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For Spring 2010 Ready To Wear, the "hip" designers went with casual and chunky footwear. Even delicate dressy outfits were paired with dark clunky booties or sandals. If you are an avant-garde dresser, try these edgy looks from Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Balmain, and Givenchy.
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Some sandals look like booties and vice versa. You will see them arbitrarily classified in either categories when shopping online! Well, it really doesn't matter what they are called so long as you have a pair, right? Here are some examples of these sandal-booties from Dolce & Gabbana, Chloé, Gianfranco Ferré, and Gucci.
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For Spring 2010 Ready To Wear, Prada, Haider Ackermann, Fendi, and Marc Jacobs showed different styles of sandals - some were casual and some had dressier looks. It seems that you can wear all of them with any outfit so you only need to decide which look is for you.
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Booties have moved from being a winter staple into a summer staple. Some summertime booties are made of lighter materials, like the ones from Nina Ricci and Dolce & Gabbana (see picture below) and some of them have spring pastel colors. However, in some extreme cases, designers put winter booties on their Spring 2010 Ready To Wear models; see the Louis Vuitton booties below. If you decide to go for the winter-booties look for the summer, you'll need a pair of outstanding booties! Please don't you pull out your winter UGGs and wear them with your summer frock!
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If you have winter booties for the summer wardrobe, then, how about knee-high boots? Yes, there were some of that too in the Spring 2010 Ready To Wear shows. Take a look at these boots from runways of Dsquared2, Versace, Gareth Pugh, and D & G.
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What? Sandals over socks on the Spring 2010 Ready To Wear runways? Yes, we had that too. Some models wore thick socks and some wore fine hosiery. In some cases, the socks made the sandals look like boots! (If thick socks are worn, do you need a larger size sandal?) Here are some sandals-with-socks looks from Burberry Prorsum, Christian Dior, and Dolce & Gabbana. The Alexander Wang model was probably wearing leg warmers with her sandal-booties.
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Many Spring/Summer 2010 sandals (or shoes) have ankle cuffs or long wrap-around straps. The strappy shoes look great with short shorts and minis. If you plan to get some shoes for the summer, get a pair that has ankle straps. Here are some examples of shoes or sandals with ankle straps from Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Balmain, and Fendi.
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More notes on shoes in Spring 2010 Ready To Wear collections...
- Prada went with more traditional-looking shoes. The Prada shoes were see-through so they made the models' legs look really long!
- Chanel went with clogs for its Spring/Summer 2010 look. Sometimes, hosiery with criss-cross patterns were worn to give an impression of lace-up clogs.
- Alexander McQueen had the most unusual footwear, which looked like booties (not sure how comfortable they are though).
- Like Bottega Veneta, many shoes in the Spring 2010 Ready To Wear collections had wedge heels.
See these shoe examples in the following picture.
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The prices for summer shoes vary but there is such a big selection. For example, you don't need to spend big bucks to get a pair of really nice sandals; but you do have to make sure that you won't be getting blisters from wearing them. Here are some websites to shop for your summer shoes.
- luisaviaroma.com
- Barneys New York
- Net-A-Porter
- Neiman Marcus
- Saks Fifth Avenue
- Bloomingdale's
- Macy's
- Outnet.com
- Jimmy Choo (new arrival, sale)
Read my other post on How to wear booties.
Jan 23, 2010
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