Opening Ceremony isn’t a brand I could claim to be particularly fond of: a disproportionate amount of their shoes could be described using the word “clumpy”, and I’m not totally sure these suede shoe boots don’t fall into that category too.
These do have a couple of points in their favour, however. One is the colour, which is glorious. The other is those haphazard looking bows, the placement of which stops them looking too twee, and makes the overall look a little more interesting.
Are those points enough to make up for the fact that these are, essentially, peep-toe boots? I really think these are the kind of shoes I’d need to see someone wearing in order to know how I really feel about them, but I’m not discounting them out of hand. If you’re not either, they’re available at Far Fetch, where they’re £280.
These gold wedges will be too shiny for some tastes, but I’m rather fond of a metallic wedge, particularly in the summer. Not only are wedges some of the most comfortable shoes you’ll ever walk in, the colour of these Marc Jacobs shoes will work with everything (or almost everything), and they’ll go easily from day to night, too. I’m picturing them worn with a print dress, a few gold bangles and a martini, ideally on a yacht in St Tropez or somewhere equally glamorous, but you could just as easily throw them on with a little black dress for an evening out. Double bows win Marc Jacobs double the Shoeper points for these ones, too!
I wish Yoox.com had provided a photo of these Moschino peep toes from the back: they look like they just might be wonderful, in a rather kitsch, 80′s fashion way, but the bow on the heel is the stand-out detail, and you just can’t see it properly because of the angle of the photo. There also looks like there’s an odd little elastic strap at the heel which I can’t quite see the use for, so another photo (or seeing them in real life) would help clear up that little mystery too.
Those points aside, the more I look at these shoes, the more I like them. The shape of the peep toe is particularly nice, and these have something of a fairytale feel to them – or maybe I’ve just been reading too many ‘Alice In Wonderland’ themed press releases lately. Also, look! Stripes on the insole! That does it for me…
If it does it for you, too, these are £195 at Yoox, with a range of sizes still available.
It’s been a while since Moda in Pelle managed to catch my attention with one of their shoes, so I was particularly pleased to stumble across these ‘Darla’ peep toes , which help feed my current obsession with all things navy! I especially like the colour combination of the bow on the navy shoes: the brown version isn’t quite doing it for me, but they’re still very cute, and I suspect that if I came across them on the sale rack, they’d probably be coming home with me!
If you can’t wait for the sale, these are £80 at Moda in Pelle.
These shoes also come in a reddish-pink colour, but for some reason that option doesn’t seem to be available on the Matalan website at the moment, which is a shame, because I think it’s prettier than this grey version.
I must admit, I haven’t been particularly impressed with Matalan’s shoe offerings over the past few months. I can normally find at least a couple of styles I like in there, but having visited the store and looked at the website, these are the first style of the year to grab my attention, so I’m hoping they have something spectacular planned for the summer! For now, though, these are certainly something of a bargain at £18: grab yourself a pair here.
This particular style of shoe has been around the block a few times now (those of you with long memories may remember the cute little red versions Dorothy Perkins released last year, amongst others), so I must confess that I have no idea who did it first. What I do know, however, is that ASOS.com’s £30 slingback is a much more affordable shoe than Moschino’s £225 version, although which pair you prefer is a matter of personal taste.
Which pair DO you prefer? If you’d take the ASOS shoe over its designer cousin, you need to know that it’s also available in nude and pink. Decisions, decisions…
I thought I’d finish this week the same way I started it: with a pair of bright pink (OK, magenta, then…) shoes with a bow on them somewhere. In this case, the bow is on the side rather than on the toe, and the colour is closer to purple than pink on my monitor, but hey, it’s Friday: cut me some slack here!
These shoes are also available in black, but this would be my choice of colour if I was in the market for a pair. They’re £35 from Dorothy Perkins.
Dorothy Perkins have just started stocking some styles by shoe brand ‘Timeless’, so the first thing to note about these shoes is that they’re ‘timeless’ by name, not necessarily by nature.
As it happens, I don’t think these shoes are particularly timeless-by-nature. At first glance I was instantly seduced by the bow on the front, which is certainly cute enough, but underneath that I’m seeing something I think of as a “clubbing shoe” – especially in the metallic purple version, seen in the middle of this photo.
Clubbing isn’t something I do a whole lot of these days, so shoes like this don’t hold a whole lot of appeal for me. If they appeal to you, though, they’re £55 and you can buy them here.
Opening Ceremony isn’t a brand I could claim to be particularly fond of: a disproportionate amount of their shoes could be described using the word “clumpy”, and I’m not totally sure these suede shoe boots don’t fall into that category too.
