255 Blog entry about her sister's
shoe loss on a subway and eventual return of her shoe
256 Blog account of a flip
flop lost in subway
296 Account of girl in one shoe in airport
in Kansas
297 Account of
girl who lost a shoe getting on the subway and had it recovered
298 In Shanghai her shoe fell off while
riding across a river in a cart
316 One shoe lost
and later recovered riding subway
324 Australian girl Katie loses a
shoe on the Sydney metro
325 Sara lost a shoe on the Paris
Metro
326 Amanda lost a shoe to
a subway
353 Account of a shoe lost and found
getting on the subway in New York (5/26/06).
354 Another account of a mule lost and
recovered frmo a subway track.
355 Ashlee took a picture of
her feet after losing a sandal getting on the subway in NYC.
369
Subway loss in Germany and recovery 5 hours later
370
Blog account of a shoe lost on a subway - thrown out by a friend at a station stop.
381
Girl's trendy pump falls off getting on train, man accidently kicks it into gap but later he gets it back for her
Sporting Events
40 Shoe of a female biker fall
in river and she has to complete her long journey home one-shod.
79 Photo of female athlete in one shoe during a
race
246
This triathelete lost a shoe on the bicycle segment
Concerts/Shows
9
Fan at a Barry Mantilow Concert (Another Link)
10
Katie Holmes interview w/ Dave Letterman
36 Girl at concert drops shoe in open air
duct
48 Lady loses a shoe on an elevated platform during a
church concert - see her embarrassing moment.
51 Girl Loses shoe under seat in front of her at
Jay Leno show.
67 Stripper loses one pump during
show. Briefly mentions her looking for it at the end.
86 Teenager looses her shoe at pop concert, and
never gets it back (true story).
194 Singin' in the Rain theatre review
238 Samantha Stewart loses a shoe at 'fantastic' Idlewild gig!
277
Skip down to 'She wasn't my Cinderella' in this blog to see how this guy rescued a girl's shoe that fell
off in the
subway
293
Account of a girl in London who lost a shoe at a concert
340 Shoe lost in subway
train
FanFic
8
Monkees FanFic - never resolved shoe loss of a bride at a wedding
15 X-Files Dana Scully Fanfic - Scully awakens in the middle of the night to leave Mulder's
apartment but he kicks one of her shoes under a table to keep her there.
38 Port Charles FanFic - girl had to leave a shoe
behind in a rushed departure.
196 Alias TV FanFic- 'Rules of
Engagement'
231 Fan Page for Legend of the
Condor Heroes novel - storyline includes a taken shoe that leads to love.
Published Articles
11 Hose with Mules 1 (informative, not a
loss)
13 Reporter buys mules
and describes how difficult they were to wear (informative, not a loss)
25
Explaination of Cock a Doodle Doo nursery rhyme
27 See the article One Shoe
Off: Jennifer Weiner.
57 Canadian Historic legend that
involves a girl's lost slipper in the mud
58 Story of Fiction with a
Cinderella theme - occurs at an office - shoe gets lost on elevator.
148 See the cover of the Jennifer Weiner book, In Her Shoes
204 Fodor's Forum: Ever
lose a shoe on an airplane?
207 (Book) Bet Me: Jennifer Crusie
212 Alex's Custom One Shoe Videos (Moved form main
menu 17)
214 Cleveland Cavalier dance
team girl's superstition is against wearing one shoe
215 Under Chelsea scenes in left column, photo and
text speculation about a lost shoe on the street
216 (Book:) Beth Ciotta's "Charmed" has a Cinderella
theme within
233
(Book:) Pamela Toth's Millionare Takes a Bride - has a lost shoe element
239 Skip 2/3 down to Georgie Usher - she
wears miscolored thong sandals because she lost one
242
Newspaper Article discussing theories on lost shoes on the road
243
Follow-up article where a lost and found shoe in 1951 was recounted
244
Poem with a one shoe theme
257
Cinderella twist to a Prom story
283
In the UK newspaper (Wiltshire) - Sarah lost a shoe coming home from a Christmas party
356 Review of a Play
(Gone Missing) where a character loses a shoe and seeks to find it.
