I only wear red shoes, have for over 6 years now. There have been some lean years when red shoes weren’t in great demand so I resorted to having at least some kind of red depicted on the shoe. Maroon and orangie red count. But not pink. Fortunately we are not in such desperate shopping times currently. To try to understand why red much less shoes you could google it for more information than you want to know.
Red is the color of energy, vitality and power. People wear red shoes for a richer more exciting life. Feng Shui proponents say it carries divine energy and can be both destructive and creative. It is considered a passionate, rich celebratory color. At Chinese New Year celebrations people wear red clothes, decorate with poems on red paper, and give children "lucky money" in red envelopes. Red symbolizes fire, which according to legend can drive away bad luck. Red is the color for cupid and sometimes Devilish behavior. Red denotes power, hence the red power tie for business people and the red carpet for celebrities and VIPs . Flashing red lights denote danger or emergency. Stop signs and stop lights are red to get the drivers' attention and alert them to the dangers of the intersection. In other cultures (like India and Korea), red denotes purity, joy, and celebration. You can use the color red to grab attention and to get people to take action. Use red when you don't want to fade into the background. You can use red to suggest speed combined with confidence and even a dash of danger. I never realized what a paradox the color of red is but then so is my life.
The negative things about red is more than balanced out with the positive making things interesting. I have learned a little bit of red goes a long way. I like to match my clothes to my shoes (or is it vice versa?). I can tell when I am completely dressed in red that it is too strong, over powering for some people. I read once that red is the new black and it goes with everything!
Then there are the red shoe stories: the Wizard of Oz and Hans Christian Anderson Red Shoes fable. Each with different story themes. Being from Kansas, its no surprise I prefer the Oz version of red shoes. The Wizard of Oz is full of allegories. The shoes represent the "inner spark" within all of us. When the good witch Glinda instructs Dorothy never to take off the ruby slippers, she is telling Dorothy never to lose her inner spark. In this New Age interpretation, it suggests that the ruby slippers represent a person's principles. "Keeping tight inside your shoes" means never losing sight of those principles. The ruby slippers can transport you to home (or anywhere for that matter). I don’t collect Oz things or anything else; guess you could say I collect red shoes (reread paragraph one about the lean years). I eventually get around to wearing all of them. And besides, just for the record, I have more books on the shelf that I have read then shoes in my closet (s).
So why do I only wear red shoes? Partly for all of the above but mostly because of my hair. I decided to quit coloring my hair to hide the grey so it is a'la natural (there comes a point ladies that you have to choose between a life time of perming or coloring , I chose the former). Graying hair can be sombering. The red shoes distract me from that and other bouts of depression that crop up. Red lifts my spirits. That’s really why I wear red shoes.