When it comes to soft, won’t-exactly-last-for-years ballet flats, let’s just say I know where I’m going.
And it’s not going to be Chloe.
Designer on a Budget: Ballet flats by Chloe and New Look 
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Designer on a Budget: Ballet flats by Chloe and New Look
Shoe Deja Vu: Lace-up wedge boots by Chloe and Matalan
Matalan are far from the only brand to have offered up their take on Chloe’s leather lace-up wedge boots from last season, but theirs are one of the cheapest versions I’ve found so far, at just £24.
Of course, the Matalan boot is canvas, not leather, and they’ve used a different colour scheme in order to avoid looking too much like the originals, but the inspiration is still pretty evident. These boots aren’t a style I’d normally go for, and I’d never have paid £480 for them, but I must admit, I could have been tempted by the £24 version, which look like they could make a comfortable, casual alternative to heels for Autumn, IF they hadn’t been in a cream canvas, which would remain cream for, ooh, probably about five seconds at most, if I tried to wear them during a typical British Autumn. Or even summer.
If you’d like to give them a try, however, they’re available here.
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See by Chloe floral wedge sandals
“Pretty” isn’t generally a word I tend to associate with wedges. They can be amazing, sure, and they can be cute, and fun, and all kinds of other adjectives, but they’re not often what I’d call “pretty”.
These ones, however? These ones are pretty. Oh, so pretty, with that amazing carved wooden heel, featuring a floral detail that stretches all the way round to the platform sole. The uppers, meanwhile, have sensibly been kept simple: the white fabric is light and summery, but will go with everything, and doesn’t draw attention away from the main attraction on the heel.
Best of all, they’re on sale: music to a shoe-lovers ear! These are by Chloe, and they’re £174 at Far Fetch.
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See by Chloe red nautical denim rope wedges
Last summer, I bought a pair of red canvas wedges from Matalan – in fact, I wrote about them here. They cost me £12, and it was one of the best £12′s I spent last year, because those shoes were hardly off my feet all summer. I wore them so much that by the time I dragged them out for my holiday to the Canary Islands in December, they were already starting to look the worse for wear. I took them with me anyway, and, once again, they rarely left my feet, which means that THIS summer I find myself badly in need of a replacement.
These Chloe wedges aren’t going to be that replacement. Because if I had £166 to spend on canvas wedges, I’d probably be reclining on a chaise somewhere right now and having my servant dictate this post. I do like them, though (although not as much as my Matalan versions, it must be said. Go figure.), and if, like me, you’re a fan of the nautical look, you’d probably find that these would get a lot of wear, once the warmer weather comes along.
I, meanwhile, am just REALLY hoping Matalan do another version of their wedges this year…
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Chloe Capretto white leather ballerina flats
I can’t say ballet flats are something I tend to be willing to spend a lot of money on. As pretty as they can be, the fact that the entire sole is in constant contact with the ground means I’m much harder on them than I am on shoes with heels, so they wear out much faster in my hands (or on my feet, rather) than other styles do. And I can’t say white ballet flats are normally high on my wish list, either: I almost always go for silver, gold or, er, leopard print when I’m buying this style of shoe, purely because they’re so versatile. (OK, maybe not the leopard print…)
With all of that said, though, these Chloe flats are really pretty, with their little chain-edged flower embellishments. Are they $495 worth of pretty? Not to me, I don’t think, but if they’re worth that much to you, you can buy them at Net-a-Porter.
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Chloe frill-back court shoes
These shoes confuse me – mostly, I think, because the two stand-out elements of them are in such direct contrast to each other. The rope-tie at the heel looks like it belongs on a deck shoe, or some other kind of nautical style, and would be out of place on any black court, let alone one with a large ruffle on the back of it:
See? If it didn’t look so much like a shoelace, it might have worked. Might have. What do you think?
Chloe ruffle back shoes, £379
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Chloe bow-embellished suede pumps
Hmm. I know you’re all probably expecting me to be drooling on my keyboard right now, purely because these shoes have bows, OMG, bows! on them, but actually… no. I’m not loving the current “as many bows as you can fit on the straps” movement in shoe design. Not at all. And OK, there are only three bows on these Chloe sandals, but they still look a little bit fussy to me, and the high leg bothers me, too.
Of course, all of this is academic as far as I’m concerned, because these are an astronomical £900. If that’s just pin money to you, though, you can buy them at Net-a-Porter.
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