Just got feet, don't got SHOES

I think they're "kooky", but then I like the red ones upthread with a PINWHEEL on the toe.

see, for me they're pretty staid! reasonable.

but attractive

I wish my new shoes would hurry up and get here.

Oh also: THANK YOU. Your guidance was crucial. I would have worn shoes without your help but they would not be nearly as fantastic. A+++ shoe advice itt, especially Laurel.

Any time, of course. That was fun.

that dress is adorable!
chiming in late, but i think it requires fun shoes with a short heel - and there seem to be many recommendations here! the shoe wavelength, we are on it

i think the tulip-shaped scallop on the heel of that last pair is super duper cute fwiw!

hello, my name is Mandee and I have a shoe addiction

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo-1.jpg
These are my shoes today. They are probably my favorite pair! I got them from a thrift shop about 6 months ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo1-1.jpg
See those green bins? Yeah, there are five of them. When I moved into my house last December, ALL of my shoes fit into those bins underneath the bench in the front entryway. Now the shoes have begun to INFEST THE REST OF THE HOUSE. They no longer all fit in the bins.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo3-1.jpg
THEY ARE TAKING OVER MY LIFE

haha omg, but they're all so cute!

I got my shoes!!! They are even more excellent in person than in the link (and the red is a lot more subtle - it's really quite lovely). And I am totally afraid to say this out loud for fear of jinxing everything in my life ever, but they are actually quite comfortable, too! I might even wear these to work one day. What?!?!?! Yeah!

(I'll post pics of them in action when it's not the end of the day and my feet are not all swole.)

Yay! It's funny, one of my most comfortable pairs of heels are similar to this:
http://www.unitednude.com/upload/productimages/264/photo-0000.jpg

but you wouldn't think it to look at. Yet I've got flats that rub like hell. I kind of don't buy shoes online any more because you can't predict how they'll feel on.

That's… kind of crazy, those shoes.

I have to buy online. Nobody sells my size in stores. ;_;

Well, no, I can think of two stores that potentially sell my size but they are hit or miss, style-wise.

Are you an 11 too Jenny? Is sad world for us! :(

Yes! 11 WIDE, even. I used to wear a 10 regular but my feet got bigger in the last five years or so.

Oh man guys that sucks. I wear a 10 and it's pretty bad but I know 11 is worse just from looking at selections. :( Weirdly though I've been fitting 9.5s in some shoes lately. idk. Anyway I was in an Office store in London once and asked to see the most excellent pair of mary janes I've ever found in my size and the fucking asshole of a sales clerk looked at me and said, in the most snotty voice imaginable, "We don't even make that size".

Argh, kill kill! I hate snotty clerks. Like, there is NOTHING I can do to change my shoe size, don't judge me! Jenny.. you've scared me. I hope that mine don't get too much bigger!

I had bunions and then I had bunion surgery but I also have tailor's bunions so between the bone deformities and the hardware in my feet to correct the bone deformities, it's a wonder they aren't the size of loaves of Wonderbread. So don't worry!!! Unless you are full of bunions.

ENBB that clerk is the worst! What a snot. I got a similar "We don't carry ANY shoes in wide!" pile of snot from a clerk at one of those shoe stores that carry Danskos and Naots and Merril and whatnot. I mean, fuck you!

Jenny I got a new pair of Culture Phit mary janes for my cumpleaños and I wanted to see if you have been enjoying those red ones you got for the wedding. Mine are shockingly soft/pliable/comfortable/cute. Kind of pleased that I can wear heels on a more regular basis if I just get fancy padded comfort heels!!

http://a2.zassets.com/images/z/1/3/1/1310462-p-DETAILED.jpg

they're kind of dull, tbh, but they're going to be my everyday go-with-everything shoes, so they can't be too splashy.

Whoa! I am wearing them today for the first time (I'm attending a benefit event tonight as L3slie's date so I thought I should put a little effort into it) so this is timely!

