on the street: studded python

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OK, I’m not saying I want these, though python has come up recently and will come up again soon (I got a bikini..and some other stuff…), but I was delighted to run into them. Also appreciating the chameleon-like effect going on between the shoes and the sun-dappled sidewalk.

Studding isn’t something I currently want in my life (and it’s annoyingly ubiquitous now…keep finding things I would like if only they hadn’t been studded to within an inch of their structural integrity) but I’m glad it’s out there, and I particularly like this example; studding not as embellishment on an otherwise normal, dreary or unremarkable item but as an additional outlandish touch to an item that was a bit outlandish to begin with.

Also, yes to high-tops. I haven’t had a pair since seventh grade (bright blue with Tweety bird on them, inexplicably) but maybe it’s time to revisit the look. I keep going back to this picture of Erykah Badu sporting an extra high number from Converse and it looks better each time. Better than any piece of Converse advertising I’ve ever seen. [Also, why do all of my jeans have their knees intact? It’s as if I didn’t even live through the 90s.] Sadly, this silhouette doesn’t seem to come in many colors. Isn’t it always the way? Going to keep thinking about it.

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on trend (me?!): white pumps

If I ever like a trend, it is usually years later, when it is no longer current. No longer trending. And it is usually by chance, as I never knew about the trend in the first place, and only stumbled upon something I liked. Or I have already liked the trend for years.

Sometimes discovering that something is a trend makes me like it less (depends, sometimes I like it more), though I mostly don’t care, and like what I like when I like it.

This non-system is working extremely well, I think.

I surprised myself, then, this season, in not only knowing about and liking but wishing to participate in the wearing of white pumps. Pointy ones! Which I don’t even like, typically, a pointed toe. Probably the quest for heels glazed the already slippery slope, but, well. I got some.

I inject a modicum of individuality by having chosen a python print. PYTHON. Which I then kept! Meaning I tried them on and thought: YES. THESE. ARE THE ONES. Better and better.

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Maiya pumps by Calvin Klein Jeans.

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It is sometimes strange what I end up liking, still more strange what I end up wanting, and outright bizarre what I ultimately acquire. Try giving yourself free reign and just see what you buy. Is it what you expected? Evidence of a somewhat tacky streak is accumulating, running parallel to a brazen streak…I watch the patterns emerge with curiosity.

I truly did not see these coming.