So, I ordered the Vivienne Westwood Lady Dragon shoes.
And the very next day, I sent them right back. I know, I still can’t quite believe it either. But quite apart from the fact that after my last little shopping excursion I’d vowed to buy no more shoes for the foreseeable future:
a) They were too big for me. (The size down was out of stock, and I could tell it would’ve been too small, anyway. Woe!)
b) In real life, the “peach” colour, which I’d hoped would be not too far off “nude”, was a lot more orangey than I was expecting it to be: it hasn’t really shown up properly in my photos either, but it was much more lurid than it looks here, and it made my feet look a really odd colour next to it.
Now, I could have exchanged them for a different colour (I really like the baby blue, for instance), but for once in my life I decided to do the sensible thing and just send them back. One thing I will say, though: I ordered the shoes from My-Wardrobe and was really impressed with the service. I placed my order on Friday morning and the shoes were with me early on Monday, having been trackable all the way. When I had to return them, they were also collected from my door free of charge, so there was no trip to the post office – always a bonus. (I hate the post office with a fiery passion).
There are a couple more photos under the jump: I’m still gutted these didn’t work out – I still love the shape of them, and although I wasn’t sold on the plastic (it stunk to high heaven, and Shoeperman thought it looked very cheap and a bit cartoonish), if Anglomania were to ever make a version of these in leather, say, I’d be ALL OVER THEM…
Fresh from their collaboration with Vivienne Westwood, Melissa are at it again, this time joining forces with Karim Rashid to create these pink wedges in the brands trademark plastic.
I was a huge fan of the Anglomania collaboration, but this one I’m not so sure about. I love the heels, but the super-pointy toes are putting me off a little. If you have no such qualms, however, they’re £70 from Browns: what do you think of them, though?
As anyone who knows me will tell you, my arch nemesis is none other than the Croc. I hate Crocs with a fiery passion, and unless you’re wearing them as gardening shoes or for some other, purely practical reason (I know some people with foot problems find them to be the only shoes they can wear, for instance, and obviously no one’s going to blame them for that), I can see no good side to them. At all. Sure, I’ve heard all of the “but they’re SO! COMFY!” arguments, but here’s the thing: I don’t care. Because LOTS of shoes are “comfy”, without looking like something the garden gnome just kicked off. Also: I actually tried a pair of Crocs on once, out of sheer curiosity, and let me tell you, I’ve worn comfier shoes.
But anyway. This post actually has nothing to do with my mortal enemy, Crocs, other than that I suspect these shoes, by Zaha Hadid for Lacoste, may be a close relation of them. They’re also made of plastic, but while they lack the clumpy, gnome-shoe look of Crocs, they more than make up for it with that strange, winding plastic strap that snakes up the leg.
What’s that about, then? Can you even IMAGINE how sweaty and uncomfortable that thing would be in warm weather? Or how ridiculous these would look on?
The Fashion Police arrested these shoes earlier today, and have asked me to use my superpowers to cast them into space. I’m only too happy to oblige, but if you love these, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until July, when they’ll be available from selected outlets. As someone comments at the Fashion Police, “just in time for the hot weather!”
These are the shoes that are currently sitting right at the very top of my “I want” list. They’re the famous Lady Dragon shoes from the Vivienne Westwood Anglomania/Melissa collaboration, and although I had my heart set on the nude/black combo, I wouldn’t say no to these ones, either, IF THEY WERE IN MY SIZE. Which they’re not. They’re also around £20 more expensive than they were when they were originally released last year, which is just the latest in a long saga concerning me and these shoes.
These, you see, are The Ones That Got Away. I managed to resist buying them when they were first released, telling myself that they were plastic, and what would I do with a pair of plastic shoes, really? But then time went by, and I thought, what WOULDN’T I do? And who knew plastic could be so. damn. pretty?
Anyway, I resisted, and then, of course, they sold out. Then they started appearing on eBay for £200 each. Which was around about the time I developed the Shoeperwoman Motto, which is:
“When you see shoes you love, in your size: BUY THEM. No, seriously: BUY THEM.”
Feel free to borrow this motto any time you like. You’re welcome.
The point of this post, however, wasn’t to whine about my lack of Lady Dragon shoes. (Well, it kind of was, but, you know.) No, the point was to inform you that they’re now back in stock at Coggles, although only in the blue/red shown above, and only in sizes 7 and 8 (UK). Naturally, I’m a size 4.
You know how it goes, though, folks: if the shoe fits, buy it – you can get them here.
So, I ordered the Vivienne Westwood Lady Dragon shoes.
Fresh from their collaboration with 
As anyone who knows me will tell you, my arch nemesis is none other than the 
These are the shoes that are currently sitting right at the very top of my “I want” list. They’re the famous 