my ideal shoes

[cimorene]

If I had these I would love them and caress them and call them George and wear them every day that it wasn't raining or snowing or below freezing.

My love affair with red patent Mary Janes goes back to age six, I think, when I first fell hard for a style that they sold at Wal-Mart. They had short flat heels - 100% regular little girls' dress shoes, but red of course, with little tiny heart-shaped cutouts round the toes. I wore those practically every day, with every hideously mismatched outfit (because my mom let me pick them myself), and they fell apart or were outgrown. I went through three pairs in two years before they stopped carrying them, I'm sure.

Red mary janes are my ultimate perfect shoe, no lie. I wouldn't pay £55 for them, but you can read their entry at Shoewawa and check out the source, Jones bootmaker (it's British), if you like. I'm confident I'll eventually find a good pair again.

Comments

[lexandros.livejournal.com]

If you did have those shoes, I'd be very tempted to steal them. Only I wouldn't because, you know, that would be wrong, and they'd be too small for me anyway. I think those shoes would make even my ankles look shapely.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Those are very cute. They have some very similar shoes here:

http://www.aerosoles.com/product1.asp?P=ROMANCE

I guess they aren't Mary Janes, (but T-straps are cousins to Mary Janes) and it looks like they don't ship outside of the US or Canada but...I have tried on this shoe and it was very comfy and cute. I thinking of getting them in dark grey and black once I've paid bills. I can't quite imagine myself in red shoes, for some reason. It's probably a significant character flaw.

[bexless.livejournal.com]

Jones the bootmaker are a really great company in terms of service, too. I had a pair of beaded pink flats I adored from them, and they broke a couple times and Jones paid for them to be repaired and had them shipped directly back to my house both times :)