Mr. Madoff, for instance, had a propensity for buying in bulk (he would catalog the same sweater in every color and pattern available), avoiding wrinkles (even his underwear was pressed and folded just so) and monogramming (Mr. Madoff's initials graced everything from T-shirts to drinking glasses to a pair of black velveteen slippers, size 81/2).
The slipper-size bazaar has hanging candle lanterns, thua-wood boxes, rugs, ceramic tagine cookers, platters and other furnishings from Morocco.
At the Bourbon Street Pup, 724 Duval Street, (305) 296-1992, the Red High Heel Drop stars the drag queen Sushi, who's winched down from a second-floor balcony in a ruby slipper the size of a small car, accompanied by the firing of a confetti cannon and a shower of champagne.
Ruland wondered about finding glass slippers in size 15, but the one-liners from the man who spent eight years in the National Basketball Association were matched by honest remarks about Iona's difficult task.
They both want electric toothbrushes, voice activated diaries, PJs, Slipper socks/slippers (Size 3), watches, games and money (saving for iPod touch etc) and a heart-shaped swimming pool in the garden.
Because of his mismatched feet, Tod Boddingham requested one standard extra-large slipper, equivalent to a size 13, and one custom designed size 14.5 slipper.
For two days prior to the event, St George's Hall was transformed into a mausoleum, as crowds paid respect to a recumbent grandmother in size 25 slippers.
It's also the Cinderella story of the neglected misfit winning the prince by getting her size-eight foot into a size-five glass slipper.
"When you try to put too many things into [a single CTSA], it's like putting a size-15 foot into a size-5 ballet slipper," he says.
Dan Lieb, president of the New Jersey Historical Divers Association, had not seen your missing size 8 water slipper, at least not that he mentioned.
"So here we are with a blinking great slipper that's equivalent to a size 1,450!
