island formal?!?

so it's one thing to know that south florida is full of all the rich jews from new york/new jersey and it's a whole different thing to really know. i just spent a few days in boca raton and west palm beach and now i know.

my mom sits on a for-profit board of directors for a company that i won't name, and their annual board retreat was in boca. being the giant leech that i am, i went, of course. now my mom is the only woman, as well as being the only person of color (unless you can count overly tanned as being a color), so the planned spouse activities were really geared towards wives of big board types. the qintessential ladies who lunch.

we went shopping on worth avenue as an excursion, and of the group, i was the only one who had a job. any job at all. then we went to lunch and all ordered salads. and then went to neiman's and sak's to help the chairman's wife shop for a dress that met the qualifications of "island formal" for a wedding in jamaica. and oh the parade of dresses. carolina herrera, marc jacobs, oscar de la renta, etc. by the end of the day, my head was spinning. and the thing is, all of these women, who don't work for a living and could pay my rent with the cost of a pair of their shoes, were REALLY nice. like shockingly, overly, super duper nice. not fake nice. just genuinely nice. and seemingly unaware that they're the top 1% of the population. it was surreal. but still included lots of beach knitting time.

and with that, ladies and gentleman (micah), we have heel: