I adore those! I picture them with a skinny pink mini-skirt and a white off-the-shoulder top.
Update: I bought the shoes, everyone, and I’m wearing them now. They’re so goddamn uncomfortable but man, do they look cute.
I wear a 6 ½, in case you get tired of them. 
I’m another that never got the shoe shopping thing down because I have such large feet. I wear an 11 or 12 wide in women’s shoes.
Heels look ridiculous on such big foots, anyway.
gasp Hell, I have 7 pairs of high-heeled boots alone, not even counting all my other heels. I only own three pairs of flat shoes though.
I could care less about what other women feel about my shoes (although who doesn’t like a “omg, those shoes are adorable!” compliment? Thanks, Kalhoun!! 
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I buy shoes for me…well, ok, and my fiance loves me in sexy heels too, which is a big perk, since heels is pretty much all I wear anyways. grin
I do have a rule about not spendng alot of money on shoes though. Well, not so much a rule as a personal philosophy that says “why pay a ton of money on one pair of shoes, when I know I can probably buy 4-5 pairs for the same amount of money and have even MORE shoes!”
Boots I’ll spend up to 100 dollars (though out of 7 pairs of boots I only have 2 that cost that much, the rest were 30-50 bucks each…good basic black heeled boots that go with about anything I’ll spend more on, “novelty” boots, like boots in odd colors or styles I won’t spend as much on), and shoes I will almost never spend more than 40 bucks a pair, and alot of my “novelty” heels like the ones I linked above cost avg. 15-20 bucks.
Never have I bought stupid shoes, but one time I bought…
The Cruel Shoes!
Actually once I bought kinda dumb shoes. I was in Payless buying my usual plain black sneakers and sitting next to them was this pair of purple faux-alligator pumps. On a lark I tried them on and they fit, which is bizarre, because I wear a man’s size 12W. They were on sale for like 80% off so I surrendered to destiny. When I took them up to the counter the clerk was like, “you know these come in gold too, did you see the gold?” Which I thought was pretty cool for a teenage shoe clerk in Payless.
Yes, and I eat Stupid Flakes for breakfast.
Let’s see, my regular shoewear consists of: a pair of practical boots, or a pair of harness boots. Eeyore slippers when I’m at home. Flipflops in the summer. (Although I have formal and interview heels, 1pr each)
And yet. And yet.
<a href=“Queue-it”>Oooooh.</a> I have no freaking clue where I’d wear those babies to, since I don’t go clubbing, but those are oddly appealing when I jog past the Fluevog storefront on my way to catch the bus.
Do it! DO IT!
Psst! It’s stupid food, Eve.
I’d buy them. Do they look like this?
Hell, you can wear them at home, if you want, when you’re sitting down and just feel like wearing cute shoes on your feet.
Not that I um, ever do that or anything.
I am not a shoe girl.
Really, really not. I usually buy one pair of shoes, run them into the ground, and then keep wearing them for a month or two until I find another pair to do the same thing to.
And yet… every so often (maybe once a year… usually less) I’ll come across a pair of shoes that I really want - because they’re odd and they’re cheap. This past Sunday, I saw a pair of ankle boots with 4 inch heels (bad enough), but they were houndstooth & cloth. I live in a city where it rains all the time. There is no place that I can even conceive of that I could possibly wear these. And even if I could think of the place, I have no clothes to wear them with. They would clash with everything.
But there were only two pairs left, both in my size (and they fit!), and they were dirt cheap (every so often, having giant feet helps) . If they’re there next time I go by - I’m getting them.
Like Amarinth, I am not a shoe girl. But in my case, I really am not.
I own three pairs of shoes:
-black, low-heel, flexible sole shoes that I wear every day to work, and that I generally replace every 6-9 months as they wear out. (The last time I bought a pair, I kept the shoebox just so I know what to get when these wear out.) These are also the closest thing I have to “dress shoes,” unless there is snow on the ground.
-a pair of sneakers. These are my walking/hiking shoes, which I generally wear on weekends, although my work shoes are comfortable enough that I often just wear them instead of sneakers.
