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major xpost, but re: roman sandals:
They have to be done right and be in the right colour b/c they can so easily look really cheap. But I'm kind of into them. I've been watching Rome though, so I also want to dress in gauzy drapery and wear really big jewelery these days.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I really really don't like stretchy boots. And I do love ridiculous paratrooper boots for actual snow and shit-kicking but lace-ups are not for dress-up in my world. I know, I know...none of the options are good.

(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.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

There are some YSL semi-wedge heels and they are my overwhelming iirrational shoe need, for £400. No way.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

custom-made everything = one of my DREAMS.

i mean, that plus world peace.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen really nice Roman sandals, but the pair I posted seem to go overboard in a characteristic way, which is just ugly.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://altura.speedera.net/ccimg.catalogcity.com/200000/208100/208170/products/thumb4192291.jpg

nein danke.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm just anti-sandal, i think.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

heh. or the pair Chloe Sevigny is wearing here, which, I mean, what?

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

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

there are wide-shaft (dirty!) boots, but they are often in a different, uglier style than regular ones, for some reason. I believe there are special narrow ones, too; have you checked Zappos, Ally?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

What the hell is that girl ever wearing on her body.

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

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

oh noes, cuet!!!

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

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Ally, I know -- I wear like a 7 in the foot but I apparently I have the calves that ate Tokyo or something. I mean, what?? They don't SEEM that big! It's muscle, because I DO STUFF, okay! Jesus. The most annoying part is that, with certain exceptions, the more rarified and chi-chi the designer/house, the narrower or skinnier things will be. For instance, Charles David and Anne Klein make shoes on a WAY NARROWER last than, say, Aerosoles, as if not being long and narrow is "common" and eating is for peasants.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

that Sevigny photo needs to be sent to GoFugYourself on the double.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah actually when I think "enormous legs" you aren't exactly the first person I think of, wtf? now I have this image in my mind of magic boots that shrink and expand on cue, to fuck with the tryer-oner.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the anthrolopogie site has tons of sandals so cute I want to eat them. Some are even sort of Roman in concept and I DON'T CARE I WANT THEM.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Wide calf boot site. I got a great pair of Blondo's last winter. She gives the calf circumference measurements for the different shoe sizes.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

heh. milo, I bit it from GoFugYourself.

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

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, I've had to stop looking at Anthropologie shoes. so beautiful, so, like a million dollars a pair. I covet.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ohmygod i want these
http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/Anthropologie/640035_frt?$main220x340$

(i am enjoying this group shoeshopping thread)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

God, I just love this 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).

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally missed those red peep-toe wedges Ally posted upthread. that's the shoe I want. I mean, there are, like, fifty shoes I want, but those wedges are at the top of the list.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

They are stunning. I'm too lazy to read this thread (just gasping at the pictures) - where are the red ones from?

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, those are totally great.

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

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

ok let's have a vote, I need a pair of red shoes to go with two dresses I purchased recently:

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

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa life size shoes

I think the red peep toes are BCBG, unless you mean the 9 West ones.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

sigh. the Anthropologie shoes I currently long for:

http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/Anthropologie/64227_frt?$main220x340$
the color!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

top pair

xpost

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the ankle strap ones, Ally, but you really can't go wrong with any of them. red shoes!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

ok those were the ones I was leaning towards :)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Well. It's impossible to tell without knowing what the dress looks like, stylistically, but I say buy the top pair, hands down. I hate the obviously plastic-y sole on the woven pair, I like the white top-stitching on pair #3 but overall they're too "Easter Sunday in East Grand Rapids"for me, and pair #4 seem awfully Euro, somehow. Maybe it's the really high vamp? I am partial to toe-cleavage and low-cut shoes. And I can't help feeling like that burnt red color is a few years old and you need something fresher for spring/summer. So rule out #4.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Definitely the red ankle-strap with the peep-toe and cream piping. They look comfortable too.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the woven ones would be so great with a wooden wedge. it's sad really :(
and with red stitching, the low heeled ones would be so great too.
i agree with L about the last pair too.
oh, shoes...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I really liked the woven ones but the wedge is wrong, you guys are right, that was my misgiving about it too. The third pair I probably would've never purchased cos I never wear heels that low. I kind of like the shape of the 4th pair but see what you mean about the color (plus it'd kind of be the wrong shade of red anyway).

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

can anyone help me identify the style names for these adidas?
http://imgs.yoox.com/44/440443511D_2.jpg

I WANT!

― bell labs (bell_labs), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the heel in question, there are many combinations but for longevity's sake something in black. DROOL.

http://show.myfashions.org/img/paris/2006/Yves_Saint_Laurent/shoes/001mf.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

that heel looks like it should be shouting "exterminate! exterminate!"
i like it.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

that's beautiful in the gold, suzy. are you sure you couldn't get a lot of use out of it in that color?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen those! I like that it's so seamless looking, there's no visible stitching or fastening or complication -- it's sort a proto-shoe.

Also, those green patent slingbacks up above are ROWR.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

*sort OF, obv

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen about 10 different versions of the shoe with the heel, and I want a black one where my toes don't show. Yeah it may be £400 - I cannot believe that I am considering this but what the hey, there are upcoming HS reunion issues to be dealing with - I do believe that I can get one discount from work. Or a lend. The new fash ed is a BIG shoe girl.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, now that someone's called us out for being assholes in this thread, I need to post at least fifty more times.

much more affordable than my coveted green slingbacks:

http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/Anthropologie/640036_yel_frt?$main220x340$

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I love love those, too! Am thinking of getting them for sister's wedding cos reception & dancing are outdoors and skinny heels won't do.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

get them, Laurel! they'd be perfect for an outdoor wedding and are some of the most reasonably-priced shoes Anthropologie has ever carried, I think. what color is your dress?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i was going to post those earlier! they're awesome!
xpost

i suppose this is what i mean about roman-inspired shoes that i like. just imagine them ON.
http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/Anthropologie/640052_frt?$main220x340$

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

(who called us assholes?)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

well, I guess it's more like they called us frivolous. in the RUMPIE WORKS IN MY OFFICE thread. because, clearly, we claimed to be saving the world. that's why it's called the New Shoes thread.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

OH GAWD, Suzy, I tried to find the red patent ankle-strap pumps I linked to earlier for Ally's wedding, but the Easy Spirit stores in midtown had hardly any of the Subkoff line in stock and nothing in red. Then NO SOONER do I get back (after wearing something else entirely for the wedding) then I see one of the magazine girls in our caf wearing the very similar wedge pumps in red suede. I POUNCED on her and asked about 'em -- she said a friend at the mag got an early pair and passed them on. Damn you people! :)

The dresses are going to be hydrangea-blue linen, maybe with a slightly steely cast. I think the beigy-mustard will be a nice complement with the right pieces but I should go see the shoes in person.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha, New Shoes bring happiness ergo bring a kind of peace.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

my resolve is next time I buy shoes they will be rather expensive & I will look after them. I kinda dig some of Miss Sixty's shoes, the basic ones without lots of stupid trim and stuff. hot or not?

http://www.zappos.com/images/718/7181156/985-171201-t.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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