Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boots, dear god why, faaaabulous, fashion, filthy capitalist desires, shoes
I have a thing for shoes that I don’t tend to indulge due to having finicky feet, a limited budget, limited opportunity or excuse to wear anything beyond my basic boots (currently a lucky like-new Goodwill find of 16-eye double-zip Docs while I attempt to repair my Corcorans and hopefully paint them pink) and this thing about not wanting to have a lot of crap, even if it’s superfabulous crap. My recent addiction to Shoewawa is probably a sign of at least a limited opening up to at least exploring this love of mine. H is not helping; they’ve been getting full-fledged back into fashion, and I’m loving flipping through the magazines, despite all the diet-cookie-cutter models with grumpy SoHip (TM) frowns.
But Shoewawa i found, unsurprisingly enough, while on a search for boots, fabulous boots. For me fabulous tends to mean either Victorian-influenced or obscenely flashy, and since I was in the mood for the latter in particular I googled “ugly boots”. Other than a kajillion results for Uggs, which have never really been my style but I love how some people pull them off (perhaps if I found some in hot pink?), there were a number of good results, including the aforementioned new addiction. That said, it’s their Ugly Shoes section that wins it for me; where the rest of the blog is either for basic classics (who cares?) or atrocities like this:
The ugly shoe section has amazing things like this:
Okay, that section’s got some atrocities as well. But I’m way biased: give me over-the-top, trashy, glamtastic, too-much-glitter boots anyday. Not that I’ll wear them everyday, but, you know, I’d look at ‘em. Willingly.
