SHOEPHORIC, a group of lovely ladies who all have a profound passion for shoes, gathered at Life Sciences at the Fort Bonifacio to start the year with kindred spirits.

Shoephoric, a website founded by shoe enthusiast and tech genius Ann Jacobe, has grown to be a community of fun loving, shoe loving women. Ann was introduced to me by my good friend and technology innovator Paul Pajo and it has been a meeting of passion for shoes ever since.

This new year, Shoephoric gathered all the ladies to start the year right with cocktails, a lot of fellowship, and great stories about shoes, our current style obsessions, and of life itself.

The website itself promises to be better, bigger, and with more shoe features. It is a great archival tool for us to keep track of what shoes we own, what we want to dispose, and what we want to keep forever.

For women, shoes make the complete outfit, and give us this bliss that sometimes we cannot get from other sources. It may be shallow, but shoes, for some women, are sources of inspiration. They may be worldly, but the inspiration we get from these beautiful sole mates is priceless.

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