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For reals, man--these are super cute. And while they don't cradle your arches or provide stellar shock support (or bring you pina coladas on warm days), at least they don't render your delicate tootsies in twain with wicked five-inch heels, which Fendi has totally been known to do. And who knows? They're so lovely they might encourage someone else to bring you a pina colada on a warm day, which is really all you can hope for in the first place. I mean, they're shoes.

Again! More! More! Black patent + corkly business + peeptoe + ankle strap + inimitable marc jacobs. Call it a day, y'all!

I'm so in love with the idea of grass-green patent leather shoes. It's the sort of thing that's very playful, but rooted in its own adulthood if for no other reason that it's too sophisticated for a child.

Again with the white patent, again with the Roberto del Carlo Spring 2008 collection. What can I say? I'm a creature of habit. Bonus points to RdC for bringing me full circle, back into the season of rebirth and baby animals and whatnot, with the grey suede and white patent combo. I was digging the suede + patent in darker colors over the winter--he must've known.

Clergerie has a similar style for spring '08, with the medium-height suede wedge with strappy business on the front--and I'm all over both of them, at least. I think RdC is super at designing simple shoes that are still quite striking. I mean, I'd wear about a hundred pairs of these before most of the drek that steve-o madden comes up with (that he doesn't blatantly steal from louboutin, that is).

Yeah, I know--but these are black. And not so asymmetrical. I'm all about the blocky shoes, I think permanently.

Seafoam Java! Hotchy mama.

Crazy! these are totes bonkers. But...I do love that twee pointed toe and the low cut vamp and the ankle strap. It's like what Herman Munster would wear to dress in drag, and who couldn't love that?

Every time I see little strips of leather twisted one-half turn and secured at both ends, I always think of this pair of hot-pink-and-black L.A. Gears I had when I was in elementary school. This is a pretty far cry from those sneaks, but I guess it's nice to know I still draw some corollaries to my ten-year-old self now that I'm all up in my late twenties.

I'm not a huge UO kind of gal, but I am so all over this petite wooden wedge this season. And these are black and they're also, like, a few hundred dollars cheaper than those lovely loeffler randalls. Just sayin'.