357 A Dear Diary feature from 1/15/07 includes a shoe loss
scenario.
358 Julie Shapiro has written a book
that was written based on a fictional account of shoes she found abandoned in real life.
367 NT Times article from April 10, 1913! Story is about a man stealing shoes from women near subway station (You will need registration)
371
News story of a fashion show in India where a mode's shoe came off and landed in the audience - she carried on.
372
Lady stepped out of grey pump on curb in NYC, chased a street cleaner to retireve it.
Celebrities
46 Female astronaut looses shoe in space
station Mir.
70 Sportsjournalist mentions losing a shoe at a
NCAA selection party
169 Designer had to add a backstrap to
Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham's mules to keep them from coming off in a concert.
186
Mascot airport in Sydney; Mrs Petrov lost her shoe in April 1954 as armed Soviet officials were escorting
her to a plane bound for Russia. There is a current search for the shoe that was lost.
240a b Stories related to Nancy Pelosi,
House Minority Leader, who lost a pink slingback during a Capitol building evacuation.
259
Samantha Brown from the Travel Channel had trouble keeping her shoes on walking down a staircase while
filming an episode of her show
295 Blogger noted that Sarah Jessica
Parker kicked one of her shoes into the audience while filming an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show
310
Deborah Harry (Blondie) gave away one shoe then the other at a concert in Reno, NV - one's strap may have
broken.
317 Sandra Bullock
has taken off a shoe and is showing it to the reporter
329 Sandra Oh
joking refers to a love of wearing one shoe in this October '06 InStyle article
340 Also.. Penelope Cruz posing with
one shoe off..Thanks Willy R.
341
American Idol contestant, Kellie Pickler's shoe stuck on stage
342
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden - her shoe kept coming off on brick sidewalk
343
Laura Bell Bundy loses shoe on stage in San Francisco during Legally Blonde
GOOGLE print
(print.google.com) - requires registration to use
262
The scene in Night of the lIving Dead near the beginning where she loses both shoes occurred becaue she
lost one shoe
accidently and they added the second shoe loss to allow her to be barefoot in the rest of the scene instead
of on
shod.
263
Account of Julia Roberts losing a shoe getting in a cab while chased by papperatzi.
264
Tatum O'Neill once hid Britt Ekland's shoe while at Rod Stewart's house so she could not leave.
287
"Shoes on the Highway"
289 Exeprt from a book called 'Date Night' with a lost shoe
290 Exerpt form a book 'Footnotes on Shoes'/ with a lost shoe
291 Lost Shoe poem from a book called 'Rhymes and Verses'
318 One Night of Passion - Elizabeth Boyle; Page 52
330 Character in 24/7 by Susan DiPlacido loses one of
her $900 shoes at a wedding
331 Famous US baseball player Orel
Hershiser's wife Jamie lost a shoe in a crowd following a game.
332
Book: One shoe account in So Little Time a book based on characters played by the Olsen twins
333 Author Julie Anne Shapiro is writing a book
based on lost shoes she finds - makes up stories to explain the losses
Recovered Dead Links
7
Job Revenge shoe hiding story
21
On a UK Talkshow, responses to question about losing shoes
30 A girl's shoe fell off riding a ferris wheel type ride
31 Lady's shoe stolen from under desk at work - see July 24th entry
32 Stormchaser lost her shoe - see April 30th entry
35 Iris' Daily Ditties - see day #19
37 Prologue to a book called Glass-Slipper.Com - includes a lost shoe and eventual return
52 Woman gets lost in a hotel while searching for her room, and drops in dark one of her pumps and leaves it behind.
59 TV Commercial with a lost shoe theme - ironic result.
84 Teenager looses one backless platform shoe during roller coaster ride (true story).
85 Shoe saleswoman loses a red pump she borrowed, and places a personal ad in the paper.
90 In a true story, Colby Thomas drops her shoe through decoration during staging of ?Phantom of the Opera.? The shoe is recovered after the show.
