As I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently, this year I’ve been on a bit of a mission to increase my collection of flats. Because I don’t wear them all that often, though (And tend to be pretty hard on them when I do), I’m generally too mean to want to spend much cash on flats, so when I found these ones in Asda last week, for just £7 per pair, I knew at least one pair would be coming home with me.
As it turned out, two pairs ended up coming home with me – one green, one black – but it could’ve been so much worse than that, because they had these in a bunch of other colours, too, including red and blue patent versions, both of which were rather nice. They had the black version with a patent upper too, but I decided to go with the matte finish, because they were a little more stretchy, and therefore more comfortable.
Last week also saw the arrival of these little gold flats into my shoe closet:
These were a gift from my parents, and are in a great, go-with-anything goldy-bronze colour, which should prove really versatile.
Now, I’m in two minds whether or not to include these shoes in my Shoe Challenge total. Because I only ever really wear flats for convenience (i.e. I’ll wear them around the house, or if I have to run out on a quick errand, or do a lot of walking for some reason, but I don’t ever create outfits around them), and tend to wear them out quite quickly, I never really see them as permanent members of my shoe collection. I did include a couple of pairs this year, though, so maybe I’ll include these ones too: the jury’s still out!
So nice! And green, so sweet! Well… include… this is my opinion… I would include!
I have three pairs of those George flats – red patent, purple patent and grey animal print. They are really comfortable and great vaule although the price appears to have crept up slightly from the £6 I paid last year but still a great bargain! I’m sure I got the purple ones for £3 in the sale after Christmas.
Cute bargain flats!! I’m also in the opinion to non include flats (all about the only “dressy” one, in my case :D) in S.S.Challege, because…really, the most times my outfit with flas are so boring..jeans-monocolor turtleneck-flats…:P
(the green ones are in my mind, now…*_*)
Yeah, this is exactly the thing – I only ever wear them with super-casual, really boring outfits (or as slippers around the house), so I just think it would be quite boring to include them. Plus, I’ll probably have wrecked them by next February anyway, which means there wouldn’t be much point in saving them!
I’m including my flats in my shoe challenge because I have so many and I’m not sure I wear them all…but if you wear flats as flip-flops, then I’d say don’t bother putting them in the challenge. It’s mostly about the challenging shoes anyway, right?
I like the green ones!
I would include them in the challenge. As you say, you hardly ever wear flats, so maybe it’s the opportunity to challenge yourself and wear flats with a not so casual outfit, just for a change 🙂
Include them in the challenge! I’d love to see how you wear them and it might help me embrace my pumps that little bit more xx
I would include them, like other people have said you can challenge yourself to create differnt- not so casual looks.
i have the red ptent shoes in the same style and the black ones too, which i use for school because they are SO much better than the usual clunky Clarks ones!
Oh I love the green ones! I’ve been looking for a pair of shoes in that exact colour. No ASDA here though so my search will continue. I would include them in the challenge for variety. It will make precarious wall posing a tad easier too :o)
Love the bronzy-goldy ones! I can understand the point of not including them in your challenge.
I think they’re adorable, and I’d vote to include them in the shoe challenge too. If they were purely utilitarian (like running shoes), you wouldn’t have bought 3 pairs. 😉
The green ones are so cute, I gotta keep my eyes peeled for them at Wal-Mart as I believe they sell George, too.