The Artsy Shelf – 3 – A pair of shoes and a white dress
After my last feature on “Barefoot book covers“, it seemed only natural to do one on shoes.
But crap, that’s a LOT of book covers!!!!
I could make many, many features focussing on shoes with feet in it, shoes without feet, fur boots, rain boots, sexy shoes, ugly shoes, etc. Mostfly women shoes, too – are you surprise? If I look at those covers, it seems a lot of people in the book industry believe in The Shoe as a book seller.
What do you think : can shoes sell a book to you, more than a pair of gloves or a pearl necklace?
While looking for the covers I would choose for the feature, I noticed that many of them had a girl or woman wearing a white dress, with a nice, sexy pair of shoes. 3 of those are young adult fiction, and I’m sure you can guess which ones!
I think my favorite is Confessions of a First Daughter ; I can’t resist red shoes!
Although, if we wanna talk about red-shoes-covers, I have to mention that the recently published Prada and Prejudice has an awesome red-shoes-cover too! When I first saw it, I thought, “I don’t care what it’s about! I wanna read it!”
I love the Prada and Prejudice cover. It cracks me up every time I see it. I like th slipper in the Vision in White cover.
OOh, fun feature! Thank you for including Prada & Prejudice! Interestesting fact: The shoes in Prada & Prejudice were originally purple pumps. Once they did the cover, I had to change it to red. But I have grown to love them as shiny red heels!
I <3 the confessions of a first daughter cover. Also– did you notice the YA covers have an awkward, shy pose, and the adult ones don't? interestin constrast.
Hi Mandy! I could not not include “Prada and Prejudice”! It’s one of my favorite covers right now, and the story sounds good too! I’m thinking of getting it this week if I go downtown! And I think those shoes look just perfect in red (I have a long love history with red shoes!)
I noticed the same thing, the YA poses all have the feet turned in this awkward way, something I haven’t seen much in adult fiction. It’s cute, though! 🙂
I love these posts! The first cover you feature has a lookalike.
Nicole : I do too! I usually don’t fall for the too “romantic” cover, but I think Vision in White’s one is beautifully done, just enough fluff but not too much. And you’re right, the slipper is really nice!
avisannschild : good, cause I like them too! 😀 And I love to see lookalikes, thank you for your link! It’s always interesting to see how one picture is used in different ways!
I love the Prada & Prejudice cover! Have you read it yet? What did ya think?
No I haven’t yet!
But I’m supposed to go downtown at the end of the week, and I want to get it with maybe another book. The cover just screams to me “Read Me!!!!”
I have a policy of never buying books with shoes on the cover. those are cute though 🙂
Ooh that’s funny! If you pass by again, may I ask, why? 🙂
I really feel like going shoe shopping now.
Who knew about the YA shoe fetish? Great post. In children’s books lately socks have been big on the covers.