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The Egyptian goddess Isis was celebrated as the ideal wife and mother. The blogger known as Dr. Isis has some fancy-sounding degrees and is a physiologist at a major research university working on some terribly impressive stuff. She blogs about balancing her research career with the demands of raising small children, how to succeed as a woman in academia, and anything else she finds interesting. Also, she blogs about shoes. In fact, she blogs a lot about shoes.

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Dr. Isis's Shoe of the Week

Category: Weekly Shoe
Posted on: December 1, 2009 9:20 AM, by Isis the Scientist

Wow, we have been talking about a lot of science here recently. It's really distracted me from my one true blogging love -- shoes.

Lovely reader Lauren sent these to me yesterday. when I first saw them in black I was reasonably taken with them:

Figure 1: Lovely People Vera Pump. $138 at Piperlime.

I mean, a 4 inch heel and scalloped back with get me every time. I am pretty predictable that way. But then I saw them in all their bronze, sequined, fabulous glory:

Figure 2: I am now totally convinced that there is a God, that God lives in Heaven, and these shoes were made out of materials mined there. Amen

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I love your shoes Dr Isis but you know in heaven you don't need shoes. there you go and live for ever naked. Unless Saint Peter, the holder of the keys, changes the rules, I would strongly discourage you to think about heaven. Little Isis, listen to me, there is boring, Saint Peter separates boys from girls, boys from boys and so on. You're supposed to spend day and night in your cabin by yourself just thinking.

Posted by: eileen | December 1, 2009 11:04 AM

Okee Dokee Eileen.

I had presumed heaven involved the lovely Isis going around in just these shoes

Posted by: Morgan | December 1, 2009 11:59 AM

hmmm, I subscribe to the Chanel maxim, so the brown spectrum shoes are a little outre for me, although I am loving them in black.

With what would one wear the brown? I could perhaps see them peeking out of very well cut camel slacks paired with an extremely fierce cream cashmere turtleneck.

Posted by: feMOMhist | December 1, 2009 1:47 PM

I should have totally seen that one coming!

Posted by: Lauren | December 1, 2009 2:09 PM

Cheers to that!

Posted by: CFS | December 1, 2009 5:05 PM

I was actually thinking these would be lovely with some dark washed denim jeans and a cream colored sweater. I am still in love with these even hours later. Camel colored slacks could also be ferosh.

Posted by: Isis the Scientist | December 1, 2009 5:10 PM

Is the bronze red-enough to wear them with a dressy red dress with gold accents?

Gosh, they're lovely.

Posted by: Lauren Uroff | December 1, 2009 5:38 PM

Oh, yes Lauren!!!!

Posted by: Isis the Scientist | December 1, 2009 5:40 PM

I would SO rock that. I ain't scurred of 4 inch heel neither.

Posted by: DNLee | December 1, 2009 6:24 PM

In Heaven, I will be able to wear shoes with a 4" heel.

Posted by: Donna B. | December 3, 2009 1:09 AM