My Underground London brothel creepers from Trash and Vaudeville in the East Village are technically flats. The shoes, which are made by a French sneaker company founded in 1950, were purchased at A Uno. The crinkled scarf, designed by Yoshiaki Yuki, is from Gallery Gen. The black and white striped socks are my homage to the Wicked Witch of the West. My Pataugas ankle-strapped, rubber-soled black leather flats are terrifically comfortable. The McQueen logo appears discreetly at the tongue and heel of the shoe.īloggus Interruptus! I paused to download and size the McQueen pictures and when I returned to shoot my next pair of shoes, found that my spot was 'occupado'! DeeDee had decided to take matters into her own hands and commandeer the set. It was an incredible thrift shop find last winter. The orange and burnt-out red dot scarf is from Japanese designer Nuno. Leave it to Lee to make goth althetic footwear sexy. (Take our word for it: Run, don't walk to the 'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum before it closes in early August.

They came with a metal mountain lion talon on a chain, which I immediately incorporated into my charm necklace. Lesson learned.)Īmong my favorite flats are my Alexander McQueen black patent leather cut-out high top sneakers by Puma. By the time we took these photos it had stopped raining.

(Valerie says: I foolishly dressed for the weather Jean shrewdly dressed for glamor. In the above two photos we're showing off two pairs of flats, although all you can really see is that irresistible pink aurora. The conventional wisdom is that shoes can't be flat and wonderful at the same time, so we thought we'd fly in the face of conventional wisdom and show you some of the flat shoes we wear and love.

At first we thought this was an old lady issue, but we've been surprised at the number of women half our age who complain that high heels are painful and exacerbate their tender and sensitive feet. So flat shoes can't come back fast enough for us. Much as we really did love and admire and covet the shoes on stalactites that have been so popular for the last several seasons, we really couldn't wear them, what with our respective foot issues. We've been noticing a bit of talk in the fashion media saying that flat shoes are coming back into style.

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