ART shoes - have I died and gone to shoe heaven?

[NotanOtter]

why has no one ever told me about them before?

I asked someone where she got her clogs today and have come home a googled

WOW

I hate ballet pumps too - nasty thin soles and forever slipping off. And they really pong after a day or two.

plus ballet pumps are incredibly impractical. I wouldn't wear them to ride my bike or down the allotment.

And they get manky looking really quickly. Leave 'em to the sodding ballerinas I say.

i like a wacky shoe as much as the next person, but costume nationale, surely, not these?

they look like something The Borrowers might have worn.

I like ballet pumps..... and I like slighty wacky shoes...

but which is the best???

FIIIIIIGHT!!!

and I thought the art ones were expensive!

oh yes, CN ones are strictly sale only ime. but nice, yes?

these are the most beautiful shoes ever

at fight

and at the first few rows of CN - they do look like national costume, as in the type that might be worn by very camp armed forces

lol.

and really, dolly, you think they're beautiful? well, this thread is enlightening i must say on the 'takes all sorts' front.

i've just been assuming that most people i see around town thought their shoes were alright, it's never occurred to me that some are swooning over shoes i think look awful.

MailDail go on put link to your fav shoes

I like these Moshulus

Not keen on the loafer styles, I think you have to be quite young and gamine to get away with them, I would just look like er, a big ol' loafer or something.

Before I got married, my mum gave me some money to buy something nice to wear to get married in.

I spent it on a pair of Art boots.

Enormous, clumpy, purple ones with lots of buckles.

I didn't wear them to my wedding in the end, as it was July and my feet would have been too hot.

10 years later, I still wear them in the winter.

i like loads of things, some fausto santini, some i hate, some costume nationale, some i hate, some converse, some adidas, some blundstone, i don't think i swoon over entire ranges tbh.

Ooh how I wish I'd known about MN when I was doing the PR for Art - what a funny debate.

I don't understand why some are saying they look middle aged and for grannys. Where the hell do you all live that grannys wear shoes like those????? Don't get me wrong, I do think some of them are very odd and a bit European-ey .... but middle aged????? And yet the ones I asked advice about earlier on the thread are too childish looking... make your bleedin minds up.

And sorry Dollytwat, those coloured shoes are hid-eee-ous.

Agree re ballet pumps... they come off while I walk.

well, i still like them regardless, puppy, i think the ones you linked to are nice, wouldn't choose them myself, but like you say, a good alternative to birkenstocks, which i can't get on with as have very narrow feet and i find birkie's far too wide.

middle aged is the wrong way to describe them, neither my mum or my grandma would wear shoes like that, i would (but then, i'm almost 40, does that make me middle aged then?? )

i would describe them as quirky. they are unusual, not to everyone's taste, like marmite, you either like them or you don't. and i like quirky shoes. would have been tampted if i hadn't already just ordered these, in camel.

Well, I like those too lucykate so there!

i have those fly ones in cream - this is their third summer actually
so glad to have fellow art fans!

Oooh I can't be doing with those Art things but have just taken delivery of 1st ever pair of Fly sandals, after seeing peopel go on about them on here.

Wasn't convinced but they are bloody gorgeous and so well made. I love 'em.

notanotter, it's taken me about 3 weeks to decide which colour to get, i was going from red to cream to brown and back again dithering, went for camel in the end. that is the most i have ever paid for a pair of shoes, even my fly london mols were only £40 after the great office shoes/fly london thread debacle!

argh!

am desperate for a new pair of Arts!

Car needs a clutch instead....

For Londoners who like Art shoes: there's a shop in London on Oxford Street, called Walk, that sells them. At the moment they have a special offer whereby if you buy one pair you get another pair half price. That's on most the shoes in the shop, not just the Art shoes.