Y-3 on sale at The Outnet. So ugly, yet so right

HOLY F' SHOE GOD JIL FUCKING SANDER.
I can't even express virtually how excited these make me.
Maybe this? It's like a leather coral reef in a mystic redwood forest, but on your feet. That's two forests in one on your fucking feet!

The other day when waiting for Nell, I took a stroll down the lovely Maiden Lane in San Francisco. I decided to peek into Marc Jacobs and what did I find inside that was 70% off?....
THESE PUPPIES! I've been dangerously into them for 2 long seasons and now they are slightly more in reach.

via. Sea of Shoes

i need to find these in a consignment shop. how perfect are they?
oldie but goodie by marc jacobs

McQueen's last shoe. Totally sad. Totally Epic.

So since PUMPS & RYE has started, I've been kinda shoe-crazy. I now refer to online window shopping as "research". It's sad. What's also sad is that my desktop (errr...Shannon's desktop) is loaded with shoes that never made the posting cut. So here's a collection of orphaned shoe images that can finally find a home at PUMPS & RYE.

If a dominatrix-equestrian made love in a Z Gallerie showroom they would create this shoe-baby.

DKNY

If anal beads (yeah I went there) had a threesome with these two crazies they would somehow create this shoe-baby.

Ce Ce Chin

If Matthew Osborne made sweet sweet love to this Japanese chick in a haystack, they would create this shoe- baby.

Tsumori Chisato at Opening Ceremony

If JT made out of C3PO, and gave C3PO herpes and then, C3PO hooked up with Barbarella, they would create this shoe-baby

Raphael Young

If my art made love to the dude being licked...well he would great this shoe.

Thakoon

So I don't like to admit it, but I still have a thing for glitter. (Sorry that was an obvious not-funny...I'll try better next time.) I've also got a thang for cheap shit. So these are kind of like one big vice-bootie-package.

On sale at Forever 21 for $13

I'm too tired to be funny. I want loafer pumps.

TODS

MARC BY MARC JACOBS

SHOEBOX

CASADEI

Dream Shoes

I know that I am out of the loop when it comes to runway shows (although I've been sporting clogs for years...thank you), I thought that I would bring the Prada Chandelier shoes back into the spot light for a minute.  Now THIS is shoe porn.

(From JAK AND JIL blog)

Aside from the Miu Miu cat print, 2010 has seen only one other shoe-hysteria...THE CLOG!!!! Miu Miu actually gave in to this as well, Garance clogged (HA! get it! clog + blogged = clogged) the issue back in February and this website clogged it too, yet still there seems to be no definitive answer. Are they ugly-town? Yes, a good amount of the time. Two years ago would they have been associated with orthopedic shoes? Yes. When you test them out do you feel like stumpy? So then why can't we succumb to a resolution? Maybe we truly like the ugly? And with all of these under $150 (plus one expensive dream clog from Anthro above), they're kinda difficult to resist.

TOPSHOP

ASOS

KORKEASE

GRAVITY POPE

RACHEL COMEY (on sale at petulia's folly)

Let me teach you the ways of Kron. Generally the term (spelled "chron", but for the purpose of this post I'm using a "k") is used by upper-class and high-society Bay Area-ites to describe a certain quality of Chronic. Kron tends to be this, but when a the word "bomb" is applied prior to "kron" the possibilities are endless. So you can imagine my excitement when I heard of the shoe company Kron by Kron Kron. Not 1, not 2, but 3 Krons?! Holy crap! That's like the most bombastic kron experience ever!

Dudes! Yeah I'm talking you Steve Madden, Jeffery Campbell, Aldo and Topshop! When you gonna get on making Miu Miu knock-offs? Seriously it's been like 4 months since they were first released. And it's not like it's the most blogged about shoe in history!? Oh wait it is! It only take 1 day for your Korean/Ukrainian factory to make one. I'm dying over here! You think I can afford Miu Miu's bagillion dollar price tag? Queen's Wardrobe already got on it and they're all sold out. It's your turn now!

So I was hanging out at the Gagosian Store one day (you know, like how I always do) and this Brazilian babeula came in wearing a floor length Mongolian Sheep hair floor length coat, some jeans and these cray-cray Marc Jacob shoes. I remember thinking that MJ had pretty much blatantly copied those United Nude shoes that I hated for so long. Then "The Shan" and I took a trip down to Bus Stop Boutique in Philadelphia, where we fell in love with a pair of United Nude shoes, so now I think I'm gonna give them another chance. That was a horrible story. Here are some pictures to make up for it.

These were the one's at Bus Stop.

Irregular Choice, why you gotta always be creating the ugly dilemma? I mean at first, I pass you off as being just straight up tacky, but then that weird part of me comes out and I start to feel sympathy for you. I even start to kinda like you. It's the part of me I like to repress, the one where I get all nostalgic for Fruits. Anyhow, you see what issues you create for me. I mean come on!...you're ugly...

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For ages I had wondered who the 12-year-old boy in drag at all the Fashion Week after parties was (example image here). Then one day I was browsing the Selby and found out I was a fashion imbecile. Turns out her name is Sarah. Turns out she's the buyer/owner/creator/genius for Colette. Turns out she's kind of a big deal. Anyhow...Since then I've been slobbering over my roommates computer over the shoes she stocks.

Tabitha Simmons

Roger Vivier

McQueen

Junya Watanabe

Alexander Wang

P.S.

I promise I don't only love black shoes. It's just a phase, I'll grow out of it soon.

What the WHAT?! Is that a bizzaro Pac-Lady? a bloated bottle opener? clogs on steroids? Is it wrong that I want them?

Gee Wa Wa at Solestruck