Jelly shoes have been a fashion trend since last year, and the silver colored ones that kind of look like Cinderella’s glass slippers have caught my eye a lot.
Cinderella is my favorite fairy tale and I have always been fascinated by her glass slippers. When I was a child I used to slip my tiny feet into my mom’s sandals with clear straps and prance around the bedroom pretending I was Cinderella wearing glass slippers. When I grew older, I discovered the movie Ever After, which is the story of Cinderella without the magic, and it became one of my all time favorite movies.
One fine Saturday while I was out with my friends Maya and Gay, I found out that they also like these same jelly shoes and we spent a few hours searching for cheap ones on Orchard Road. No such luck. The only ones we found were in a Melissa store, but those are over S$100 and I have a strict no-buying-shoes-worth-more-than-S$50 policy.
A few days after that incident, I was browsing through an online store (I think I found myself in there by clicking through a Facebook ad) when I saw cheap versions of the shoes we were searching for. So I informed my friends and we all ordered a pair. And here they are, Cinderella’s slippers for S$17. ๐
I love them because they’re pretty and comfy too. I could dance all night in them. Now if only I can find a ball to attend, with a prince to boot. ๐
UPDATE: To those who want to know where I bought them, they’re on this site.
Bonus: read the short story I wrote about Cinderella’s Revenge.