Straw shoes and sandals ‘come alive’ when worn.  In the gallery below, model Virginia Li and photographer Larry Hightower team up to present China 8a (NCn12) from the Collection.  All of the images in this gallery were shot out-of-doors in natural light with no enhancement of the images.  The camera was a Panasonic Lumix FZ35 equipped with a lens hood and a Tiffen UV Protector filter.

In the gallery below, our second model Kaycee presents item China25 from the Collection, a raffia covered high heel sandal made in China by Rocket Dog:

Next, Kaycee models straw platform wedges from Indonesia.  A unique design with the weight resting on a sphere as part of the wedge, Indonesia1 (SeA5):