IN HER SHIRI APPLEBY’S SHOES: SOPHOMORE SPLURGE PHOTOGRAPHY KYMBERLY MARCIANO WORDS BY SHIRI APPLEBY
ACTRESS SHIRI APPLEBY (GIRLS, LIFE UNEXPECTED) FINDS MOTHERHOOD
THE PERFECT EXCUSE TO REMINISCE ABOUT HER FIRST LOVE: A PAIR OF BOOTS. Recently, I became a mom to a wonderful little girl, Natalie. So many things have been fun; taking her to the park, watching her learn to crawl, buying her clothes. I love putting her in fauxfur coats, Ralph Lauren dresses and white Converse high tops, but I recently stopped to think: if she was old enough to choose, what would she choose for herself? Which made me think about my own life, when I was old enough to choose…which got me thinking about my favorite high school boots. To say my boots and I were close would be an understatement. The fact that I had to take them off to get a good night’s rest was the only reason we ever separated. If it had been legal in the state of California to marry boots, without question I would have proposed. I first laid eyes on them at Nordstrom. It was my sophomore year, I had just made the JV cheerleading squad (making a celebratory trip to the Topanga Plaza mall a necessity), and there they were as I came up the store’s elevator. They were on the top stand of the display table closest to the store’s window. They appeared like a vision, a shining light calling me, saying they’d be the soy sauce to my egg roll, the wax to my surfboard, the Jordan Catalano to my Angela Chase. I eyed them carefully – black leather, chunky heel, a little HOLLYWOOD issue - BELLOmag.com