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Don't get me wrong! Sometimes I dream about this weird discount shoe place somewhere in L.A. where all the stuff I've lusted after for the last eight months is marked down to like $90 plus it's in a euro 40, and these improbable ankle-butchering cuties will no doubt make a cameo appearance the next time I eat too much ice cream before I hit the hay and am all preoccupied in my snooze. But that is one gargantuan heel. And $830 is, you know, a lot of dough. Sam Edelman has a more or less true-to-feeling knockoff at zapp's for an even c-note. In different colorways natch.

I love this take on a open-weave oxford-pump, sort of like the style from the '30s but oh so much sleeker. The black patent with the slender, wood-toned stacked heel is all about being dark in the warm summer sun, but the contrast and vintage flair will give you too much personality to sift into the background.

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.

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

Good gravy! This green patent thing is everywhere all of a sudden. This is definitely a dressier take, and while I wouldn't necessarily shy away from buying* them for my own two tootsies, I wouldn't be able to hoof it to work in them everyday (or, like, ever). But they are awful pretty. *I'm talking at a majorly reduced, ebay-gold-ribbon-winner-purchase kind of way, not for $600. Heavens no!

I am a fan of the contrast, in general: yin to yang, black to white, steamed vegetables to chocolate cake--and the glossy black patent with the cork heel gets added to the list, now. I love this.

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.

Again with the bubble gum pink--and I'm digging it here, too. Fun-time colors for the patent leather this spring, and if you're afraid that some design element (the black shiny button at the vamp, the extra-wide crisscross, the heel with the embedded speech bubble) might push it over the top? Just wear it with a demure black gothy summery dress, and you are set.

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.

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.