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Although I'm not sure if I'd actually wear these*, I do appreciate the darker color pairing busy-ness and all those buckles and the shorter heel height and the open spaces accommodated in this design. But, uhm, nix that weird buff-pink insole; what were you thinking? *You know, when shopbop somehow puts me on their freebie mailing list--'cause I'm so not about to spend eight hundred bones on some shoes, man.

I'm not entirely sure what's up with those wing-things underneath the sleevecap on the sleeves, but to be honest? It sort of doesn't matter. This mess is fan-bleeping-tastic.

So I'm all in love with Chie Mahara anyway, but these are so good they're tempting me away from my own [admittedly obsessively well defined] comfort zone. I'm not normally about such a pointy heel, but okay. And the wide vamp cut-off at the toe is too barbie-shoes for me, but what the hell! and t-straps do little (fine, they do nothing) to make my legs look less stumpy, but...but...Damn! These are super cuties.

I don't know for sure, but I think I might like this variant better than the t-bar sandal. The color, the peeptoe, the heel, the curly-q business are all big winners, so I guess you can't really go wrong with either one.

What is it with these guys? They have like a direct route to the "me likey veddy much!" section of the old brain. The curvey, the funky, the superficially bordering on the ugly--it's just so me.

The folks over at RoD must've read some stand-up slavic lit lately--and just as I can attest to the staying power of Gogol' and Pushkin, so can I say that these beauties could escalate right up to wardrobe stalwarts in my possession.

Oooh! More love from RoD! I'm all about the funk-factors here--the shapely vamp, the conical heel, the snub toe, the jagged heel counter--but I also love the black and green combo. Now if only the blasted u.s. dollar would eat its wheaties...

I like how this is slightly vintage-inspired, but still with it's pointy heels facing into the near future. It's a neat take on a mandarin collar, and the canvas makes the puffy sleeves look more like a stiff meringue than something that belongs on a precocious six-year-old. It's maybe a smidge long for a bolero, but whatever. Also: I like this better in not white, like a crazy medium-sized print (amy butler is too big, aunt grace too small).

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

Oooh! My heart is all a-flutter! I love those thick straps and that chunky platform and the cone-shaped heel?! A sugar cone treat squattened in a funhouse mirror! Woo!