Category Archives: Friday Footwear

By Robert J. Avrech | June 20, 2014

Friday Footwear — Stiletto Statistics

Tweet Sigmund Freud famously asked: “What do women want?” A new survey by ShoeBuy.com confirms what Seraphic Secret knows: Women want shoes. Women dream of nose-bleed stilettos, ballet flats, boots, Oxfords, sandals — whatever! If it clothes the foot, women lust for it. Okay, a few statistics.

Also posted in Brigitte Bardot, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Jean Harlow | Tagged AnneFrancis, Chester Morris, Eyal Nifrah, Forbidden Planet, Gilad Shaar, Ginger Rogers, Naftali Frenkel, Red Headed Woman, Robby the Robot, Roxie hart | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 10, 2014

Friday Footwear

Tweet ObamaCare is creating financial and healthcare instability for millions of Americans. Foreign governments have come to understand that Obama has no interest in asserting America’s dominant role in world affairs. Thus, our allies despair, even as IslamoNazis ruthlessly fill the void created by Obama’s policies of appeasement. In reaction to the prevailing political gloom, […]

Also posted in Fashion, Obamacare | Tagged Anne Francis, Charlotte Olympia, Chiara Ferragni, Forbidden Planet, Jimmy Choo, Nicholas Kirkwood, Robby the Robot, Sophia Webster, Stubbs and Wootton, Thea Cadabra | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 15, 2013

Friday Footwear: The Best of Times, The ObamaCare of Times

Tweet Hollywood’s greatest era, the 1930′s, gave birth to two luminous and entertaining genres: the screwball comedy, and the lush musical. It is no coincidence that these escapist movies, filled with glamorous women swimming in fur and jewels, and painfully handsome men in perfectly tailored tuxedos, were produced during the depths of the Depression. You […]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Tagged Alejandro Ingelmo, Charlotte Olympia, Chiarra Ferragni, Dolce & Gabbana, Liam Fahy, Op Art, Rene Caovilla, Sandra Dee, Sophia Webster | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 6, 2013

The Art of High Heels

Tweet Freud famously asked: “What do women want?” Poor Sigmund, obsessively seeking an answer in the murky depths of the subconscious. Really, all he had to do was look around, and down, to realize that women want… shoes. Designer Boyarde Messenger’s hand painted collection of Charlotte Olympia pumps for Neiman Marcus is for women who […]

Also posted in Art, Friday Fashion | Tagged Boyarde Messenger, Charlotte Olympia, Freud, Hodgkin, Lichtenstein, Mondrian, Picasso, Van Gogh, What do women want? | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 25, 2013

Friday Footwear: Killer Heels

Tweet Dear Seraphic Secret: It’s true, we are depressed that Obama won the election. We are also angry that the Second Amendment is under attack by the commies who now run the U. S. government. But we still love shoes. So what gives, Robert? Is Karen walking around in flip-flops? Come on. Get over it. […]

Also posted in Second Amendment | Tagged Brian Atwood, Chanel Handgun Heel, Fendi, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Nicholas Kirkwood, Roger Vivier, Valentino | 20 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 4, 2013

Friday Photos: Random

Tweet Totally random selection of photos today. Enjoy!

Also posted in Friday Fotos, How I Married Karen | Tagged Footwear, James Nares, Jewish Tartan, Ma'ayan Ariel, Michael Kors Ionna Pump, Phantom of the Opera | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 5, 2012

Friday Footwear: Lielle Meital Kicks Up Her Heels

Tweet Here are some more pink shoes Lielle has her eyes on.

Also posted in Friday Fashion, Friday Fotos | Tagged Brian Atwood, Chanel, Crocs, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, Lielle Meital, Louboutin, Pink shoes, Shabbat | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 14, 2012

Friday Fashion: Mayan Ariel Super Styling for Rosh Hashanah

Tweet Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins Sunday evening. It is traditional to greet the New Year with some new outfits. Maayan’s adorable dress reflects a discernible trend towards a return to patterns.

Also posted in Family, Friday Fashion, Maayan Ariel, Rosh Hashanah | Tagged leopard print shoes, Mary Katrantzou, Old Navy, Prints, Toms | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 7, 2012

Friday Footwear: Lielle Meital’s Little Cat Feet

Also posted in Family, Friday Fashion | Tagged Carl Sandburg, Lielle Meital, Little Cat Feet | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 17, 2012

Friday Photos: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Tweet Summer vacation. Seraphic Secret spent time in Yosemite and not long afterwards, Offspring #2 and family arrived in Los Angeles for a two-week vacation. Activities included a wedding at the Terranea Resort, day trips to museums, playgrounds, and swimming in Casa Avrech’s cement pond. Vacation time is almost over, but our memories will last […]

Also posted in Family, Friday Fotos | Tagged Jewish Wedding, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, shoes, Terranea Resort, Vacation, Yosemite | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 3, 2012

Friday Footwear: Cool Tootsies

Tweet Millions of Americans are out of work. The federal deficit is a crime. We are on the edge of a double dip recession. What to do? Fashion designers are banking on happy, unexpected colors to dress up your tootsies. Seraphic Secret has done the hard work of combing through the 2013 footwear collections and […]

Also posted in Friday Fashion | Tagged Charlotte Olympia, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Gloria Swanson, Jason Wu, kenzo, Louis Vuitton, Nicholas Kirkwood | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 8, 2012

Friday Fashion: The Female Animal

Tweet For as long as fashion has existed, animal metaphors have been an indispensible part of the designers language. Hollywood, during its golden age, a leading arbiter of taste, heightened and refined the animal metaphor with brilliant costume designers turning ravishing movie stars into expressions of animal desire.

