Shoegeoisie

My dress was so cheap (even after I made the budget-busting move of changing the ribbon color from royal to midnight blue, gasp!) that I had thought to spend some ducats on a sweet pair of shoes, something fancypants that I would be able to wear more than once and continue to admire from afar (not unlike the Fluevogs I got in Ashland during Doctor Jones' wedding festivities, for example) again and again in all the long years to come. Would I dare go so far as a Choo or a Blahnik? You know me, so the answer is: Obviously not. However, I wouldn't turn away a good pair of Chanel or Weitzman or similar finery on the sale rack at Nordstrom or maybe even Saks (maybe).

One small problem with my shoe-fetishistic plan of going shopping for an expensive bargain: I have no time. Well, two problems: One, I have no time, and two, I have this fucked up toe that needs fixing and needs even more to not to be busted out in the light of day until after such fixery (which will happen this week and which will apparently be costing upwards of seven times the pricetag for fixing the same damn toe in an Urgent Care in Ventura five years ago - of course it never quite looked right after that and clearly needs to be done again, so maybe you get what you pay for? whatever, anyway...). So public shoe shopping spree not really on the docket for your favorite bride up here in Stumptown. Add to the complications: I've been advised to go with creamy/ivory/similar-to-my-dress-color tones, rather than easy-to-find pewter/silvery stuff. (In part, I've been informed, because my dress is a more buttery/creamy shade of warm off-white, not the blueish/cool bent of a more eggshell or ivory white, and therefor might not mesh as well with silver as with golden tones, etc etc etc. Gold doesn't work for my thematic goings one, really, so that's off the table anyway). After hearing this, I admit I fretted for longer than necessary about what kind/color/shape/height/color/color/color shoe I would or wouldn't be able to find, and how would I make this happen in the few weeks we have left, etc.

But then lovely Ren-bird turned me on to Endless.com and voila, a shoe-shopper was (re)born. On their way to me now are the following:


Love t-straps, but don't love pointy and could do without the rhinestones.

And these babies, which I adore, and pray to the wedding gods of Easy Peasy Lemon & Squeezey that they will work as perfectly as I imagine them to in my mind:I love them beyond all reason. And ps they are only like $50 bux. And they have them in a lovely mauve and a gorgeous blue (hint hint). Check em out if you have a chance. In the meantime, I'll let you know how this works out. They should arrive tomorrow, in time for my final dress fitting (which reminds me to tell you to remind me to tell you of the horrible strapless bra hunt shopping experience I suffered through on Saturday. blurgh).

So that's that for the moment. Long live Imelda in our hearts and closets.

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This wedding is ABSURD. Ridic. Out of control.

But check the Maiden dresses, y'all. (((shiver of glory shudders through my body)))

Seriously? Look at 'em close up:

Probably more fifties than anything, but look at the glorious, rich colors all together! Blue, green, teal, purpley! Yes! Love love love super love with all kinds of lovins on top.

I would also commit a very serious crime or two for that GD bridal gown, Jesus H. Wowza.

random etsy finds that speak to me, loud enough to drown out the crowd all up in there.

In which we will discover that Etsy has a) lots of weird stuff and b) a ton o ruffles, which c) I apparently have a secret affinity for - who knew?




English Rose Ruffle Dress by Lirola. Reminds me of stuff that the wee Portland girl from Project Runway was doing before she moved to NYC. And yeah, I know there are very few people who could actually get away with this ruffled front. I didn't say the things speaking to me made any sense, now did I?



Ditto on the Project Runway girl comment for this blue number, too. It has a weird pleat on the skirt that probably wouldn't lend itself to easy hang-n-wear, but whatever. Is cute.



The bottom is a little culotte-esque, but the top is rad.



Long ruffled skirt from Econica. Completely infatuated with it, I am not afraid to admit.



$225 worth of peacock-colored awesome. (Swoon).





LOVE. Period.

Fancy change 'em up dresses.

I've not wanted to admit this, but I'm WAY partial to the crazy 46millionwaystowrapit dresses. I keep coming back to them on Etsy. I will throw it out there, and you can tell me if I'm crazy or if you would have to be crazy to be forced to wear such a straight jacket, etc etc.

I mean, come on, look at this blue (not my favorite wrap, but a great blue!):

Also a fan of this blue-ishness, and the wrap style:

See more examples here, here and here. And here.

They look so effing comfortable, right? But maybe hard to vintage up. I don't know. Definitely not a good fabric match with my dress, I don't think (well, maybe... not sure. Actually, no no, it would be totally fine).

But whatever. Bottom line: they look so pretty and comfy that I just want to nap in them, looking gorgeous all the while.