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tara t · Marc Jacobs

RE: Question about shoes...

shopgirl82 · Chanel

i would get one, or two on ebay. are these the gucci shoes that you were talking about?

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i them, and i really want them.

Cecilia · Nine West

I would buy a $600 pair of shoes, if they were guaranteed to fit and not hurt. Unfortunately, I have NEVER found a pair like that. So I buy custom hand-made shoes in the $100-150 price range, they last 2-3 years, and my feet love them!

serisvictoria · BCBG

that is a tough question. if i were buying staples or something that will be in for a long time or something classic, i would probably spend a little more money on them. i would buy probably 2-3 pairs with $600. now if i were getting shoes that are super trendy and only wearable for a short time or that by next season i wouldn't be caught dead in, i would go for the inexpensive ones that i would end up getting rid of in a year. i think the only shoes i would spend $600 on would be manolo's. i love love love love manolo's and i haven't had the ball's to spend that kind of money on a pair of shoes, but when i do, those will be it.

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

If I'm buying them at full price because someone handed me free money, 3 or 4 pairs probably. Realistically though, I'm like Lilykind--obsessively bargain-hunting--and $600 would probably get me 8 or 9 pairs (not including boots) worth twice as much. I like the theory of investing in really great, high-quality stuff, but the problem I've had with my attempts at that so far is that my taste keeps evolving. Even stuff that I thought of as classic when I bought it, I rarely wear now because it feels too conservative. So I wouldn't trust myself to still like the same pair of Manolos five years from now.

hotcocoa · Kate Spade

i'm pretty sure i'd splurge and get one really great pair. i have a pretty edited down shoe closet. i feel like i have my bases covered in the footwear department so i only really buy shoes if they are so totally "hotcocoa" that i cannot live without them, knowing that i'll wear the hell out of them.

blink · Coach

I said three. I just couldn't spend it on one pair, unless I had unlimited income. I think about it this way, even if I did get a lot of use out of them, they would be so worn afterwards that I would feel guilty for destroying such expensive shoes. And I am not a shoe collector, so I would feel just as guilty if I only wore them every once in a while.

shopgirl · Kenneth Cole

i would get get five or more pair of designer shoes at sample sales/barney's warehouse sale. i've never spent more than $100 on shoes.

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NCshopper · Hermes

I'd get probably 5 or so pairs of shoes. I usually spend about $70-$120 on a pair of shoes, and my shoe wardrobe still has a few holes (brown knee high boots, black casual heels, espadrilles, t-strap heels) so I'd busy myself finding shoes to fill my needs.

berryahou35 · Dooney & Bourke

Elle wrote:

To be perfectly honest, $600 could replace the entirety of my shoe collection and then some. If it were me and I was splurging, I could buy 12 pairs of shoes with that much. Not splurging I could easily buy 18 or 20 pairs with that much.-- Edited by Elle at 13:02, 2006-02-07

Same here, but I could probably buy around 30 pairs Thought it is also true that I'm a "shoe wrecker"

she_wears_pink · BCBG

laken1 wrote:

$100 is about my price point where I start to balk. That being said, I also have shoes that cost $5 - $250. I'm really comfy in the $50-$70 range.

This sounds like me too. Except I don't think I've spent more than $100 on a single item of footwear.