Maybe it’s just my screen resolution, but that shoe has a touch of the “trashy rural girl seeks a sophisticated city look” about it when I look at it. But you know, everyone has their statement to make, I guess!

Whoa…those shoes are…

…oi.

………Aha! All is now clear. They are indeed the semi-retro Hollywood glamour, designed for the aspiring starlet in her first big role as the feisty saloon girl with the heart of gold longing for a better life, but trapped in a rough, dusty. They are the shoes she wears when the doors swing open and she first glimpses our cowboy hero!

As for La Viatrix herself, she is torn: cannot decide whether she likes them or not! Her whimsical little heart finds a soft spot for them, perhaps because they might come with a wonderful cowboy hero of her own? Fortunately, the veto power is held by her significantly less whimsical and graduate student-sized pocketbook, and by the fact that the shoes of the saloon soundstage would not serve so well in the laboratory.

I think they’re cute, too! They’re evening shoes, fun shoes! Naturally you’d look stupid wearing them with a business suit, but with a very simple after-dark outfit, they’d be great.

Dare I say it? While I do think the shoe is cute, sadly, I also think that it would go well with the hideous flower festooned tooshie outfit that sent Angela packing.

they are so whimsical..i love em!