Shoeper Shoe Challenge #7 – Can we live through February?

saturday Shoeper Shoe Challenge #7   Can we live through February?

What: Vince Camuto cowboy boots
When: Saturday, February 20 2010
Where: A park near my house
With: black leggings (Zara), faux fur coat and longline sweater (both H&M), sunglasses (Gucci)

February is my least favourite month of the year, and although it is at least the shortest month, this year it’s felt particularly long and cold, and I just can’t wait for it to be over. The harsher-than-usual winter we’ve been having here is continuing to restrict my wardrobe choices, too: we’re still getting regular flurries of snow, and although they’re not sticking around for too long, when it’s not snowing it’s raining or sleeting, or just generally being cold and miserable, and when the weather’s like that, there’s not much for it but BOOTS.

These ones are by Vince Camuto. I picked them up in TK Maxx a few years ago: I can’t remember how much they cost, but I know it wasn’t very much, so although the toes are a little pointier than I’d like, I allowed myself to be seduced by the colour anyway!

Of course, after all of my complaining about the dark days of February, today dawned gloriously sunny, so I grabbed the opportunity to actually, you know, leave the house for once. Roll on Spring…

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Vince Camuto’s ‘Marcia’ suede rufle pumps in purple

vince camuto marcia Vince Camutos Marcia suede rufle pumps in purpleRecognise these? Yes, it’s yet ANOTHER version of the Christian Louboutin ‘Dillian’ pumps: or, as I like to think of them, “The style that just won’t die.”

These are by Vince Camuto, and I’m rather taken with the purple suede uppers. Every time I’ve ever worn my red Matalan versions of this style, though, I’ve worn them WITHOUT the ruffle, and I suspect that would probably be the case with these, too. If you think you’d get some use out of them, though, they’re $111 from Heels.com.