STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

kahluamilk · Dooney & Bourke

RE: infamous fugly shoes seen IRL with pics!

jettie · Kate Spade

Yikes!!! Those are terrible!

Claudia · Gucci

Wow. Those are ugly.

theotherjess · Chanel

Great pics, but I must admit, I'm a little disappointed. I thought you took a picture of some random girl wearing these shoes. If only...

wicked · Coach

You are such a good sport for giving them a whirl!

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

I wish we could make them an emoticon, so we could put them in our posts and our signatures, like Tati and the sushi... D? Can we request a custom emoticon from the emoticon people?

laken1 · Hermes

I keep coming back to this thread & I seriously want to hear the story. Like you were in XX store, you asked to try them on & someone had to go get them out of the back in your size? Or surely they were hanging out on some clearance rack? If someone had to go get them - did they see you taking the pixs? I am DYING of curiosity... Do tell.

Lilykind · Hermes

theotherjess: If I had seen them on a girl, I would've complimented her outfit and asked about her shoes...and then taken a picture to post.

I was shopping on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood since I got off work early. This part of Sunset is a high-end shopping mecca. Our Calypso and Fresh stores are here, along with a lot of high end clothing (the lowest end is Club Monaco and Armain Exchange) shoe stores (think Rene Cavolla, Prada, Calleen Cordero, Jimmy Choo, the good Marc Jacobs).

I'm walking around by myself looking for shoes...I want pretty shoes right now. I saw this shoe store with a clearance rack smack dab in the middle so I went in. Most of the shoes are pretty cool but I saw these and I about died in a strage cobination of excitement and disgust. They had them in my size so I asked the salesperson to give me the mate. The whole time I am literally dying of laughter inside thinking about you girls and how much y'all would get a kick out of this.

I took the picture in front of the SA...he seemed utterly bewildered that I was so fascinated with the shoes. I was giggling and laughing like a 10 year old the whole time.

The shoes are on sale for $105. Anyone want me to pick a pair up for them...I mean Zappos doesn't have this green beauty.

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

That is too funny! A couple months ago I saw those on nordies website and sent a link to my busines partner that said "we need to buy these for the store!" ( a joke of course) she was so horrified , she thought I was serious and ended up calling me and bawling me out .

Classic . Great joke shoes!

laken1 · Hermes

that is great!

Kelly · Hermes

those really are so much more hideous IRL, if that's possible

you are my hero!

(my bf is sleeping in bed right now and I want to laugh so hard but I don't want to wake him up because he'd think I was being stupid, so I'm doing that awful silent-laugh shake)

-- Edited by ttara123 at 15:40, 2006-08-13

Shello · Kenneth Cole

Thank you for putting your feet through that for our entertainment!

I really can't believe someone was crazy enough to design those, let alone make them or sell them!!