The Sneaker Shoe

I was on the bus on the way to somewhere and I remember this lady was sitting opposite me wearing an orange coat and had dark brown hair with a heavy fringe but it was her footwear that I was staring at. She had on a pair of black canvas plimsoll wedges. If you know this woman or are that woman, please get in touch LOL, sounds like Crime Watch.

Back to the shoes, you know the canvas plimsoll that made a HUGE comeback (I think if there was ever a comeback last year it was the plimsoll!)? Well it was those with a high wedge heel on them, kinda like those Dries Van Noten ones seen on Victoria Beckham.

I should have asked her where she got them but alas, I never and now it haunts me! I've been trying ever since to find something similar but have only found things that I wouldn't be seen dead in (no offence to others that like them, just my personal tastes!). Keds got my hopes up when I read that they were making a pair - again certainly not what I was looking for at all! Not even going to bother by putting up a pic of those, it'll just upset me. To go off track for a minute, I don't think I'm any good at searching for things on stuff like Google and eBay. I get discouraged after trying a couple of things in order to find what I want and I give up annoyed.

Anywho, my love for the sneaker-stroke-shoe has continued to develop. Both my sis & I wanted a pair from KG that were in the Christmas sale...they've well and truly gone. But I was in Nine West in January and saw a very similar pair to the KG ones. I like these as they are slightly more feminine and less bulky than the KG ones. They're selling for £65.00. On the site they only show the yellow ones although I remember there being at least 2 other colour options in store.

And then one day while at work, I was doing some shoe research for the boss when I came across these...

...I don't have the words to describe how badly I want these. Pierre Hardy has combined successfully everything I could have imagined the sneaker-stroke-shoe to be. This for me is the epitome of this genre of shoe. In a word they're BAD!