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This is not a shoe blog: The best shoes always return to you
Monday, September 21, 2009 I bought many pairs that were ridiculously uncomfortable, launched me from earning a salary to getting disposable income deposit into my checking account every two weeks, and eased the misery of working for a nonprofit. Among those shoes purchased to justify my swanky downtown professional existence in a dusty building with a squeaky elevator that always smelled like hot dogs, was a pair of beautiful, plum-colored suede shoes. They tied with a big black grosgrain bow and made me feel like a flapper when I pulled them over black, black tights and with a flitty black chiffon dress.
I adored those purple suede lovelies and it pained me to add them to the consignment bag last year when I purged 42 pairs of shoes from the plastic tubs under my bed. I hadn't worn them in years when I said goodbye to them. As pretty as they were, their time had long past.
Those shoes -- like my blue shark skin (seriously, real shark skin) Mary Janes from first grade, my granny boots and combat boots and first pair of pink knee-high leather boots, and more recently, my red peep toes -- have a special place in the closet of my heart.
That's why I gasped a little when I saw them again, only now updated and higher heeled and designed by Diane von Furstenberg and even more fabulous. So, so pretty.
And since I am certainly not above a good knock-off (or at least a really good alternative), I also am delighted to see the spirit of purple suede past alive in these booties by a very highly regarded designer at (shhh) Payless for a fraction (this is about shoes, kittens, not math) of the price.
Either would be adorable with thick tights, or a fitted wool or sweater dress, or even with jeans. And I am pretty sure one of those pairs is going to be on my feet very soon.
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