Most women I know never stop talking about the YSL tribute pumps. I’ve had my fair share of times trying them on, traipsing around in them but never followed through with the purchase. The thing is, if I’m going to drop over $800 for a pair of shoes, I’d rather not see them on absolutely everyone. They’re insanely hot nonetheless and have been pulled off perfectly by the likes of one Jen Brill.
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On the hunt for the perfect pair, I’ve been obsessing over these few from Charlotte Olympia. If I’m really considering dropping close to a thousand bucks on a pair of heels, they’d better be seriously fucking nice and every single collection of shoes she has are to die for. The whole draw is not just the 5″ heel, which will make me 6′4 when worn (and that is a wonderful thing) but that each style is better than the next, although nothing really trumps the whip and ostrich pairs.
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Up next is of course a few pairs from Christian Louboutin. I’m not into the typical pretty pretty shoes from him that everyone loves so much so of course both of these studded pairs I would gladly accept into my closet. It’d also be fun to take all the studs from my old crust punk jackets and grab a pair of leather boots and do this my fucking self but whatever.
Yeah yeah, so maybe paying over $800 is crazy for shoes but who doesn’t appreciate a nice pair of heels? I’m not gonna wear these to the bar, no, Vans and boots are reserved for those nights out. These are for taking my puppy on her first walk in the early morning, picking up black truffle oil and caviar at Whole Foods and waiting for Ben Cho’s show to start during Fashion Week.
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Of course if you have the money to throw around and don’t give a fuck about who makes them (because really, as long as they’re aesthetically pleasing who cares who made them) you could go the same route as Daphne Guinness, who has all of her shoes made for her and favors a very high, stripper style shoe. Ideally I’d have a purple leather pair made for myself if I had the chance but for now the search is still on.
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Those shoes are like a defibrillator for my whiskey dick.
02.09.09 at 10:36 am
fuck off back to your dreamworld where people actually give a shit about $800 shoes. seriously??!
02.09.09 at 11:09 am
WELL I GUESS MISTER “HOWLING FANTOIDS” DOES’NT REMEMBER THE MID-80S WHEN BIKINI KILL CAME OUT AND KATHLEEN HANNA SAID “REVOULTION GIRLSCHOOL YEAH,” BUT I WAS THERE AND I THINK JENN HANDLEY WAS THERE TO, AND SHE HEARD THE CLARIONN CALL TO A NEW KIND OF FEMINIST JOURNALISM AND I THINK SHE HAS BEEN PERFECTING THE CRAFT EVER SENSE THEN, AND IT JUST GOES TO SHOW IN HER WRITING WHICH IS REALLY COMING INTO “IT’S OWN” . I THINK GAVIN MACINES CHOSE HER TO REPRESENT THIS WEB SIGHT BECAUSE HER WRITING REALLY REPRESENTS THE BEST OF THE ANGLO-EUROPEAN TRADITION AND BECAUSE HE IS AN ANGLO-EUROPEAN HIMSELF HE CHOSES TO PROMOTE THAT AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH IF YOU ARE CHOOSING THE BEST AND NOT THE LIBERAL LOOSERS WHO JUST WANT TO WRITE ABOUT GREEN PEACE OR WHATEVER.
I THINK WE CAN SAY THAT THERE REALLY IS NO NEED FOR A FEMINAZI B.S. ANYMORE BECASUE WOMEN TRULY HAVE ACHEIVED PARODY WITH MEN IN ALL THINGS PARTICULARLY THE MONEY, WAGES AND, ALSO EDUCATION SO LETS CELEBRATE HIGH HEELS AND MAKE KIND OF LIKE A HYBRID OF YE OLDE HIGH-HEEL TIMES AND THIS THE “GOLDEN AGE” LIKE TV ON THE RADIO SAID WHEN A BLACK MAN CAN BE PRESEDENT AND WOMEN LIKE JENN HANDLEY CAN PROVE THAT THIS AI’NT YOUR MOMMA’S GENERATION ANY MORE!!!
02.09.09 at 11:24 am
@ust a Normal: Totes!!!!!1111one
02.09.09 at 11:32 am
I just bought a pair of 5 inchers from Jeffrey Campbell and I fucking loove them. They are so easy to walk in because of the platform on the bottom. Yeah, they look like stripper shoes, but they make me so tall!! About 6 ft which is nice. They were $160, but I got them at $64. I love this economic crisis sometimes.
02.09.09 at 11:46 am
i agree, women have certainly achieved parody. Now they need to work on parity
02.09.09 at 12:22 pm
Good job, would appreciate more fashion posts on this site. But you have the exact opposite taste in shoes than me! What’s up with that?
02.09.09 at 12:37 pm
ugh. i’m glad i don’t know people iike you
02.09.09 at 12:50 pm
that’s meaner that i meant that to sound, but, you know. talking about buying clothes is like a magician revealing all his tricks before the show. if i know how much stupid bullshit goes into giving me a boner, i just can’t get into it.
02.09.09 at 12:53 pm
The sentence about when these shoes would be worn is the most pretentious thing I’ve ever read, ever. I gotta get that off my chest. Otherwise, fumbs up.
02.09.09 at 1:05 pm
so true– love this post!
02.09.09 at 1:23 pm
the pony whip ones are hot
02.09.09 at 2:15 pm
@fags: bravo sir
02.09.09 at 3:36 pm
@imyar: pony tail buttplugs to match. zzomgboner
02.09.09 at 3:43 pm
Jen, you’re trying way too hard…and it’s not working.
02.09.09 at 6:47 pm
seriously? there is nothing remotely interesting about this writing. you could at least attempt to be clever or insightful or anything worth sharing your opinions over. this is just you typing up your internal monologue as you cruised vogue for shoes on sunday afternoon. ps – i hope a homeless person pushes you flat on your ass while you are prancing around ignoring global financial crisis.
02.09.09 at 7:46 pm
i feel sorry for your puppy. i prefer jil sander.
02.09.09 at 9:37 pm
BAPS , you’re a sad person, and you sound like Ani Difranco which is a really really bad thing.
02.10.09 at 1:50 pm
it was revolution girl style now. a-doye.
02.10.09 at 5:16 pm
WELL I WAS THERE IN THE MID-80′S WHEN BIKINI KILL CAME OUT IN NYC AND I HEARD HER SAY THIS IN MANY INTERVIEWS AT THE TIMES SHE WANTED “WOMYN” TO GO TO SCHOOL BUT NOT GIRL SCHOOL LIKE THE BAND, AND SHE WAS DEFINATELY NOT INTO STYLE SO I DO’NT THINK YOU ARE CORRECT MR. UMMM.
02.10.09 at 8:24 pm
is this a joke?!?!?!
a) that girl with the YSL shoes looks like a hooker in a bad, sad way
b) every one of those charlotte olympia shoes are god awful
c) those loubs look like they belong at hot topic
d) that lady at the bottom looks like the 45 year old bride of frankenstein
02.10.09 at 8:49 pm
@Just a Normal Guy
You must be joking. Your post is riddled with so many errors it reaches “parody” with something a nine year old would write on the basis of something they heard from their friend’s sister’s pet. Kathleen Hanna was doing what when? I don’t think so. Even if your CAPS rant was factually convincing, you’d still seem like a ponce on account of your written express. Befriend a dictionary.
03.25.09 at 8:42 pm