in which I discuss shoes

- shoes by one particular company: Jeffrey Campbell. I'd like to think that Jeffrey Campbell is one guy who designs and has shoes manufactured but I'm a little too jaded. For the purposes of this post, however, I'll assume Jeffrey Campbell is just one guy who designs shoes...and I'm assuming he occasionally loses his mind.

See, this shoe



delights me. If I had a shoe budget I'd purchase it as, for reasons unknown to me, I've only bought brown shoes for the past couple of years and sorely need some black ones. Anyway, I like the buckles and the straps and the flatness.

I had these shoes for a few days this spring -



I teetered and enjoyed them and was very tall. But I chickened out and sent them back as I couldn't see me walking all those blocks to my office each morning in them. Very on-trend, reasonably priced and cute.

I might even be able to be talked into these -



they're black! I'd have to see them in person.

One might even make an argument for these -



very lattice-y and fashion-forward, with a reasonable heel.

But, these?



Pushing the envelope.

And what in the world is going on here?



A lot. A lot is going on here. I haven't a clue how one wears these. What do they go with? (Do I sound old? Would Lady Gaga wear these? Is she so 2010 already?)

Finally, we come to these



and I click away.