You know what would be the perfect way to finish off this week? By slipping your feet into a pair of these little beauties, and going out dancing. Ideally there would be champagne involved, too.
I’m saving the champagne and fancy shoes (although not these ones, unfortunately) for Valentine’s Day, so I have no need of these gold Christian Louboutin slingbacks, unfortunately. That doesn’t mean I don’t WANT them, though, and I most certainly do want them. I mean, look at this:
Now THAT, my friends, is a bow. In fact, all of the other bows in the world are currently looking at this photo and feeling totally inadequate because of it. Except the Valentino bows, obviously. And, OK, the Ted Baker bows. All other bows? Must bow to these ones. And then rest easy, because as gasp-worthy as these are, the shoes they’re attached to cost $2,395, so they’re probably NOT going to take over the world.
OK, NOW do you believe me that the fashion world is actively targeting me this season? That shoes designers are putting their heads together and saying, “Now, let’s see: how can we get all of Shoeperwoman’s money?” Because they SO ARE. Seriously, the green? The navy? The stripes? THE BOWS, people? And OK, the heels on these wedge sandals are a little bit lower than I’d generally go for, true. That’s the only reason I’m not taking this one personally, though. Oh, and the final nail in the coffin?
They’re also available in red and tan. I DIE.
I particularly like the bow on these shoes: it’s not quite as dramatic as the one Ted Baker has made his own, but it’s still a very cute, “puffy” shape, and the patent trim is a nice touch, too. And while I personally prefer my wedges as high as is humanly possible, I have to admit that these ones will probably be a little more practical than the skyscrapers I usually tend to go for.
These shoes are by C.Petula: a brand which is appearing on Shoeperwoman.com for the first, but probably not the last, time. They’re £167 and you can click here to buy them at Spartoo.
Many years ago, back when I used to write for Shoewawa, one of the other writers wrote an “Ugly Shoe of the Week” post about a pair of shoes by Luichiny which were so ugly they literally made me gasp. Out loud. At my desk.
Thankfully for me, time has erased the details of those shoes from my mind, and I can’t actually remember what they looked like. What I do know is that I didn’t really pay a whole lot of attention to Luichiny after that, which is a bit of a shame, because it means I’ve been missing out on shoes like these cute little blue wedges, which come in a gorgeous shade of cobalt, with the super-high wedge making them very “now”. Oh, and they’re only $89.99, too.
Lesson learned: never again will I judge a brand by one pair of shoes!
A Valentino-esque bow with an almost Tiffany-blue upper? Well, I don’t mind if I do…
These shoes scream “Easter” to me, and, more specifically, “Easter eggs”. I guess that’s possibly a bit of an odd connection, but something about the colour and the bows really reminds me of chocolate eggs… and now I REALLY want some chocolate eggs, so let’s move on from that idea, shall we?
We don’t really celebrate Easter in our house (other than with the eating of vast quantities of chocolate, that is. Whoops, so much for not talking about it!) so there’s not much call to get dressed up for it. That’s never stopped me before, however, and I can see these shoes as part of the perfect Easter outfit: they’d look fabulous with most pastels, and have a very “ladylike” feel about them, which would make me want to add a cute little hat and maybe some gloves, too. Over the top? Maybe. But awesome, all the same…
These are also available in black, but really, where’s the fun in that?
OK, I think I’m just going to have to re-name myself “Striperwoman” here. Is that OK with everyone?
Look, it’s not really my fault. Well, OK, it IS my fault. But am I slightly less to blame than I usually am for showing you lots of pairs of stripey shoes. You see, fashion seems to be going through one of those stages at the moment where it has aligned perfectly with my own personal tastes. The stores are just FULL of stripes, polka dots and the colour green. It is TORTURE for me, seriously. I mean, I know stripes and polka dots are always around in some form or another, and green has been quite prevalent too over the past couple of seasons, but at the moment I feel like I can’t visit a retail website without adding about 10 more items to my Wish List: or to my “To Be Blogged” list at the very least.
Which brings me to these River Island sandals. They have stripes. They have a bow. I wish they didn’t have a raffia platform, but they do, and I will live with it. They have a red twin, which…
…I really don’t like at all, actually.
The blue version, however: the blue version I would happily wear, even although there’s a good chance they’d made my ankles look like tree trunks. I think I’ll put that theory to the test next time I’m in River Island…
If you want to put it to the test RIGHT NOW, however, they’re £65, and you can click here to buy them.
And just in case you don’t believe me that fashion is deliberately trying to taunt me right now:
As you may have gathered from my recent posts about them, I’ve been spending a bit of time browsing the Very.co.uk website this month, and wondering why it is that I always seem to forget about it when I’m looking for interesting shoes or clothes to blog about? The shoes shown above aren’t the most interesting pair in the world – even I sometimes think a shoe can have too many bows for its own good – but they are only £24 in the sale, so I thought I’d show you them anyway (even although you may well resent me for it when you discover that there aren’t a lot of sizes left: sorry.)
These are from Very’s Holly Willoughby range, and you can click here to buy them. Also from the Holly Willoughby range, and completely unrelated to the world of shoes, is this dress:
I know a lot of people hate grey, but l’m not one of them! This is £39 here.
There are four words in the description of these shoes that made them guaranteed to appear on Shoeperwoman.com sooner or later. Those words are: Valentino, red, bow, studs. Any one of those on their own would be enough to make me take a second look, but put them all together, and what do you get? Well, you get these shoes, of course! They’re actually pretty understated for studded shoes, but that’s no bad thing when it comes to shoes you’ll wear until they fall apart. And pay $845 for.
These are the kind of shoes I always feel like I shouldn’t like quite as much as I do: they’re unashamedly glitzy and girly, and every time I look at them, the word “disco” pops into my head, and won’t get back out.
Still, I DO like them: they’re very typical of Miss KG, who’ve released a few variations of this kind of style in the past, and they’d be fabulous on a night out, with the ubiquitous little black dress, or, indeed, any other kind of dress, or pants, or skirt, or … you get the idea: they’re gold and black, there won’t be too many things you won’t be able to wear them with, if you really want to.
Like them? They’re called ‘Patsy’, and they’re £80: click here to buy a pair.
