May 5th
2008
The Chuck Taylor All Star Sneaker from Converse is the quintessential street kick of choice for cool guys and fly chicks…and everyone in between. This year Converse is celebrating its 100th birthday; a century of pure American originality. Converse was founded in 1908 as a rubber company making tires, boots for WWII, and even hockey pucks. In 1917, the first All Star sneaker - a performance basketball shoe - was created and the very next year Chuck Taylor brought them to the forefront of American fashion when he laced up in All Stars for basketball games and in 1930 his signature was made a permanent part of the All Star emblem . “The Chuck Taylor All Star shoe is a functional, democratic, timeless American icon of design,” says the global creative director of Converse footwear, Scott Patt. From Kurt Cobain and Snoop Dogg to The Ramones and - of course the namesake who has had his signature tagged into the label since 1930 - Chuck himself, Converse has and continues to be an icon of style for everyone.
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posted in Industry News, Kids Footwear, athletic shoes, casual shoes, men's shoes |
May 5th
2008
posted in celebrity shoe star |
May 5th
2008
We catch a lot of slack from people because we still shop at Alloy and Delia’s, but we must protest. If you still shop at Forever 21 (and you know you do) than we can still scour these pop sugar teen sites too. They’ve got some Payless-size shoe deals, after all, and we will not apologize for anything that results in a super shoe steal. These snakeskin-covered platform sandals from Alloy are a perfect example of a shoe bargain. We wouldn’t normally find the occasion to buy them, but since they cost less than a week of groceries, the possibilities seem to come stomping at us in all directions. Why not? We may not be able to justify spending $600 or even $100, but for $29.50, we can absolutely swing that.
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posted in platform heel, prints and skins, sandals, shoe sales, wedges |
May 5th
2008
Shoedish apologizes for not posting anything new on Friday, but we still wanted to get out ‘Opinions Please’ Friday post from last week off the blocks. So, here’s what we would have posted on Friday, had we posted on Friday. We haven’t formed our own opinion on these (boot-inspired?) sandals from Bakers. Boot inspired? Can a sandal really be inspired by a boot? The first time we saw them we were like, What? but now they’ve kind of grown on us. Well, we can’t very well support socks with sandals and legwarmer boots if we’re not going to stand behind Cleopatra-inspired sandal boots, can we? Maybe these footless boot sandals are like wine, blue cheese, and beer; an acquired taste. Feel free to throw stones. We can take it. Opinions? Thoughts? Tell shoedish what you think.
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posted in casual shoes, flip flops, sandals |
May 5th
2008
Last Thursday we posted shoedish’s favorite shoe from Christian Dior and received a lot of responses asking about the open-toe version available at Neiman Marcus. The link to NM was in Thursdays post, but because of the large response, we decided they deserved their own little feature. This is the open-toe version of Dior’s triple-strap mary jane for summer. You like? Yeah, we do too. This gives Mary Jane a whole new world to play in and we are in full support of her exploration. This shoe will be available in several tweaked editions, including a sandal sans platform and a couple more textures and colors of both the open-toe and closed-toe versions. We’re holding our breath!
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posted in designer shoes, mary jane, peep-toe and open-toe shoes, sandals, stiletto |
May 5th
2008
The Shoedish is coming to you live from Morocco! That’s right my shoe fiends, friends, and pets, shoedish is in Hotfes - that works better with Atlanta - and it is HOT!!! Brutally hot! We were warned by momma shoedish not to be dressing too scantily, but I don’t think it’s possible to be modestly dressed in this weather. Besides, shoedish is working on her summer tan and our slowly forming summer tan has us loving all the neon brights in summer nail polish. Shoedish is currently living in Moroccan-orange inspired nail polish from Kiko Cosmetics because orange nail polish not only looks super fun and summery against bronzed skin, but it is also the ‘It’ shade for summer polish. Rihanna rocked the 2008 Grammy Awards with neon orange nails and that’s one celebrity we’re not against copying. Orange is our new favorite nail polish color, so we did what any normal person would do and went searching for the best summerlicious shades and here’s the roundup so far. Get those peds live and in living color; summer is officially here!
Get yours: Orange Knockout from China Glaze, from their new Ink-inspired neon brights collection, Neon Orange from Morbid Makeup, Shoedish’ very own Pearly Orange from Kiko Cosmetics, Orange Punch from Orly, Nanobright Bikini from Octi, and Don’t Socra-tease Me! from O.P.I.
BTW: Posts will be itsy-bitsy - like shoedish’s Moroccan vacation clothes - for the next 4 days because internet access here is sporadic at best.
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