no-hope

Why am I so preoccupied with winter boots? All I want is a plain black leather pair that come up to the top of my ankle with a bit of a heel. In Auckland, it is impossible. I whinged to Lou about this, and she said they're everywhere in Melbourne, but that's always the way. New Zealand is a boot desert. There are no good boots here, unless you're after the massive-wedge-lace-up-cut-out style. There are heaps of those. Below, the Alexander Wang Addison boots (unattainably expensive), Jeffrey Campbell Areas (sold out) and the mystery ones in Miss Crabb's look book. 

I know. I KNOW.

 

They look better on. 

I know that I am not really a Karen Walker girl. I think you have to be a certain type of girl to wear her clothes and I am just not that type of girl. I am, however, a Beau Coops girl. I'm also an Agent 99 girl, a That Girl girl, a Mary Tyler-Moore girl and an Elaine from The Graduate girl and therefore I really am a Karen Walker x Beau Coop girl and I wish they weren't five hundred dollars because then I would buy them and wear them everyday.

 

high or low?

I'm going to buy some white chucks today, the ones with the red and blue on them. I'm leaning towards low, I think. I will protector spray the chucks so I don't ruin them. And then they will be my chucks forever. I like this picture of Elvis wearing Chucks. It sums up how I think they are best worn: crisply, with letterman sweaters, slacks a la Take Ivy, with pre-fat Elvis.

Incedentally, this movie, Change of Habit, looks really good. That's Mary Tyler Moore with Elvis. Photos are from here.

When I was 16 I bought a pair of chucks that were black and had "Mangere" embroidered on them. At the time I thought I was being really funny and ironic, but in retrospect I think I was just being a little shit. 

I've often moaned about my inability to dress as preppily as I would like. Never mind that I only seem to wear grey marl, blue denim, tan shoes and khaki anoraks: I just can't shake that grungy, rumpled feeling. Maybe white chucks will help. But perhaps the answer is that I should iron my clothes.  

Another topic I frequently rant about is how much I love Linda Ronstadt in the 1970s. Well, get a load of these photos from her Simple Dreams tour. *Also get a load of JD Souther (far right). Babe.

Everyone on that tour was impeccably dressed. I love the flares, I love the short shorts, I love denim on denim, I love shirts tied up in knots, I love flowers behind ears, I love hirsute bands.

imaginary friends

Just doing a bit of imaginary online shopping. Wishing it was real. If I were to find myself today with a bucketload of cash here is what would be arriving on my doorstep next week.

Surface to Air suede wedges, £255 at Browns Opening Ceremony clog boot things £295.00 at Browns (they only have them in red on the OC site)

LD Tuttle 'The Gather', £375.00 at Amelie Boutique

LD Tuttle 'The Hun', USD$610 from Oak NYC

kindness of strangers

me: good shoes http://www.milkfromathistle.com/products/
2:48 PM Han: THOSE ARE PERFECT SHOES
me: I thought you'd agree
shame they're just part of the lookbook styling
and not credited
moh
2:49 PM Han: yeah just noticed
me: but i'm hanging on to the possibility of them being australian/available in aus
Hannah: yes that would be awesome we could be shoe twins
2:53 PM me: I just emailed to ask



Thank you thank you to the talented and lovely Danielle of Milk from a Thistle for replying to my completely random enquiry with not only a name but a link to the online store. They will be mine!

P.S. Danielle's prints and dresses are rather sweet for Summer don't you think?

yellow boots

The idea of buying some Timberland boots has been unusually appealing to me for a little while.

They used to conjure up images of J-Lo, probably wearing some kind of silk khaki jumpsuit...but a while ago I saw one of the gals from Anywho wearing some flat ones and, unoriginal copycat that I am, I started keeping my eyes out for some on the internet.

Then today I saw some worn with total panache on Wayne Tippett's blog.

Thoughts? I can probably get some of the high ones off ebay...

Pity that it is summer now so they'd be totally frivolous!
They also make some really cute Karen Walker-esque boat shoes, and you can "build your own" in whatever colours you like. Hmmm.

The sun came out today after a weekend of huge rain. To celebrate I'm taking the next couple of days off work and doing a mini road trip to a friend's beach house.

This is great because I've not been out of Melbourne (except on a plane) since I moved here. I have no idea where it is we're even going. I'm listening to Beach House in honor of the spontanious trip and considering buying paperbacks and sandals on my lunch break.

you know we like shoes

I foolishly went on Etsy today in search of some brown platform-y heels in a Phoebe Philo for Celine vein:


I found these ones, which are vintage Ralph Lauren, and selling for $290 US. I don't have $290 US. If you do, buy them here. I'll glower at you over the Internet.

