Category: Shoes

Shopping for Shoes

I get a lot of questions through email or in the comments of my posts and I usually answer them individually but this one was going to be a long answer so I thought I’d post it and hope that it’s helpful for others as well!

Lo asks: where do you shop for shoes?. I’m in the south, so we have a few specialty stores where we can get Stuart Weitzman and the like but do you order online. If you do what your experience been?

Hi Lo! Although I’d rather purchase my shoes in a retail store as I love being pampered by my sales associates, I do shop for shoes online frequently. I rely heavily on customer reviews for online stores so I’m glad that you asked this question. I am happy to share!

Here are the ones I frequent the most:
Endless – Although they don’t have the higher end shoes that I typically buy, they have great selection and you can’t beat FREE overnight shipping and returns. I also like the way they organize things and you can select by size, color, heel height, etc… I have yet to have a bad experience with them.

Zappos – Fantastic selection. I like that they have a Couture section now. They have a ton of brands that I usually only see a few styles at the store but Zappos has all the styles. I am particularly fond of Alexander McQueen shoes and they are the only place that I can see the collection. Free Shipping and Returns is also an added bonus. Oh and it says that shipping takes 4-5 days but I think almost every time I’ve ordered, they’ve upgraded me to overnight shipping. I only wish they would get in my staple brands like Jimmy Choo.

Neiman Marcus and Saks – I’m grouping these together because I usually find the same styles here. If I’m looking for a pair of shoes and one doesn’t have my size, I can usually find it on the other site. This is where I buy my Jimmy Choo’s, Gucci’s, Louboutin’s etc… Shipping and Returns are meh-okay only. The wait time for shipping can be excruciating long sometimes but other times it ships quickly. I hate the waiting game of online ordering. Sometimes you can score great designer shoes on sale but you have to be quick because their sizes go out fast.

Eluxury – Great brands. They have a lot of styles that I never get to see in stores. Not a fan of the high shipping cost ($13.95 for most things). Return policy (60 days) is alright. I like places that just have automatic return labels that you just stick in the mail. They require you to go to USPS/FedEx, etc. to return it.

For shopping in retail stores my best tip is to befriend the sales associates. They will do wonders for you. I rarely buy my designer shoes full price. The only ones I do are the ones like the Louboutins below that I know will never go on sale. I have specific sales associates at certain stores that will tell me when and what is going on sale. If I don’t have a sales associate that I always buy from then I just ask any sales associate if they know when the next sale is. If the sale is close my next question is if they know what is going to be on sale. Most of the time they do. I’ve had sales associates walk around the floor with me and told me to pick out which shoes I want and they’d check if they were going to be on sale or sometimes they just bring out all the shoes of the brands that I like in my size. I do most of my sale shopping this way as I don’t have to fight the crowds and I get first pick of my small shoe size. It is a win win situation for both me and the sales person!

Hope my shoe shopping tips have helped! Now go out and buy some shoes! 😉

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New Shoes!

it’s been some time since I’ve shared my shoe purchases so here we go with two of my recent faves…

My new Diors

I love every single little detail of these shoes. From the straps to the dots, to the mixture of the black and white and even the funky curve of the heel. J’adore Dior!

I have professed my love for gray shoes before and never have I found the most perfect pair of light gray patent leather heels.
They were mine the minute I laid eyes on them.

Both are good for work and play. The Diors are a bit hard to walk in but they sure do look pretty and that’s all that matters to me!

all images by me

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decisions decisions

So you know once you buy your dress, you pretty much stop looking? Well, that was me. Same with my shoes. I’ve been buying shoes like crazy but not looking for wedding shoes. And then I stumbled upon these lovelies on Lovely Morning. And I am torn.

Here are mine (the ones I wore to our courthouse ceremony as well)

and here are the new contenders.

Oh the decisions to make.

Images:
Gucci’s by me
Choo’s from net-a-porter.

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Lookbook: Legally Married

Post author By tiffany
Post date September 10, 2008
23 Comments on Lookbook: Legally Married

First of all, I really wanted to say thank you for all my readers and commenters leaving me such sweet comments about us getting married and our ceremony. I haven’t had time to comment back like I usually do but I appreciate every one of your comments! Several of you have asked about the dress so of course I had to do a lookbook on what we wore.

I literally bought this dress about 2 hours before we headed to the courthouse. I had ordered a dress from Shopbop.com that I thought would work, but it didn’t. It also didn’t arrive until the day before, so my only choice was to go shopping the day of. We went to every single store/boutique that downtown had to offer and ended up loving this one the most.

What I’m Wearing:
Dress: BCBG
Shoes: Gucci

What He’s Wearing:
Suit: Banana Republic
Shirt: Lova
Shoes: Hugo Boss

J bought this suit just a few days before so we were both sporting brand new duds. (Can you expect anything less from us?) I went into a frenzy trying to find sliver shoes to go with this dress until it hit me that my Gucci’s that I was saving for our wedding were sitting in my closet. Well, I was going to get married that day, so why not break them out! They have such pretty rhinestones that glittered in the sunlight.

Doesn’t J look great in his Lova shirt that I had posted about previously? We recently made a change and bought him a new shirt to wear to the wedding in Jamaica so he decided to wear this one for the ceremony. It looked so great with his new suit.

I kept the jewelry simple and clean, with sparkly bangles, a cocktail ring and hoop earrings.

I thought about pulling my hair back with a flower or some kind of embellishment but decided that it just wasn’t me and didn’t want to not look like me on the day we got married.

I had my brother take pictures of us and then I noticed that he wasn’t capturing our shoes so I yelled at him to make sure that he got them. J decided to be funny and really make sure that you could see my shoes.

This was taken on the deck of the courthouse that I mentioned previously. You can’t see the view but the deck is huge, isn’t it?

So that, my friends is what we wore to get legally married. It was basically like what we are going to wear to our wedding but just toned down.

Oh and Miss Burb brought up a good point about what we are actually celebrating as our anniversary. I told J that he better buy a good calendar because he’s going to have to remember 3 anniversaries. Our ceremony, our wedding and our first date. HA! Like that’s going to happen. I think that we are just going to go with the ceremony date as our anniversary since this is when we really became husband and wife. How did you/are you going to do it? Did you all forego the “first date” anniversary? I think eventually we will but I can’t let it go now. How could we? We’ve celebrated it for the past 7 years!