-a pair of winter boots, also with a low heel and flexible soles. They are dressy and comfortable enough that I just wear them to work when it snows, and I don’t bother to bring other shoes to change into.
The last time I wore high heels was about 25 years ago. I have extremely flat feet–no arch at all–and heels are torture for me. My mother insisted that I have at least one nice pair of high heels for dressy occasions, though. My mother and I decided to take my sister out for her 21st birthday, and the three of us dressed up, including high heels. One of the heels slid out from under me as I was walking downstairs, so instead of going to a nice restaurant that night, we ended up in the ER taking care of a couple of dislocated toes. When I got home from the ER, I threw away every pair of high heels I owned, and swore never to look at them again.
I still haven’t figured out why women think that torture can be “cute” and “irresistible.”
Because it’s not “torture” for all of us 
I fully understand how a high heel can be painful. Before I lost all my weight, my shoe collection sat mostly unused. Today, I’m wearing a pair of 4" python slingbacks and loving every minute of it.
Personally speaking, for me, it’s not the heel that is the killer - it’s the footbed of the shoe. The balls of the feet carry all the burden and if the footbed & toebox aren’t made properly, it’s hell on earth.
VCNJ~
I avoid stupid shoes. I went looking for winter boots yesterday; my current ones were cheap and have started to leak. I saw lots of boots with nice suede uppers and pwecious fur trim around the cuffs. Soles? Most had high heels, and decent treads were nonexistent. I mean, how stylish can you look while falling on your arse on a sheet of ice? So I got these mean-looking clunky things with big spiky treads.
Thank you. Thank you so much. I will think of you every time I discover that I’m watching television while wearing pajamas and the three-inch strappy sandals I happened to come across while looking for something else and couldn’t resist putting on. I’m in the process of moving–I found shoes I forgot I owned and spent last Saturday afternoon packing up my library while wearing pointy-toed witch boots.
That’s always my problem. I’m not exactly a ballerina.
I haven’t been able to find a good pair of those this year. I have enormous calves, so boots are usually hard for me to find, but most years I can find a pair of big black combat-style boots with a good tread and maybe an inch or two of heel. Apparently, that’s not in this year.
Ok, just because I need to post them somewhere, the stupid shoes I’m currently lusting after are these platform beauties. Swoon. But they’re too much for the office so I don’t have anywhere to wear ‘em and, most importantly, they’re four-freakin’ hundred dollars. But they’re Vivienne Westwoods and in my size and, if I eat only ramen and walk to work everyday and don’t buy Christmas presents for anyone I could maybe afford them. Sigh. I’m a horribly selfish person.
What exactly, are shower shoes? I thought they were flip-flop type things you wore so you wouldn’t have to stand on tile in a public shower (like at a gym.)
I have some shoes I wear every day, and some for special occasions. And damn if I don’t feel sexy wearing the special shoes. They’re not practical for work, but for going out to a party or an anniversary dinner? Yummm…
Just 'cause I don’t buy stupid shoes there’s no reason why anyone else shouldn’t. My feet are almost as wide as they are long, and at my job must be safely covered. I spend as much as I can squeeze out of the budget for very sensible shoes.
If your budget can comfortably accomodate these lovely sounding shoes then go buy them, I say. Besides, black shoes aren’t ever truly stupid. If they were orange and green but still fabulous I’d say…naaahhhh, I’d still say get 'em.
tremorviolet, after looking at your link, I am seriously lusting after these babies.
I have big calves too. It’s all muscle from cycling, somewhat unfortunately, which means I can’t really lose it, or squish it into a boot. I like some delicate, pretty shoes and boots, but the calf thing + the fact that I spend a lot of time outdoors makes having those a recipe for disaster for me. The closest thing to fancy that I really look for are Doc or combat-style boots that have a “girly” type cut. Kinda thing you might find at Hot Topic. Feminine enough so you don’t look like you’re enlisting in the army, yet the sight of them makes guys cringe if they imagine said boots connecting with their crotches.