my beautiful choo

How funny! I was poking around net-a-porter, trying to find the fabulous shoes I saw @ Dover Street Market yesterday, when I stumbled on these bad boys by Jimmy Choo (£545, or about $800 USD). And then I thought.. hang on.. those shoes I got @ Oxfam on Fulham Road, near the Cinema, last summer.. for £12..



Yup. Could be Separated at Birth. They seem to be real snakeskin, and the 'zebra' seems to be real fur, too.. the logo is in script and seems to be 'first time' or 'first line'.. anyway, they were so not me, but I love them, and as soon as I figure out how to keep the heel stuck to my feet, I'm wearing those babies!

case closed!

Okay, some of you might recall the lovely Lucy, who was out with Wallace when I dotted them on Gloucester Road way back on the 24th of March. It was a cold day and she was mostly in black, with a great, bit grey flannel type bag, and had these sweet pumps in the kind of nude pink we're all looking forward to wearing lots more of come real spring. I was having trouble sourcing them.

Well Lucy has just got in touch! She DID get them at Liberty - at the Christmas sale - and the brand is Solea. You all probably know about this, but I'd never heard of them. According to Lucy, they're quite common - she might have seen them at Harrods, too. They're sold at Kurt Geiger online, but not that exact style. The ones shown here are the Sindy Pink Courts*, supposedly were £119 ($222 USD) but now the extraordinary price of £19- must be a typo!

* http://www.kurtgeiger.com/online-shop/15367-solea-sindy

But I still like Lucy's best. Guess we'll have to hold out for eBay, or Oxfam.

The weird thing is, this all happened while Mr. Dot & I were watching rented DVDs of the Wire. It's all quite.. mysterious.