The Booties Are Hawt!
By Manolo the ShoebloggerManolo says, behold, the new fashion trend has gripped the nation to it’s bosom.
Why are New York women wearing ankle boots?
“Because we follow trends,” said Maya Beaumier, 18, a college freshman who was hanging out on University Place last Friday night, clad in flat black ankle boots with black leggings and scrubby denim shorts.
“Yeah, we’re followers!” said her friend Maureen Flanagan, also an 18-year-old freshman and also wearing little zip-up ankle boots [...]
The coeds have done their homework. Ankle boots are, in fact, the shoe of the year. (They’re also known as “booties,” but because that word sounds like two different slang terms plus one type of children’s footwear, we’re not going to use it.)
The abbreviated boots can snuggle into the bottom of a pair of skinny jeans like a screw, or cap off a long bare leg like a shiny black cherry. And many are wearing them with shorts and tights, for a kind of cute elf look (it makes sense, since these days, only Santa Claus is hiring). Works if you’re under 30.
Ankle boots can be flat or stiletto (like Jennifer Lopez’s 5.5-inch YSLs); sleek or baroque; buckled (like the witchy red ones strapped on by Kate Bosworth recently), zipped or both. Earthy mauve and camel ankle boots exist, but the up-to-date option is clearly the kind that make you look like a sexy Martian.
So you wish to be the “sexy Martian,” like this, perhaps?
Or, perhaps not.
Sexy Martian girls, aside, the Manolo is himself is the fan of the latest ankle booties. Indeed, after several seasons in which the couture shoes have become increasingly outlandish, perhaps it is time for something fresh.
And yet, who wishes to be the “follower” of trends, for despite the assurances of 18-year-old coeds everywhere, not every style is suitable for everyone, especially for the smart, independent lady of the particular age.
And yet again, ankle booties are tres fun, and so you naturally wish to find the pair that works, but you must also find the pair that does not make you look ridiculous. Ayyy! Such trouble!
Fear not, internet friends, for the Manolo is here to help you find booties that are both au courant, and yet suitable for those who are not the sexy, bubbleheaded, teenaged, Martian coeds.
Look! Here is the serious suede ankle bootie from Gravati
Perhaps, these are too intellectual and somber for you, in which case the Manolo tells you to whoop it up, with these platform booties, the Whoop from Stuart Weitzman.
Or, maybe these, the Lily Boot from Kate Spade.
Ankle booties, trendy, stylish, and fun. What is there not to like?
November 13th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I lust after these python boots from Pedro Garcia, but they are £330 in the UK so unless they go in the sale, they’re a definite no. Still, aren’t they pretty?
http://www.bluefly.com/Pedro-Garcia-black-python-Christy-ankle-boots/cat510024/301218001/detail.fly
November 14th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Seriously, this is my year. I have adored shoeboots ever since puberty, when I had such a crush on Robin (of “Batman and”). My habit of walking a minimum of five miles a day, however, demands that I forgo the more superfantastic in favour of the merely fab for day-to-day wear. Fortunately, there are plenty of options, not all of whom will have to be put away next year. The great thing about shoeboots is if they can’t see your calves, they can’t tell what they are, really, so they never get old.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Uuhhhhhooohhhh. They look like elf shoes.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Heh. La BellaDonna, she has the weakness for the elf boots, so she does not mind that at all!
November 14th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I have a Sommer & Kaufmann shoe catalog from 1929. “Bootees” were “all the craze”. Also, animal textures like alligator, python and lizard. All the old trends become new again. :)