Carvela’s yellow suede ‘Gypsy’ slingbacks are currently en route to Shoeper Towers, and I can’t wait for them to arrive! I already have quite a few outfit ideas for these – in fact, I’m starting to wonder how on earth I ever managed without them! – but I thought it might be fun to see how YOU’D all wear them, too: well, you were the ones who picked them, it’s only right that you get to style them, too!
For this Shoeper Style Challenge, then, as with last week’s challenge, I’m asking you to create an outfit to wear with these shoes, and post the image in the comments section of this post. (If you want to use Polyvore for this, you’ll find the shoes here.)
Wow. Can you believe we’re to Week 50? Because I can’t. It honestly feels like just a few weeks since I started this challenge, and now it’s almost over!
So, who’s still playing along at home, I wonder? And which shoes made the cut this week? Remember, you have just two more weeks to wear your shoes before the challenge ends, so if you have any left to save, now’s the time to do it!
As always, post your shoe save images in the comments below, and let’s see which shoes are safe!
Why am I showing you such a boring pair of shoes, you might be asking right now? After all, they’re just black peep toes, and God knows, it’s not like black peep toes are hard to find, right?
Well, I’m showing you them because I love them, and I always have. This is one of my very favourite Louboutin styles, and one of the first pairs I’d buy if I suddenly found myself rich. I just love the way the red of the sole carries through to the platform on the peep toe: such a small detail, but it makes such a difference. These are classic Louboutin, and are £494 at Louisa Via Roma: click here to buy them.
Shoes with ankle straps aren’t generally the first style I’ll reach for when I’m shopping (although I do have a few pairs which I love!), but something about the chunky shape of these court shoes from French Connection really drew me to them. I think the colour helps, here: these shoes are also available in black, and while they’re still nice, they just don’t pack quite as much of a punch as the red version, with their thick heel and matching platform.
You put these on via a zip at the back of the heel:
with the gold hardware on the zip and buckle also providing a bit of contrast with the red suede.
These are currently down to £136 from £160 at Spartoo, and are available in sizes 4 – 7.5. Click here to buy a pair.
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that I’m a huge fan of a simple, skin-toned pump, and it looks like Kate Beckinsale is, too: here she is wearing a pair of Brian Atwood’s ‘Maniac’ pumps to a photocall for her new movie, ”Underworld: Awakening” in Madrid.
These shoes are a celebrity favourite, and have appeared on the red carpet numerous times now, on the feet of various stars: despite being very plain, they still somehow manage to be absolutely stunning…
As you may have gathered from my recent posts about them, I’ve been spending a bit of time browsing the Very.co.uk website this month, and wondering why it is that I always seem to forget about it when I’m looking for interesting shoes or clothes to blog about? The shoes shown above aren’t the most interesting pair in the world – even I sometimes think a shoe can have too many bows for its own good – but they are only £24 in the sale, so I thought I’d show you them anyway (even although you may well resent me for it when you discover that there aren’t a lot of sizes left: sorry.)
These are from Very’s Holly Willoughby range, and you can click here to buy them. Also from the Holly Willoughby range, and completely unrelated to the world of shoes, is this dress:
I know a lot of people hate grey, but l’m not one of them! This is £39 here.
As I’m sure you probably know, Karl Lagerfeld’s ‘KARL’ line for Net-a-Porter launched yesterday, to great excitement. I’ll be honest: while I like the shoes pictured at the top of this page, none of the rest are my taste at all, but they may well be yours, so I’ve included some of the other shoes from the collection in the gallery below.
What do you think of these, and of the KARL collection in general?
(Click here to see the rest of the pieces at Net-a-Porter.)
I’m doubling up on this Shoe Save, because both of these shoes are styles you’ve seen here lots of times before: my third (and final!) pair of Miss Selfridge ‘Polly’ platforms, and another pair of nude pumps, this time from Dorothy Perkins:
These shoes both fall into the category of shoes I’ve already worn this year, but haven’t photographed: in the case of the nude pumps, it wasn’t really much of an issue because they can be worn any time, but the ‘Polly’ shoes are really a “dry weather only” style because of the pale colour and fabric upper, so I have to confess, I’m actually just wearing them around the house today because I can’t really imagine the current wet and muddy weather lessening up much in the next few weeks! It’s only a very small “cheat”, though, because as I said, I did wear them during drier days this year!
And with that, I have just two pairs left to go: they’re both “party” shoes, but luckily I have two events lined up to wear them at, so I think I’ll manage. How’s everyone else getting on with the challenge?
