If you’re wondering what to wear on Valentine’s Day (or what to buy to celebrate the end of the Shoe Challenge at the same time!), Dune have handily named these heart-print sandals “Valentine”, to steer you in the right direction.
I’m not much of a fan of wearing hearts on Valentine’s Day (or any kind of “themed” dressing, come to think of it), but I’d happily wear these at any time of the year: I love the heart print and the cute little bow!
If you’re the type who likes your shoes to match your handbag (I know this is very frowned upon by some!), there’s even a little heart-covered clutch bag to match:
Awww!
Both of these are available from the Dune website: click here to buy them.
I’ve been looking at this image for a few minutes now, and it’s not good, I just can’t decide which colour I like best. It was the pink/lilac version which caught my eye, but the pale blue/tan is also very sweet, and would tie in nicely with the pastel obsession I’ve got going on right now, so I kinda love them, too!
(These are also available in two black/tan colourways, but as much as I love those colours together, even I was so busy admiring the more colourful versions that they didn’t even get a look in!)
These are by Mark Fast, for Aldo’s RISE collection, which sees various designers create designs for the high street retailer. These, for instance, are £125 each, which, although not cheap, is more in line with Aldo’s pricing than Mark Fast’s, for sure!
There’s an obvious bit of Shoe Deja Vu going on here between these Buffalo sandals, and Miu Miu’s polka dot platforms from last summer: the bright green upper, the crossover front, the ankle strap and the platform. Nevertheless, they’re not identical: the Buffalo version adds a blue platform, and uses slimmer straps -there’s definitely no danger of them being mistaken for Miu Miu, but I’m rather taken with them all the same, as you can probably imagine. Well, green, polka dots, bright blue – it’s like they were made just to tempt me.
While we’re on the subject of polka dots, temptation, and Buffalo, here’s another pair from their summer collection which caught my eye:
Although I’m not a huge fan of flat shoes, I always like to have at least one red pair in stock at any given time, and I wear them until they fall apart, red being one of my shoe “neutrals”. These ones are super-cute, and will add a touch of fun to even a dull pair of jeans…or shorts, or whatever else you want to wear them with.
You can click here to view these, and the rest of the Buffalo collection, at Spartoo.
OK, I give you all fair warning here: I am absolutely obsessed with mint right now. Obsessed. And yes, I know I’m more or less always obsessed with green, in all of its various guises, but it would seem that the fashion world is aiding and abetting me with the “mint” thing, because I’ve been seeing products in this shade everywhere lately: in fact, I bought a mint coloured dress just this week, and I have my eye on some more minty fresh pieces too. I may need an intervention.
Mint coloured shoes are also on my list, of course, and at the very top of that list is Office’s ‘Kourt’, which I have to point out is their deliberate spelling error, not mine. A standard shape and a beautiful colour make these almost irresistible to me, and I wouldn’t say no to the nude version either. Well, I rarely do, do I?
Want to join me in a world of minty goodness? Click here to buy these from Office, where they’re £65.
Meet Kurt Geiger’s ‘Esme’. Esme is one of those shoes which lures you in with her soft beige and eggshell upper – so far, so very soothing – and hits you smack in the face with a bright yellow heel:
With studs on.
And OK, these shoes won’t actually smack you in the face: that would be really painful. The heels are a little bit unexpected, though, and although I do like them, my natural aversion to anything neon tells me that I’d have liked them even more without the yellow.
That’s just me, though, and I’m not sure the bright colour would put me off, were they to magically appear on my shoe shelves, say.
I don’t know about you, but I tend to think of LK Bennett as a very understated kind of brand: their shoes are beautiful and elegant, true, but they’re not often what you’d call “exciting” – or, at least, not until now.
These coral and silver ‘Romance’ sandals are the kind of shoes that instantly made me go wow… and start feverishly dreaming up excuses to wear them. I’m still drawing a blank with that for the time being, but if you’re not, you need to know that they’re also available in black…
You may be experiencing a slight sense of Shoe Deja Vu right now. Don’t worry: if you sit down and take a few deep breaths it will pass, as you realise that, yup, it’s another Miu Miu-inspired peep toe with that distinctive flared heel.
These ones are from A|Wear, which means that they’re definitely a lot more affordable than the designer versions, at £45. They come in bright red and blush-pink patent – two colours guaranteed to give me a headache as I try to decide which pair to go for – and you can click here to buy them.
Well, these are just as sweet as cherry pie, aren’t they? And there was obviously no possible way for me to avoid saying that, once I’d read the name of them: sorry.
These are the latest offerings in my continuing quest to bring you shoes that don’t have skyscarper heels: these come in at 3.5″, which isn’t exactly “low”, either, but is still a good bit shorter than the 5″ platforms we see so much up, and isn’t it nice to see a cute design applied to a lower heel?
I , of course, like the polka dots, and I also like the little berry decoration on the toe (Which looks more like a blackberry than a cherry to me, but hey, let’s not pick hairs. Or even fruit.), which is something a little bit different.
They look nice on, too:
Fancy a pair? These are £45, and you can click here to buy them at Schuh.
