Don’t mind if I do.
the dr. marten boot is most definitely back!
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This weekend saw the completion of a long overdue project and we’re so, so, so excited to show it to you guys, but first a little back story.
There are a handful of things in this world that I can truly not live without, aside from the normal stuff, like my friends and family, of course. I’m talking about non-essential desires that make you happy, like a $300 bottle of champagne, a weekly pedicure or an annual trip to the spa with your best girlfriends. For me, my splurge; my non-essential ESSENTIAL is shoes. I {LOVE} shoes and not just in a way that almost any female loves shoes {I mean, I write a blog about them}, but in a way that it’s an almost uncontrollable obsession. When it comes to shoes, my self-control goes flying out the window.
Let’s just say that I’m an avid collector of the things that we put on our feet. And, like most collections, they tend to permeate your life. While living, quite literally in a shoebox in NY, I had to get very creative with my shoe storage: under beds, in ovens, hanging and stacked behind doors and even sitting on windowsills
…until one day it hit me. Why not display my collection of shoes the same way I do my books!!??! And so was born the shoe wall!
Now that I live in California and my box is more suited for thigh-high boots, my shoe wall isn’t necessarily necessary…but I still enjoy showing off the shoes. They’re a part of my life. They tell the story of who I am; where I’ve been, and where I’m going. And let’s be honest, even a 3-bedroom house doesn’t have enough storage for this girls shoe collection.
And so, after months and months of unnecessary absence, my shoe wall is back. Isn’t she pretty? Just like that, all is right in the world once again.
What you need:
- Elfa Easy hang components
- Elfa shelves
- Hammer
- Screwdriver
- Screws
- Shoe boxes
look for less: balenciaga cutout bootie
Our hunt for the perfect pair of biker boots began in the fall. That was all we wanted, all we searched for; the absolute only thing that mattered. It monopolized our daily web searches and our weekend shopping trips. But, as is often the case, when you look for something you can’t find it, but when you’re not looking for it, if falls brilliantly into your lap.
I never stopped looking…
…I never found the perfect fall biker boot. Now, it’s spring and as I pull out my sandals and prep my toes for more revealing footwear, I’m left bereft of the fact that I never found the perfect pair of biker boots for my winter wardrobe.
And then while scouring my normal shoe haunts {I was actually shoe stalking Nicole Richie 
} I was reintroduced to these these cut-out booties from Balenciaga. Done right, these boots can actually work across multiple seasons. I’m nowhere near solvent enough to spend $1,200 on a pair of shoes {hey a girl can dream}, but luckily with designers like Jeffrey Campbell creating looks for less, the foot fetishes of frugal fashionsitas can be realized as well.
The JC edition is a bit more pricey than other options, but here are a few others for the Balenciaga cut-out bootie for less. Anyone own the original Balenciaga or knock-off versions. We’d love to see your looks! Share with us on Facebook or tweet @theshoedish with the #hashtag #shoelicious so we can see how you strut your stuff!!
jumping puddles: classic hunter rain boots
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So, one thing that’s changed since we moved to the west coast is the weather. We’re living in the north, so we’re not talking year-round fun in the sun, bet there’s certainly a temperature difference in the winter months as compared the NY arctic. Wool coats, fur hats and gloves have been replaced by layers and windbreakers. The one thing that hasn’t changed is the torrential rains. In New York there wasn’t a ton of rain, but when it did rain, it meant it. San Francisco is very much the same. The first four months after I moved here (June – August) it didn’t rain once. Not. One. Single. Drop. No exaggeration.
Now, the rain won’t stop. My east coast winter snows have been replaced by west coast monsoons. We are not fans.
We are fans of these classic Hunter Original Rain Boots, though. These are now my very, very, very best friends!
tgif from YSL!
For no other reason, but it’s Friday and they’re Yves Saint Laurent!
TGIF my little shoe fiends! Have a fabulously sassy shoetabulous weekend!
twinkle toes: holiday footwear
It’s that time of year again. Time to get glittery, gold and shiny for the holiday season. We’re pretty convinced that glitter, sequins and mirror-like shine goes with just about anything, just about anytime, but the winter holidays beg for twinkle even more than the rest.
Don’t agree with me? Fine, be a boring old stale sterile scrooge ?
For the rest of you, here’s my favorite glitter-laden shoe, Kate Spade New York Krysta, for your holiday twinkle toes!
models fall on runway, give stilettos a bad rap
Shoedish was woman obsessed this week with all things designer designer; attaching ourselves to all the photos emerging from the Spring/Summer 2009 fashion shows and trying to defend our stiletto turf. It seems, my shoe fiends and stiletto queens, that stilettos have been getting a bad rap this year as designers create styles that are so high that even professional models can’t walk in them without falling. It all started with a few missteps and stumbles at the Prada show, but now every newspaper and fashion media blog has picked up on the woes of the heel. Everyone knows that wearing a stiletto isn’t natural for the foot, but women have long been suffering in the name of high fashion. Where exactly do they think the name “fainting couch” came from. I’m almost positive that tightlacing in body modification is much more dangerous than the chronic wearing of high heels. Let’s refocus our attention on how pretty they are and not what they do to our bunions.
*Pictured here are a pair of stiletto platforms from the Spring/Summer 2009 Prada show; the show that made a model fall on her bum.