105 Ghost of 18th century woman having lost one of her dress slippers, still seen and heard at haunted Virginia house.
114 Girl lost her backless shoe at amusement park; a maintenance person had to pick it up for her afterwards.
115 College student lost one shoe and had to leave it behind when she stepped on a loose manhole cover and fell partially in it.
117 While taking pictures on the shore, a wave crashed suddenly, and pulled one flipflop of the girl never to be recovered. - see 8/21 entry
130 Woman is trapped in the crowd trying to enter movie theatre, her clog falls off when someone steps on it, seemingly never to be seen again - but afterwards she recovers the clog - a humorous, probably ficticious story.
140 An unusual Cinderella-themed story worth reading
142 The Blue Mule - A Play In One Act
143 Woman's boot gets stuck in stirrup riding to go vote. Leaves horse in one shoe to vote.
146 Guy hides friend's unwelcome female guest's shoe in his duffelbag - causes her to leave one shod
152 During walk in forest, woman?s shoe sucked off in the mud.(Thanks, Droppedit!)
159 A high school business teacher lost a shoe getting out of her car in a muddy parking lot
162 How a Pub keeps form losing beer steins in the UK (Thanks Susan!)
163 Case of the Missing Shoe - story about a lady losing a shoe out of her van whlie out shopping
171 Jill, an artist, collected 64 lost shoes and made an art exhibit out of it.
187
Finding a Solemate - story (Romancing the Christian Heart)
203 Barbara lost a backless sneaker traveling cross-country with her husband.
205 Note From Maggie One Shoe
223 Poem about a found lost shoe
224 Lost shoe under next stall in restroom (Will have to find entry for: September 15, 2004)
232 Cinderella story set in modern time but this girl abandons a clog when running from a band concert
235 LA County school film project about a lost shoe saga at school
250
This school in Alberta Canada had an article in their newsletter that showed found shoes that needed to be claimed
252
Interesting petition to get a lost shoe back
255 Blog entry about her sister's shoe loss on a subway and eventual return of her shoe
284 Account of a sandal breaking during her graduation ceremony
100 A kid?s account of her mom leaving behind one flip-flop running through airport to catch a plane.
133 Girl?s shoe lost during rafting and she has to complete her journey one-shod.
150 Woman loses one deck shoe during yacht cruise.(Thanks, Droppedit!)
213 Slide (an expensive Olivia Rose Tal) lost during celebration after Tampa Bay Lightning Stanley Cup game (Thanks Nigel C!)
65 True story by a singer whose hi-heel shoe gets stuck during performance.
193 Sting Concert Review
210 Jasmine Trias (#3 in 2004 American Idol), account of concert shoe loss.
89 Buffy the Vampire Slayer FanFic
172 Mulan FanFic
12 Hose with Mules 2 (informative, not a loss)
17
Slovac film about a lady in the city who loses a shoe to concrete
56 Why is it that one shoe of a pair always disappears?
16
Actress, Julie Delpy, gets heel stuck in dock at hotel in Cannes
47 Guest co-host on Live with Regis related story about losing shoe on elevator.
161 Soap Star, Tracy Shaw, from the UK has a designer sandal stolen at a party. (Thanks Susan!)
164 Cindy Crawford has a pair of $800 Jimmy Choos stolen going through airport security
165 Alicia Silverstone is refused entry because she was barefoot following a pedicure.
260
Blog account of Tara Reid losing a shoe for 45 minutes at a party
261 (b) News article about Nicky Hilton replacing a shoe that came off on the runway of a charity fashion event.
292 Excerpt from page 62 of the book 'The Man Who Was Walter Mitty' has an interesting one shoe story
NOTE: Credit Due...Although a lot of these links are my own Google search finds, I appreciate the
contributions from Droppedit, Nigel C, Karen, Mikeey, Wang Tohan, Snowman, Nylonman (NM), Susan and others.