Faith’s orange ‘Lucy’ slingback sandals
This is about the fourth pair of orange shoes I’ve spotted in the past week alone, which makes me think orange is probably going to be a big colour for this summer. I’ve surprised myself by liking almost all of them so far, but these ‘Lucy’ slingbacks from Faith aren’t going onto my wish list. Without the crystals, they just might have made it: they have a lovely shape, and as I said, I’m fairly digging the ol’ orange right now, but embellishments like this always look really cheap to me, and these in particular have a bit of a “DIY” look to them, as if the shoe didn’t originally look like that, and someone just came along and stuck on the “jewels” for a joke. It’s a shame, because they’d have been rather lovely without them.
If you think they’re fine just as they are, these are £70, are also available in silver, and you can buy a pair here.
After the over-the-top wonder of the Brian Atwood shoes I showed you earlier today, here’s something a little more restrained, but still lovely.
Let’s face it, there’s not really all that much you can do to a humble, bow-front slingback to make it seem like a fresh and original concept. I still think Ted Baker deserves some Brownie points for this one, though, although most of those points have been awarded for the particularly nice job on the bow. I really like the pink and purple version of this shoe, with its extravagant looking bow: the black, however, would also make a nice, slightly more sensible looking evening shoe.
