New Shoes.

but 39.99 is reasonable! you should get them, since I can't.

shit.

xpost I know. I often get influenced by the percentage-off number, and not the actual price actually. More so with clothes than with shoes but I tend to hang onto clothes a lot longer than shoes so I justify it to myself, yet still I'm sitting here like "Why DID I buy those thigh high stiletto boots again?"

XP: yeah but you have to take care of shoes! I mean, you don't HAVE to in which case yeah, keep buying ones you won't miss and everyone's happy. But I like finding that $200 pair of Italian boots for $20 (TRUE STORY) at DSW and even over the LIFE of the pair of shoes I probably won't pay the orig price for re-heeling/re-soleing/polishes. And the construction is gorgeous. It's just a terrible idea for "event" shoes cos you never know what you'll find or when.

YUMMY. Okay, $240 worth of yummy.

In terms of the rest of your post, if you find things like that then yeah totally do it and totally take care of them! What I'm talking about, basically, is shoes that the LIFE of them, for me, is going to be a year, max (and even then yeah, I often have the same thing Lauren mentions, the expensive pair gets jacked and then the cheapy replacement I buy out of necessity for rest-of-season holds up), I just...dunno. I'm nowhere near (meaning metro-able as I don't have a car) a DSW, btw, that I know of, so my only current outlet (ha ha ha etc) is the internet which is surprisingly kind of crap for this kind of thing. :(

Anyway my credit card was saved for another day as the two shoes I wanted on Nine West did not come in my size.

and that is a very sad story about boots :(

those easy spirits are crazy!

http://www.easyspirit.com/s?namespace=catalog&origin=viewall_category.jsp&event=p.shoe&pid=11771&cid=45001

http://www.payless.com/Images/thumb/047072_thumb.gif

ugh.

Maybe not, but there are two or three other boot styles? Perhaps none of them are right but worth a try? http://www.easyspirit.com/s?namespace=catalog&origin=viewall_category.jsp&event=pg.shoe&cid=45001&viewall=yes

i have a fucking hell of a time finding shoes i like. seriously, i have three pairs of shoes right now and they are all cheap crap that are wearing out. i have this crazy theory that every pair of shoes makes me look fat. which seems a little weird. BUT I SWEAR.. ITS TRUE.

http://www.zappos.com/images/718/7186363/827-180125-d.jpg

they're $210...

(Ally darling, I know -- or I could have guessed because I know other people with the slender little gams. I'm sorry for your boot suffering as well as my own.)

i mean, that plus world peace.

nein danke.

I've kind of gotten used to it, having to occasionally wear boots that look too big, like a little kid in their parents clothes. The other way is worse, I think. What I don't understand is why they don't make boots with shafts in various sizes. They can make the foot part itself various sizes so why don't they offer narrow, medium, and wide for the top? Does anyone do this? It seems weird to assume that because someone has a size 7 foot, they have smaller calves than someone with a size 11 foot.

I am very much not a roman sandal type.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/sevigny2.gif

I have actually not checked Zappos but I am loading it right now!

http://www.zappos.com/images/722/7223426/827-272212-p.jpg

that's totally true about the big-name designers designing shoes on the narrow. it sucks.

(i am enjoying this group shoeshopping thread)

I treated myself to some Marc Jacobs ballet flats this evening on the way home from work BECAUSE I FELT LIKE IT, OK?

Oh, they're divine but I don't know how to post pictures (probably a good thing).

things i have learned today:
i really want blue wedge sandals.

http://www.zappos.com/images/723/7238974/985-256496-p.jpg or http://www.zappos.com/images/723/7238970/1733-256487-p.jpg or http://www.zappos.com/images/720/7206699/3034-206144-p.jpg or http://www.zappos.com/images/782/7159782/985-133114-p.jpg