Ruthie Davis has been obsessed with shoes for as long as she can remember. Her mother likes to tell the story of when she took Ruthie to get her first pair of shoes, a pair of red patent leather mary-janes. When the sales lady tried to take them off her feet to put them back into the box she started wailing; her first public tantrum.
"There was no way those babies were coming off my feet. I wore them out of the store. Growing up, my father would say that I either needed to marry rich or get into the shoe business to support my shoe habit. I chose the latter." more...