Then I found these ones. I dig the wooden heel and the general woody vibe of these shoes. Plus they are really, really old. But still, they look a bit chunky and I have these tiny chicken legs and would probably look like a child in them. They're pretty cheap - $35 US - and are here if you want 'em. They have a smaller heel than is normal these days also, which I quite like. Regardless, I moved on.


The shoes I wound up buying (foolishly: both my sisters' birthdays are in December, and there's Christmas and a trip to Melbourne to save for) are pictured below. They have cork heels and are very different to the Celine ones that inspired the search in the first place. Including shipping they still came in under NZ $100 which is really quite good - or so I will keep chanting to myself until they arrive.

Oh god I hope they fit.

As an aside: I've been totally into the whole clog thing that is happening at the moment but for the life of me cannot find any look like they would actually be flattering. Any ideas? Or is it just not a look for the chicken legged among us?

It doesn't help that Auckland is a shoe-desert full of crocs and shops telling me to buy strappy citrus coloured heels. DON'T THEY KNOW THAT I ONLY BUY BLACK, TAN or BROWN SHOES? Hence I go running to the Internet to "browse", and wind up spending money on forty year old shoes with chips in the heels that will probably fall apart within twenty minutes of putting them on. But the idea of stomping around Melbourne in them in the heat of summer is somehow totally irresistible...

things that make me go HMMMM

So today these shoes I ordered from Urban Outfitters arrived. I was feeling really trepidatious about them, and for good reason. The day after I ordered them, they dropped in price by $10 and two people posted TERRIBLE reviews about them. Anyway. They are here.

How am I feeling about them? I'm not sure.

They're slightly too big for me. The colour is a bit stronger and more beige than nude, I guess?

Maybe they'll grow on me? Maybe I need to bash them with a cricket bat to soften them up a bit? I was very excited at time of ordering because they are by Slow and Steady Wins the Race which I like. Its the first time since January that I have bought flat shoes and its making me go HMMM (I don't know what happened there).

Other things which make me go HMMM:

- 500 Days of Summer. I'm going tonight and am really unsure about whether or not I'll like it. Indie rom-coms = HMMM. Also, watching Joseph Gordon Levitt kiss other girls literally hurts my heart because he should be in my bed, wearing adorable pyjamas, reading the newspaper with me. ME.

- People saying that Pacey looks like a poppy seed bagel. Thats wrong. He looks like a crumple faced pug dog and I mean that in the best possible way.

- Paying $20 to get film developed and put on a DVD. And having to wait a week for it. WTF world?

Also its friggin cold. H8 lyf. Hmm.

on (not) another note

I just added a lovely pair of Tristan Blair wedges to my very-small-since-moving-countries shoe collection. Despite me having NO MONEY to spend on lovely things, because ALL MY MONEY must be spent on teeth, I am rather chuffed with this rash purchase. I can't show you pictures because they are nowhere on the internet.

I am not one of those girls that wears heels every day. I would like to be, and in Auckland - for a short stint working on Queen St - I was, however since moving to Melbourne I have probably worn heels about seven times. I just feel as though I am Very Dressed Up whenever I put on anything high and have decided that this needs to change.

Anyway, here are some pictures of more shoes that Han and I can't afford. Because that's what you want to see right?

Shoes from top: Pierre Hardy (on Garance Dore), Guiseppe Zanotti and Givenchy, all taken from Jak & Jill , my favorite blog for shoe porn.....
The two above are the sandals Han and I may end up matching in from Opening Ceremony, and my big crush - lattice wedges also from Opening Ceremony...

cruel world of unattainable shoes

Shoe porn from refinery29.
Studs, buckles and clunky heels. Mmmmm.

I can't remember...are the top ones the cloggish ones from Oak that I previously mentioned? Ach!

The boots are Alexander Wang...whose ubiquity would almost be tiresome if he wasn't so damn good. Gotta love armchair critiques from a girl who couldn't possibly actually buy anything from his range, HA! How's that for meaningless?

Want shoes. Moh. TGIF x

want want want

I want want want these kaylee tankus clogs. Real bad. Pity I don't have $420 US to drop on clogs at the mo...

You can get them from here if you do. And then pop them in the post to me in New Zealand. Kia ora. Photos from oaknyc.com.