Category: Shoe Reviews


  • Chanel Slingbacks Review: The New Classic ft. Sizing Tips & Prices

    Chanel Slingbacks Review: The New Classic ft. Sizing Tips & Prices

    On March 10th 2015, an unexpected force was launched into the fashion world: the revamped Chanel slingbacks. Either in leather or suede, every model during the 97-look long Fall/Winter 2016 show had one thing in common; their two tone Chanel slingbacks. A simple beige body with a black capped toe, they were on every single…

  • Hermès Oran Sandals Review: Sizing, prices, & what you need to know

    Hermès Oran Sandals Review: Sizing, prices, & what you need to know

    Hermès Oran sandals… where to start? There’s the iconic “H” cut-out across the top that makes a dodgy tan line so worth it… There’s that smell of new Italian leather that could get you drunker than a bottle of grappa… There are all those articles about how they’re the “#1 shoe” to wear this summer,…

  • Every detail including latest prices & fit | Chanel Ballet Flats review

    Every detail including latest prices & fit | Chanel Ballet Flats review

    With Chanel’s infamous price hikes, Chanel ballet flats are seriously expensive starting at $975 USD in 2024. Considering that in 2008, they cost $550 USD, it’s actually kind of nuts… actually, a ~77.27% price increase for a pair of shoes (over 16 years) is all the nuts (and especially includes “premium” cashews). … but here’s…

  • 9 pairs of pumps & 7 pieces of advice: A Christian Louboutin Heels Review

    9 pairs of pumps & 7 pieces of advice: A Christian Louboutin Heels Review

    Click clack, click clack, click clack Who the hell is wearing heels? … and also, what kinda heels are those? The New York Times says a pair of Christian Louboutin heels are “shorthand for luxury, fabulosity and sex appeal, a kind of synecdoche of success.” … but, are these red bottomed shoes really worth it?…

  • Step into comfort: Bobbies Paris shoe review

    Step into comfort: Bobbies Paris shoe review

    When people complain about “wedding season,” it goes way over my head. You see, at 30-something years old, I don’t go to a lot of weddings. … like, the last two weddings I’ve gone to, I was either a flower girl or the bride. I don’t find it burdensome to turn down a wedding invitation.…

  • Worth it? My updated Reformation shoe and boot review

    Worth it? My updated Reformation shoe and boot review

    In the last four years, a lot has changed. There’s the obvious stuff, like all of 2020/21. … but then there’s the not-so-obvious stuff (to me at least). Like, Reformation has expanded even more than before. When their shoe line started in 2019 and it was like, “will this really work?” … but then it…

  • The ugliest, yet comfiest clog | A Birkenstock Boston review

    The ugliest, yet comfiest clog | A Birkenstock Boston review

    I’m pretty sure that Gucci Princetown mules was the kindling to this. … and Isabel Marant’s Mirvin shoes was the match that must have lit it up. All I know for sure is that a slew of designers (Marni, J.W. Anderson, and by the time this goes to publication, multiple others…) are putting out their…

  • Embrace comfort, stylishly | my Alaïa Shoe Review

    Embrace comfort, stylishly | my Alaïa Shoe Review

    I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum the type of “grown up” who effortlessly waltzes around wherever in high heels. Hair that’s never frizzy (ever!), sky-high heels that are (somehow) so easy to walk over subway grates in, and a chaotic, yet charming, cosmopolitan life — you know what I mean… Basically, the type of…

  • Return to comfort | Hermès Chypre Sandals Review

    Return to comfort | Hermès Chypre Sandals Review

    After the last 3 years, I’m apprehensive, but excited, that “everything” is quietly, yet quickly, returning to a “new” normal. Clean t-shirts? Sounds refreshing! Pants that aren’t sweatpants? Sure, why not! Going outside with clean hair? Sign me up! … but, there’s still a part of me that craves comfort. Especially in the shoe department.…

  • Loeffler Randall Ballet Flats Review: They’re out of step

    Loeffler Randall Ballet Flats Review: They’re out of step

    When I was 4, I dropped out of jazz ballet school after 2 seasons. My heart just wasn’t in it. … maybe it was something about being similar to an organized recreational sport. … or, maybe if there’d been tutus, I’d be on stage at Lincoln Center — actually, I probably wouldn’t; I’m too old…