I can't walk in heels at all so it's kind of a challenge, frankly, but they are comfortable in that nothing is pinching or binding or rubbing. I just need to practice not looking like a lumbering beast. (also why I'm wearing them as I don't want wedding attendees to be like "great ceremony, but why did you have a clumsy rhinoceros perform it?)

I have contemplating additional purchases from this company.

does I Love Style have a men's pants/"trousers" thread. I may need some help

Wow a clumsy rhinoceros typed that post with her rhinoceros thumbs, that's for sure.

Xp the Bonobos pants thread is kind of the ad hoc men's pants thread, sometimes.

xp - I really like the ones I bought -- they're solid, attractive, and totally padded in the sole (waaay more so than any other heel I've ever worn). Let's see if I can wear them two days in a row without pain, but outlook is positive so far.

I think there is a trousers thread...not sure what it's called though?

hey metallic rip-off version of the prada shoes everyone here (except me) hated! love these too

http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj379/philtwo/asosprada.jpg

http://us.asos.com/ASOS-ASOS-MONROE-Platform-Creeper-Shoes/wm10a/?iid=1702640&mporgp=L0FTT1MvQVNPUy1NT05ST0UtUGxhdGZvcm0tQ3JlZXBlci1TaG9lcy9Qcm9kLw..

got these recently!

http://www.openingceremony.us/pimg/pop_39117_2.jpg

^^ those are rad!!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/uglysandalscherries.jpg

Your dn is hilarious.

Mister Freedom Road Champ engineer boots - ridic expensive and they don't exist in my size, but other than that I love them
http://www.misterfreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Road-Champ-group-web.jpg

I LIKE those rip-off Prada shoes!

Found my shoes, on sale for ridiculously low price at saucony.com ($26):

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/sauconyjazz.jpg

I love the color!

The zip's gone on my leather ankle-high boots that I wear to work. Got em from Schuh in London just over a year ago - how frustrating! Anyone know whether it's better to get them fixed or whether I should just buy new ones. They cost about £80 I think. If I buy new ones, can anyone recommend a good retailer, perhaps online that would sell me some smart/casual footwear that won't break or need replacing in a year's time? I get the impression Schuh are money for old rope. I'm not that rich, but I'd like to invest in something that'll last.

ANSWER ME!!

(please?)

Do you particularly like these boots? I would probably take them to a cobbler and see if they are even fixable. They might not be. Then get a price estimate and determine whether that's a better deal for you. £80 would be enough for me to seriously explore repair.

I can't really recommend other shoes as this is not my area of expertise.

yeah - I'll ask a cobblers, but I'm sure last time something like this happened they said it would take 2 weeks and they'd have to import fancy zips from Lucitania that cost £50 or some shite. I've been recommended H by Hudson by a colleague.

That would be some shite. Have them put in other, sturdier (and hopefully cheaper) zippers, since these ones apparently keep breaking.

i need new boots. considering some red wing iron rangers, or something similar.

― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

also considering these. any strong opinions out there???

i never got those boots! but i still think i want them.

yeah they are expensive! but a good pair should last at least 3 years right?

these little dieppa restrepo gems are on route to me!! eee!!

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=24124651

Do they come in silver?? I might have those!

I don't think so :(
or at least not at Maryam Nassir Zadeh

I 'went for it' and got the iron rangers. surprisingly comfortable - from everything I read I thought I would have had to compression bandage my ankles for two weeks. now I am never going to buy shoes ever again

awesome! i want tough well-made shoes/boots like that too right now

Those are good looking boots.

they really are.

i think i'm gonna break down and finally buy a pair of rubber boots, possibly Boggs?, i mean, they're just really practical for mucking around farms and fields and forests and places i seem to be finding myself in a lot (and destroying shoes in)

aw thanks guys! they just ~feel~ really well made, the smell of full-grain leather is so intoxicating (yes I am losing a million veg points for saying that). wanted to get them in oro russet but I think that was a limited edition color run so I got them in 'amber' (deep brown) instead.

robyn maybe get some bean boots for mucking around in?