologists however, when we’re in a situation where we want to impress, we often choose clothes to “deceive” potential partners.

Firstly, let's consider the idea of why and how we seek to “impress” potential partners. A study by Joseph Benz at the University of Nebraska surveyed more than 90 men and women with regards to the way in which they deceive potential partners whilst on dates. The researchers found that both genders tend to use deception when dating but for different purposes.

Males were found to try to impress their dates by emphasizing the security that they could offer the partner - for example, by exaggerating their financial position or by trying to demonstrate a preparedness to commit. Women, however, were deceptive with regards to their body image, exaggerating physical features in an effort to appear more attractive to their date (Benz et al, 2005).

In both cases, clothing may play a part in this dating ritual of deception.

Another factor in our clothing choices is the way in which males and females perceive and interpret different colours.

In one experiment, researchers photographed people in different coloured clothes and then asked participants to rate the attractiveness of people in the resulting photos. They found that the colour of clothing affects the way in which men rate both males' and females' attractiveness, and how women rate men's attractiveness. Interestingly however, clothing colour did not influence women's judgement of other females (Roberts et al, 2000).

This brings us to the question: which colours are viewed as attractive?

Roberts and his fellow researchers found that red clothes would tend to lead participants to rate subjects more favourably in terms of attractiveness compared to when they wore clothes of other colours.

This result might explain the findings of a study which found that, when waitresses wore different coloured t-shirts whilst serving in a restaurant, men would tend to leave higher tips for those wearing red tops than those with t-shirts of other colours. However, shirt colour had no effect on the tips left by female customers (Guéguen and Jacob, 2010).

Interesting, however I wonder what Benz, Roberts and Guéguen would think about my shoes. Time to introduce you to the best she shops in the world, bar none, welcome to Irregular Choice!

I don’t go down to Carnaby Street very often however, if I’m looking for a pair of shoes that allow people see the slightly crazy, slightly eccentric Lisa I make a bee line for Irregular Choice!

Every year without fail we are treated to a selection of amazing Christmas shoes from said retailer and this year is no exception. Earlier in the month IR launched the start of their festive range with a few fan favourites and the return of the Christmas baubles.

The she I absolutely fell in love with as soon as I saw them was a completely outrageous snow globe heel with a top with so much going on they need their own map! The concept of these is very traditional. Simply presents underneath a Christmas Tree. The design works its way up the side of the upper in spectacular fashion, with the bottom area around the toes being a selection of wrapped gifts and the top being a full decorated tree with baubles and lights, yes, we are still talking about shoes!

The detail is amazing as one would expect from IR, the tinsel, baubles and small gifts all hang off the tree rather than being very flat and sewn into the design.

Now a Christmas tree wouldn’t be a Christmas tree if it didn’t light up right? Well suppress the disappointment because at the touch of a button they become resplendent with flickering fairy lights – magical

Like the sound of them or simply intrigued? Well, here they are;