Working at Cross Purposes

Remember my second favorite outfit from SATC: The Movie? What? You don't have that list memorized???

Okay, to jog your memory, it's this Proenza Schouler outfit...



I especially liked her sandals. A bit chunky, graphic, a little nautical in there, strappy but not delicate.



All of the images I've seen of these shoes are as above - with the ankle strap and instep strap configuration. But all of the movie images show them on Carrie as having crossed straps. This leads me to believe that they simply cross-buckled the straps. Top strap attached to the bottom buckle and bottom buckled to top.

Clever, huh?



Well, I'm going to test that theory out, because, while the snakeskin covered heel version is nowhere to be found, I did score the brown leather version on sale (thank you again, Barneys!)

Sometimes I love having an off shoe size!




I hope I don't scrape myself up on the heel studs.



I didn't expect the straps to be leather. They looked more canvas but I guess I was wrong.







I hope the straps fit in the cross pattern. It will be like having two shoes in one.

Merry Merry Marc

YEAH!



I am so excited! I just saw these Marc Jacobs canvas mary janes available online and had to get them. They are a size six so I really hope that they won't be too terribly big.



These canvas mary janes were out a few years ago and I passed them by. I totally regretted it then and now they're back just for meeeee!

How could I have resisted a description like this:

Plot a return to your schoolgirl roots with Marc's brilliantly hued Mary Jane. The red-and-pink canvas, blue rubber sole and rounded toe add throwback details, while the chunky high heel and shapely ankle strap create a very chic, grown-up finish. Textured red canvas canvas with pink piping and blue rubber sole Ankle strap with square buckle.

What was I thinking?

I am crossing my fingers until they arrive. Please, please, please let them fit!