SITE OF THE WEEK - Style Drops - Online Retail Site-

Style Drops – As a holiday gift, I treated myself to some hard to find Prada sneakers from Style Drops, Definitely worth taking a look if you haven't with a wide array of fine Italian shoes, Ferragamo, Prada, Miu Miu, John Galliano etc.

ONLINE SHOE RETAIL - Rated 1- 4 "Ruby Slippers" (about our ratings)

Bergdorf Goodman – Department store website with most designers, great inventory and easy to navigate site

Foot Candy Shoes – Top notch collection of Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, Alexandra Neel, Marc Jacobs, Valentino and many others

Gotham City Online – Wide selection of shoes with everything from Sigerson Morrison and Jimmy Choo to Adidas and Nine West

Neiman Marcus – Department store site, spectacular selection, full-retail prices though

Nordstrom – Nordstrom's department store site, lots of fine shoes from the World's top designers

Shop Bop – Fine site with top-notch selection of shoes from the brand names we know and love

Style Drops – Wide array of fine Italian shoes, Ferragamo, Prada, Miu Miu, John Galliano etc.

Vivre – Great website with large inventory of Vera Wang, Alexandra Neel, Loutboutin, De La Renta, Michael Kors etc.

Beverly Feldman Store – Great selection of Beverly Feldman shoes for sale, well laid out

Bloomingdale's – Bloomingdales department store site, worth a look

Blue Fly – Lots of Manolo, Jimmy Choos less than retail. Good stuff!

Dandelion Shoes – Cute site with nice selection of shoes from Marc Jacobs, Beverly Feldman, Anne Klien and others

Designer Exposure – Nice selection of shoes from Balenciaga, Jimmy Choo, Chanel and many more

InTrends – Great selection of shoes from a few big designers, i.e. Gucci, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana etc.

Jade Boutique – Find some shoes here that might otherwise go un-found from Manolo Blahnik, Christian Dior, Miu Miu, Chanel, and Jimmy Choo

Mona Moore – Canadian site w/Choos, Chloe, Lanvin, Van Noten and other cute shoes

My Cat Walk – Australian site with lots of Christian Louboutins, Nina Ricci, and Matthew Williamson shoes

Net-A-Porter – Great selection of brand names shoes

Rafaello-Network – Fine selection of discounted top name Italian shoes.

Tracey Ross – Ross's site with some other shoes for sale also

Yum Chu Chu – Italian site with a good selection of Prada, Miu Miu, etc.

Cricket's Shoes – Small online boutique with some known and smaller brands that you may not find anywhere else

Foot Notes Online – Large selection of some smaller brands, i.e. Via Spiga, Ugg, Emilio Pucci

Jildor – Some good shoes from a wide variety of mainstream brands

Ped Shoes – Long list of wildly cute but lesser known brands, including some Sigerson Morrison, Tsubo, and others

Scoop NYC – Small selection of gshoes from Michael Kors, Scoop, Marc Jacobs, Jimmy Choo, and others

Shoes.com – Lots of brands from good to bad, not high end

Shop Copper Penny – Smaller site with Beverly Feldman, Cynthia Rowley, Sigerson Morrison, and others

SHOE BRAND WEBSITES

INTERNATIONAL SHOE RETAIL

Barneys Japan – Much larger selection of shoes than US site, L.A.M.B. shoes, Giuseppe Zanotti, Alexandra Neel, Emilio Pucci and others (translated)

YOOX – Good French site with shoes from Prada, Stella McCartney, Michael Kors, Balenciaga and other goodies (translated)

Manolo Site – a couple good pairs of manolos, Italian site (translated)

ONLINE SHOE CONTENT - Shoe Mag, Shoe Discussion, Shoe Blog etc.

ELLE – Shoe gallery/slideshow of this season's hottest shoes and where you can go to track them down

Shoewawa – Site all about women's shoes!! Content and blog stuff

Design Museum – Great site with information on designers and the design museum in London

Fashion Tribes – Daily fashion blog

Fashion Windows – Good site with lots of opinionated content

Manolo the Shoe Blogger – Blog site for shoes

The Secret Life of Shoes – Marvelous blog site for shoes & shoe content, with lots of interesting pictures and commentary

OUR RUBY SLIPPER RATING SCALE

- Excellent site with paramount content and/or inventory presented in an outstanding manner

- Great site with wonderful inventory and/or content coupled with strong presentation

- Good site with strong content and pleasing design

- Mediocre site with sub-par content and/or inventory, not user friendly