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Monthly Archives: August 2009Christian Louboutin Archidisco 120 T-bar sandals
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Remember the D&G bow-backed shoes I showed you a few weeks ago? Well, here’s the ankle boot version, with the bow on the toe rather than the heel, and looking a bit like an extravagantly-wrapped parcel.
G&G have made a few different shoes featuring this lace and satin ribbon recently, but I think these ones fall into the “pretty but impractical” category for me. They’re very much an evening style, but although the trend at the moment is for mini dresses with ankle boots for a “dressed up” look, it’s just not a look I love. These are $625.60 from Zappos Couture.
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How much would you pay for a pair of Wellington boots?
For me, the answer to that would be “not very much”. Wellies, like running shoes, are one of the few shoe purchases that give me no pleasure whatsoever, because they have a purely practical, rather than aesthetic purpose, and while it’s true that some wellies can be fun, with cute prints on them, the fact that the only person to see them would be me, while I’m out doing the garden, means I just refuse to spend very much on them.
These ones, then, although reduced in price to £48.93, are still waaaay more than I’d be prepared to pay for such footwear, but if you’re a Pucci lover, and think these are worth the investment, you can pick up a pair at The Outnet.
Would you, though?
Pucci-print Wellington boots, £48.93, The Outnet
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I have a bit of a “thing” for purple boots at the moment. Fi has a a fantastic pair from Next that I rather like the look of, but these ones from Dorothy Perkins have also caught my eye. The purple makes a nice change from black, but is also dark enough and neutral enough to be fairly versatile.
I also like the grey version of these, and the low-ish heel should make them easy to walk in. As ever with suede shoes/boots, I worry about taking them out in the rain (which pretty much rules out wearing them at all around here, unfortunately), but if you have similar concerns, the style is also available in brown leather.
Suede slouch boots, £65, Dorothy Perkins
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Juicy Couture isn’t a brand I generally pay much attention to, but I did rather like the look of this shoe charm when I stumbled upon it at Louisa Via Roma this morning.
Would I pay £51? Er, no. I’d buy actual shoes, obviously. If you’d buy it, though, you can do so here.
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Because what you wear WITH your shoes can be almost as important as the shoes themselves (Nah, not really, but let’s pretend…), today I bring you these Miu Miu socks, which, as you can see, are embellished with lots of little sequins and other things, and…
OK, I have to ask: HOW DO YOU WASH THEM? How? Without all of those bits coming off? Are you supposed to send your SOCKS to the dry cleaners now? Did I hear something about a recession, or did I just imagine that?
As well as being covered in sequins, these socks are also £245, which means they cost less than most shoes, unless, of course, you’re in the habit of always buying designer. Umm, wow.
Would you pay £245 for a pair of socks, folks? If so, get them at Net-a-Porter…
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The Fashion Police share five fashion phrases they hate.
Dollface wants to know, do you bother shaving your legs in the winter?
Keeping It Realtor finds good karma in a vase.
Grumpy Old Bloggers are bored by Baby On Board signs.
And Forever Amber finds herself in the middle of a crime scene.
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“Hmmm. We want to make a pair of brogues, but brogues can be kinda sensible, can’t they? A bit granny-ish. I know! We’ll give them a pink high heel! Girls love pink! And a frill! We’ll add a random frilly bit to the front! That’s sure to work. Maybe silver, say? And what the hell, we’ll give them a peep toe. Even boots have peep toes now, so that MUST be popular. Et voila!”
Or at least, that’s how I assume the thought process that was responsible for the creation of these Poetic Licence brogues went. They’re true Frankenshoes, looking like they’ve been pieced together from the bodies of other pieces of footwear. Bizarre, no?
Still, there’s no accounting for taste, and if yours runs to pink/brown/black/silver brogues, you can buy these ones for $79 at Poetic Licence.
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It’s a public holiday here in the UK, so as you read this, I’ll be making the most of the day off (or, more likely, I’ll still be in bed…), but I couldn’t leave you without new shoes to look at, so here’s Christian Louboutin’s Archidisco 120 t-bar sandals, chosen purely because they were the shiniest, goldest shoes I could find.