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Shoes from modcloth.com, Not Rated, asos.com, Faith, and Steve Madden

Granted, the boots are kind of hideous, but also mesmerisingly eye-catching, and the piping and cutout detail is kind of cool. They could be used to good effect in a costume, maybe.

(ETA:The Steve Maddens are near-exact ripoffs of Topshop shoes posted here two seasons ago in red, I think it was. It should be noted that at the same time, big wide-heeled mjs with a metal ring round the bottom of the heel had trickled as far down as New Look, having been actually DESIGNED at Chloé like... three years ago? And I just now saw a copy of them at delias.com, though not an exact one. That's right - delia's:even further down the chain of knockoffs than Steve Madden. Apparently, they're about two steps - okay, unfair, 10 steps - above Wal-Mart and pretty far behind Target.)