I interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you my current obsession and crisis: finding the perfect platform or wedge dark brown leather sandal. As usual, I know exactly what I want, and as usual, the people who make shoes refuse to bow to my divine will.
I want this shoe, but as a sandal:
Or this shoe, but made of real leather, in a beautiful dark brown, with a comfortable heel height (3" would be perfect):
I love the huarache/woven leather thing going down right now but I'd love it more if those sandals were available in a closed-toe option. Par example:
The Born Osorio is nearly perfect, and nearly closed toe, but not. It's also a towering 4" of heel that I may just be able to pull off, but then again I might fall to my death on the subway stairs while wearing them and that would be tragic and senseless.
Sigh. Why don't I have my own custom-huarache wedge heel sandal maker named Juan who can fashion the sandal of my dreams while I am served margaritas on some lovely Mexican beach?
Why, I ask you!
[this is good] Ah, the eternal shoe crisis. I know it well. So, wait, do you want closed toe or not? And if so, why do you prefer it?
Posted by: craige | 05/21/2007 at 06:05 PM
I do want closed toe because open toe is not always appropriate, especially in work situations. Also, certain pants look very wrong with open toe sandals. So far I've been unlucky in my search, but I did buy the Born Lucia (which I did not profile, but is wonderful and also almost perfect).
Posted by: TheAsceticLibertine | 05/30/2007 at 12:04 PM