BEST BUYS

Greer Wylder

Imelda Marcos clones will like the new Silver Feet shoe boutique at

South Coast Plaza. After running Fred Segal Feet on Melrose in Los

Angeles for 15 years, Patricia and Stanley Silver have opened Silver

Feet. The Silver’s have built a name for themselves by introducing

undiscovered designers and cutting-edge shoe collections to the U.S., and

they have developed a local client list that reads like a Hollywood who’s

who, from Kevin Costner to Celine Dion, to Barbra Streisand and Bette

Midler. The 2000-square-foot South Coast Plaza store carries a collection

of cutting-edge footwear and accessories, and features over 600 shoe

styles for men, women and children.

For the best buy in town on Reyn Spooner shirts, stop by Atkinson’s Men’s

Clothing for its endless summer sale. Reyn Spooner shirts are reduced to

$42.50 through Sept. 18. Atkinson’s carries top quality men’s clothing

and accessories. It’s at 3430 Via Lido in Newport Beach.

A Best Buy on a fund-raiser to benefit the HomeAid chapters of Orange

County and greater Los Angeles/Ventura is a $5 general admission

Playhouse Tour Ticket, or a ticket to the Auction Party, $20 for adults

and $5 for children 12 and under. The Project Playhouse builder teams

have built a village of full-size, elaborate children’s playhouses that

will be on public display at Fashion Island from Sept. 17 to Oct. 16. The

14 builder teams include Capital Pacific Holdings Inc.; Griffin

Industries; Neiman Marcus with Tony Valentine Construction; Newport Beach

Fire Fighters; Osborne Development; Pardee Homes; Presley Home of

Southern California; Taylor Woodrow Homes; Terry Lumber Construction; The

Richard Crawford Co.; Trimark Pacific Homes; William Lyon Homes; WMC

Development LLC; and Xbalanque Corp. Each playhouse will be sold to the

highest bidder at the auction party, set for Oct. 16 at Fashion Island.

Tickets include admission to the auction, dinner, family, entertainment

and a guided tour of the playhouses on a weekend day. HomeAid Orange

County is celebrating its 10th anniversary of building and renovating

shelters for the temporarily homeless. For more information on Project

Playhouse, please contact HomeAid at (949) 553-9510.

Don McLean is in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at OCC in the Robert B. Moore

Theater. McLean hits include “American Pie” and “Vincent (Starry Night).”

Tickets are $33 in advance, $29 for seniors and children, and $37 at the

door. The Robert B. Moore Theater is at Arlington and Fairview in Costa

Mesa.

Making Faces, at (949) 646-5009, is a skin care salon that offers

head-to-toe skin treatments -- such as a five different facials,

antiaging treatments, eye lifting treatment, facial peels, body care salt

glow, antistress back treatment, body wrap, and a full body massage.

Other services available are eye lash and brow tinting, waxing,

manicures, pedicures and makeup applications. Making Faces gives a free

treatment with the purchase in advance of six treatments. You only pay

for five. The offer excludes the PowerPeel treatment. Gift packages are

also discounted 10% to 15% and those include the classic day of beauty at

$130, the executive stress relief at $160, and the royal treatment at

$220. Making Faces is at 747 Dover St. in Newport Beach. It’s open

Tuesday through Saturday.

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is scheduled for Sept. 26 at Fashion

Island in Newport Beach. You can save $5 on registration fees by

preregistering before Sept. 18. There are walk-in registration stations

set up from Friday to Sept. 21 at the New Balance store at Corona del Mar

Plaza and at the Fashion Island concierge desk. The preregistration fees

are $25 for adults, and youth and seniors $15. Registration on the race

day begins at 6:30 a.m. The family one mile fun run/walk starts at 7:30

a.m., the women’s 5K run/walk starts at 7:50 a.m., the coed 5K run starts

at 9:40 a.m., and the coed 5K walk starts at 9:45 a.m. The event starts

and finishes at Pacific Life, 700 Newport Center Drive in Newport Beach.

For more information, please call (714) 957-9165.

For the first time ever, the Orange County Fairgrounds will have a Craft

& Sewing Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning today through

Saturday. The price for admission is $7, which gets you in every day of

the festival. The event will feature the latest in supplies, fabrics,

pattern and tools for making crafts, needle-arts, quilts and sewing.

There also will be seminars, make-and-take workshops and demonstration

stations. For more information, please call 1-800-96CRAFT.

BEST BUYS is published Thursdays and Saturdays. If you know of a good

buy, send a fax to (949) 646-4170 or write to Daily Pilot, Best Buys, 330

W. Bay St., Costa Mesa 92627.