Oh Oscar...

I feel like you, Mr. De la Renta, are one of the last great designers left in the industry...but your name is painfully long so I am just going to call you OdlR from here on out. So, I just perused your Spring 2013 collection and I must say that I think the shoes are lovely! They have great color, feminine details, and they feel like SPRING! What a concept! 

2-toned Light Grey Patent Leather Eyelet Pumps
Oscar de la Renta, Spring 2013

Light coral-pink stain pumps with abstract floral toe detail
Oscar, Spring 2013

Light Grey Eyelet "Ankle-Wrap Sandal "
Oscar de la Renta, Spring 2013

I'm really not quite sure what to call this style of shoe. Is it a SANDAL? How much of the foot has to be covered to call a shoe a BOOTIE? I'll be waiting for a stern, abrasive, explanation from the Fashion Overlords any moment. Whatever it is it looks like fun to wear, with added wind/debris protection for my ankles...these will be my battle shoes when the Overlords come looking for me. Sandootie? Boodal? Whatever...

Absence...

...makes the heart forget and have to reset passwords. Seriously. Though a pair of shoes may linger in my mind for months, my blogger password flies out of my brain faster than I can wave goodbye to my tax refund at Neiman Marcus. I prefer to think of it as unburdening my wallet. Anywhooo...

Charleston
Brian Atwood

Do you see it? Someone else has to look at this shoe and see what I see....

Snuffleupagus.

Yeah, they trying to be very Cher circa her 70's Boho fabulousness, but all I see is..

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Maybe I'm crazy. I mean, the fringe would swing somethin' fierce...but I just know that all of my friends would be hyperventilaughing (when you laugh so hard you can't breathe and have to mindlessly dig in your purse for your rescue inhaler) as they make Sesame Street jokes at my expense. Sorry Brian, you are always a hoot. Blame it on my childhood, that's what the therapists do.