I thought these shoes would be particularly appropriate today, because they’re in a lovely, duck-egg blue colour, and it’s almost Easter. (Easter, egg, geddit?) They also come with a tan suede upper but, well, it would”ve been harder for me to make a bad Easter egg joke if I’d shown you the tan ones, and I also happen to like the version shown above a whole lot better. In fact, I like them rather a lot: the colour is one of my favourite, and while the fabric part of the upper would mean that these would be of limited use here at Shoeper Towers, where the ground is almost always muddy from the rain, they’d be pretty sweet on holiday, or on a rare dry day.
These are £24.99 from New Look: click here to buy a pair.
I’m going to do this post back-to-front, and show you the heels of these shoes first:
Well, that we enough to convince me to take a closer look, so what about the front?
Purple is one of my favourite colours, so the front view gets the Shoeper Seal of Approval too: I really like the two-tone – sorry, colourblock - effect, and think these would make a very pretty pair of dress shoes, great for something like a wedding or other special event.
One part of me loves these shoes for their two-tone upper (and in two of my favourite “tones”, too!), the t-bar fastening, and just for being a relatively simple shoe that manages to look totally unique.
The other part of me, well, hates them, and really doesn’t think they look like an $800 shoe.
I’ve no idea which part will win. Tell me how YOU feel about them instead?
I never thought I’d find myself admiring a pair of white, pointy-toed stilettos, and yet somehow here I am admiring these ones. Not in an “I’d buy and wear them,” kind of way, you understand, but more in a “If Carrie Bradshaw wore them, I’d probably love them.”
I do love the red flash on the heel, though, and these are the kind of shoes that jumped out of me as I scrolled through the Net-a-Porter “New In” page. What do you think of them?
Due to some strange kind of optical illusion that takes place when I look at these shoes, I spend the first second of any glance at them thinking the toe is completely square. In fact, they’re doing it now when I look at them.
Of course, they’re not square: it’s a classic almond shape, with a concealed platform, but the real stand-out feature of these shoes is the two-tone upper, which is always guaranteed to grab my attention, as is the toe-cap itself. Put it all together and you get a very sophisticated looking shoe, which could work with so many outfits, and never really go out of style.
The contrast of white and another, brighter colour, always says “summer” to me: and also “sports” for some reason.
These Miu Miu sandals are far from sporty, but imagine them with something like a white tennis dress, worn while sipping Pimms on the lawn on a sunny afternoon. Perfect!
These are £325: click here to buy them from Net-a-Porter.
You can tell Spring is in the air, can’t you? So many shoes are turning up on my radar in the brightest of bright colours, and I couldn’t be happier about it!
These ones are from Karen Millen, who I haven’t featured recently, but who’ve just released a Spring/Summer collection full of shoeper goodness! These particular shoes are £140, and I love the combination of pink and purple: click here to buy them.
I was gutted when Faith went into administration last year, so it’s good to see the brand lives on, albeit in a reduced form, through the concessions in Debenhams, which is where I found these ‘Candy’ court shoes. These have that very dapper look about them that a toe-cap shoe always seems to create, and while I’m always a sucker for black (or in this case, pale pink) and white, I also really like the coral version of these too, which offers a slightly more unusual take on the toe-cap trend, and has me thinking of summer. (Not that I’m not always thinking of summer, you understand…)
