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.
Are these shoes krazy – sorry, I mean crazy – enough for you? Maybe a little bit too crazy, actually, what with the orange/pink/yellow/blue mix? Well, OK, how about a slightly less neon version?
These are Office’s ‘Krazy Paving’ peep toes, they’re £78, and while they’re not the kind of shoes I’d buy, they are the kind of shoes that would make me stop, pick them up, and maybe even try them on, just for the hell of it, if I saw them in store.
These shoes will probably be instantly familiar to regular Shoeper readers, because they’re almost identical to a pair River Island released last year, just with a slightly higher platform.
That said, I still came very close to marking these as Shoe Kryptonite, because seriously:
This particularly cocktail of colours isn’t one I’d have come up with myself, and if you were to simply describe it to me without showing me the picture, I probably wouldn’t even WANT to see the picture. But having seen it, I have to say that if it wasn’t January, and if I wasn’t broke, and if I didn’t have just a few more weeks of the Shoe Challenge left, and far too many pairs of shoes to get through in them, I would be sorely tempted by these.
As it is, I’m going to have to allow you to be tempted by them instead: they’re £75, they’re available here, and they’re selling out fast, so if you want them, you better get clicking!
I know you’ve seen more or less this exact outfit from me several times now (Hence the title of this post: I figured red shoes + polka dots = classic Shoeperwoman), but folks, I don’t mind admitting that I’m getting desperate here. I start to panic every time I think of all of the shoes that still need to be saved before the end of this challenge, and if blatantly repeating outfits helps me do it, then so be it!
These shoes are by Office, and have already become one of my go-to shoes:
For all those of you (and by that I mean “for me”) who missed out on Carvela’s gorgeous ‘Grass’ wedges earlier this year, here’s another red wedge, this time from Office.
These are called ‘Wonderland’, and, unlike the Carvelas, they have a large, double bow on the toe. Personally – and a little unusually for me – I preferred the sleeker shape of ‘Grass’, but these are a very cute alternative, and red shoes always take on an extra-festive feel at this time of year.
If you like these, however, I bring bad news, too, in that they’re already selling out fast. They’re £75, and you can click here to see if they’re available in your size. (Mine is gone: my money is safe for now…)
For one thing, they sort of look like a cartoon version of a cap-toed pump. Like, if you asked a little kid to draw a pair of white shoes with a black toe, this the the kind of thing he’d come up with. And if your shoes look like they belong on a cartoon character, well, there’s a good chance that YOU’LL look like the cartoon character they belong on, isn’t there? I somehow doubt that’s ANYONE’S main style aspiration. Well, OK, maybe Katy Perry’s, but celebrities don’t count.
There’s another reason why these shoes bother me, though. It’s the nose. I mean, it DOES look like a nose, doesn’t it? In fact, it looks a bit like my dog’s nose, and while that’s perfectly cute on him, I can’t say I’ve ever looked at it and thought, “You know, that would look great on a pair of wedges!”
Is it just me? Office are urging people to snap these up “before they’re all gone”, so I’m thinking maybe it is. If you want to obey them, these are also available in black, and you can click here to buy them for £95.
Remember Office’s ‘Minted’ pumps, which I showed you earlier this year, and declared to be “the most perfect nude pumps on the high street right now”? (Exaggerate? Who, me?)
Well, look at what they’ve gone and done now:
They’re only the most perfect pair of GREEN pumps on the high street right now, aren’t they?
And now I’m gutted, because of course, I’m going to HAVE to add them to my wish list, aren’t I? And to think about buying them, even although they’re the last things I need. (Oh, but I can think of the perfect dress to wear with this shade of green…)
Want a pair? As well as the nude and green, these are also available in black and blue, and are £70: click here to buy them for me.
As some of you may have seen me mention on Twitter recently, Office has a new website, and I love it: it’s much cleaner, and easier to navigate than the old version, which means it’s much easier to find shoes! Within a few seconds of landing on the homepage this morning, for instance, I found myself admiring these ‘Asymmetric Kicks” platforms, which come in red and green, and cost £80.
The thick platforms give these shoes a very 70s feel, which means that although I absolutely love the colours (and especially that green suede), my money is safe, because they’re just a little too chunky for me. I do like the asymmetric uppers, though, which help set these shoes aside from all of the legions of other platforms out there right now, and which look like a shoe boot from one side, and a Mary Jane from the other: an interesting effect, which I’d really like to see on a foot, so I can decide what I really think about them.
