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.
I have very little to say about these shoes that I haven’t already said on the subject of pretty, green peep toes, so I will simply leave you to speculate amongst yourselves about how long it will be before I’ll convince myself I need to buy them.
No recap of the year in shoes would be complete without a mention of my very favourite colour… I’ve spent 2011 drooling over these shoes: now here they are, so you can, too!
I mean, look at them. The green colour, the bow: they may as well have my name on them. And while I do own enough pairs of dark green shoes to have been able to successfully talk myself out of the various new pairs that have tempted me this year, I don’t have a pair in this particular shade of green. Which is, like, totally different you guys! Ahem.
Anyway, River Island have been using this very distinctive bow shape (now copied by various other brands) all year, and I’ve loved it every time. This time they’ve put it on the heel of the shoe, rather than on the toe, and it works rather well there, too:
This is the coral version, which is slightly less lust-worthy to me, but which I wouldn’t kick off the shoe shelves, if they were to magically appear there.
These are £85, and you can click here to buy them from River Island.
If you happen to have visited the Topshop website at any point in the past couple of days, I’m sure you probably guessed that these shoes would be appearing here at some point – probably sooner rather than later. Well, here they are: how could I possibly resist!
These are called Stare2 and they’re aptly named, because they certainly made me stare, that’s for sure. There’s nothing particularly revolutionary about the shape, but the colour is my all-time favourite shade of green, so naturally I think these are all kinds of fabulous.
There’s not much more I can say about these that I haven’t already said about the countless other pairs of green shoes I’ve shown you this year, so I will simply add that they’re £50 and you can click here to buy them. Let’s face it: I probably will…
My favourite colour, one of my favourite brands, and an absolutely beautiful shoe: it’s like Christmas has come early, isn’t it? Or rather, it would be if these were sitting under my Christmas tree (Confession: I don’t actually have a Christmas tree. But I could probably make one out of shoes if I really put my mind to it…) right now, rather than simply featuring on my website.
I think we need to see another photo of them, don’t you?
Oh-so-beautiful. And that green/silver combination is a route right to Shoeperwoman’s heart. The perfect party shoes, these sadly aren’t the perfect price – well, you weren’t really expecting them to be cheap, were you? They’re £739 and you can click here to buy them at Far Fetch.
I’ve been seriously spoilt for choice this year when it comes to green shoes. I feel like I’ve spent my whole life looking for them, and then this year here they all are at the same time: like the buses, I guess.
The latest pair of green goddesses to cross my radar are these ‘Pisa’ slingbacks, from ASOS. These are in a gorgeous, two-toned upper, combining bright, grass-green on the upper, with a darker shade on the heel and slingback. Speaking of the heel, that slight flare to it reminds me a bit of some of the styles Miu Miu have released this year, and gives it a more up-to-date feel than might have been the case with a straighter heel.
I really like these, although I’m sure that probably goes without saying! If you do too, they’re £75 and you can click here to buy them at ASOS.
