{"id":29454,"date":"2015-06-03T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=29454"},"modified":"2015-06-04T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:35:46","slug":"rounding-up-interesting-shoe-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/rounding-up-interesting-shoe-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoes in Magazines, on TV and on Restaurant Tables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gladiator sandals<\/a> really are<\/em> the shoe of the moment. After writing about them in yesterday’s post<\/a>, I spotted them in today’s New York Observer.<\/p>\n

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Click to read on the Observer’s website.<\/p><\/div>\n

This look is going to be wildly overdone this season, but I’m going to take advantage of its pervasiveness and stock up on styles so I have them to wear when the gladiators disappear from stores again. After all, I spent 30 years longing for a new version of the sandals I loved to death in 1985.<\/p>\n

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My 1985 gladiators on the beach. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking of yesterday’s post and shoes, I can’t believe I forgot to include this photo of the way our fritters were served at Jaleo at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Dafuq?! Click to see on my Instagram.<\/p><\/div>\n

I couldn’t bring myself to eat anything out of this shoe, especially after I touched it and confirmed that it wasn’t some decorative faux-shoe centerpiece but an actual sneaker. (We did consider ordering more fritters to see if we’d get the left sneaker so we’d have a proper pair.) The Cosmopolitan has advertised that it offers “Just the Right Amount of Wrong<\/a>” but I’d say Jaleo has exceeded its host and gone boldly into “wrong amount of wrong” territory here.<\/p>\n

On my way home from Vegas, I read June’s Elle and came across these white lace boots by Altuzarra.<\/p>\n

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From Elle’s “Nick of Time” feature.<\/p><\/div>\n

My reaction is best illustrated by the last frame of this cat meme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Like gladiator sandals, lace-up boots (and lace) were MAYJAH in the 1980s, with Madonna repping both. I previously wrote about the look here<\/a>, mentioning the then-very-hot Peter Fox brand. These Altuzarras look soooo Peter Fox to me. The only pair of Foxes I owned looked more like this, though mine were leather and suede and had a lower heel.<\/p>\n

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Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

In my last bit of shoe news, my father, GeorgeB, called me yesterday from his Apple Watch. I was his first watch call! But I told him I wasn’t going to be impressed until he called me from a shoe phone like the one used in the 1960s television show Get Smart<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Don Adams as Agent Maxwell Smart in Get Smart. Click for a clip.<\/p><\/div>\n

So he did!<\/p>\n