Also posted in Friday Fashion, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Myrna Loy, Silent Movies, Travis Banton | Tagged Adrian, Carole Lombard, Cleopatra, Evelyn Brent, Greta Garbo, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Josef von Sternberg, Letty Lynton, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Kalloch, Shanghai Express, The Torrent, Theda Bara, Twentieth Century, Underworld | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 6, 2012

Friday Fashion: The Exodus Edition

Tweet On Passover the Jewish people are instructed to envision that they are experiencing the Exodus from Egypt. During the Passover seder (meal) we reenact—through sacred memory animated by ritual—the passage from bondage to slavery. The Torah tells us that the Jews left Egypt with the spoils of their oppressors—compensation for 400 years of cruelty. […]

Also posted in Friday Fashion, Holidays, Passover | Tagged Barbara Briones, Charlotte Olympia, Exodus, Fendi, Gio Dev, Glamour, Gucci, Jerusalem, Ma'ayan Ariel, Manolo Blahnik, Passover Fashion, Seder, Shabbat, Stella McCartney, Tory Burch | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 10, 2012

Friday Footwear: Hollywood Steps Out

Tweet Classic photos of Hollywood stars usually reinforce a particular image. Lighting, composition, body language, wardrobe and the singular architecture of the face are the ingredients that create a glamorous narrative for audiences to internalize. Clark Gable is the man’s man who doesn’t give a damn; Carole Lombard, the girl next door who will drive […]

Also posted in Brigitte Bardot, Clark Gable, Friday Fashion, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood | Tagged Brigitte Bardot, Carole Lombard, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd, Pablo Picasso, Pola Negri | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 16, 2011

Friday Footwear: Happy

Tweet The American economy is not happy. The European Union is even less happy. And the Asian markets are, you guessed it, totally unhappy. But shoe designers want you, more specifically your tootsies, to be happy in super cute, super colorful, super sculptural footwear. Let’s take a look at some examples of potential female happiness, Seraphic […]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Tagged Brian Atwood, Brooks Brothers, Carole Lombard, Charlotte Olympia, Detroit Mucle Car, Dior, Mondrian, Prada, Tory Burch, Viktor & Rolf | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 2, 2011

Friday Footwear: Hollywood Parade

Tweet Glamour depends on mystery, the art of concealment. Hollywood stars of the past and their handlers understood that to maintain the image projected on the screen was a full-time job. Hard working stars like Joan Crawford never appeared in public less than impeccably turned out. Even at their most casual, Hollywood stars of the […]

Also posted in Hollywood, Movies | Tagged Brooks Brothers, Gail Patrick, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Glamour, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Bern, Paulette Goddard, Rodeo Drive, Sabbath, Shabbat | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 16, 2011

Friday Footwear: Into Thin Air

Tweet Several days ago Seraphic Secret received this email from a loyal but unhappy reader: Dear Robert: It’s been ages since you posted a Friday Footwear blog. I get it. You like to write about Israel. Awesome. I’m a Christian Zionist who loves the Jewish people. You like to cut Obama down to size. Double […]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Tagged Chester Morris, Fashion, Jean Harlow, Karen, Loehmann's, Target | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 29, 2011

Friday Footwear

Tweet “I wonder what shoes she’ll be wearing,” Karen says. Karen and I are on our way to a late afternoon barbecue given by friends here in LA, a couple we have known since we moved to California over 20 years ago. Like us, they are from New York, orthodox Jews from humble circumstances who […]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Tagged Anne Francis, Family, Fashion, Forbidden Planet, Friends, High Heels, Karen, Los Angeles, Migraine, Robby the Robot | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 15, 2011

In Search of Hollywood’s Sole

Tweet Hollywood glamour is most often, and correctly, associated with picture perfect faces, figures, magical charisma, and the stunning costumes worn by stars of the silver screen during Hollywood’s Golden Age. But then, as now, footwear was a vital component of the machinery of glamour.

Also posted in Hollywood | Tagged Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Classic Hollywood, Glamour, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Pickford, Paulette Goddard, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tony Curtis | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 29, 2011

Shoe-La-La!

Tweet Loyal readers will recall that Offspring #2, in honor of Passover, cleverly arranged a shipment of new shoes delivered c/o Zappos to the front door of Casa Avrech. Well, another surprise arrived c/o you know who. A surprise just for Ma’ayan Ariel. As you can see, Ma’ayan is a BIG fan of Friday Footwear. […]

Posted in Friday Footwear | 6 Responses

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: "Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

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Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

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Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
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