{"id":7397,"date":"2010-10-06T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T04:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2010-10-05T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T02:59:15","slug":"lace-up-like-vintage-madonna-and-wendyb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/lace-up-like-vintage-madonna-and-wendyb\/","title":{"rendered":"Lace Up Like Vintage Madonna (and WendyB)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got vintage music style on my mind this week: first, Janis Joplin<\/a>, then Debbie Harry<\/a>. Now, the lace-up booties and mid-calf granny boots I’m seeing are reminding me of Madonna’s 1985 footwear.<\/p>\n

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Madonna's shoes. Click for full photo by Ebet Roberts.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Madonna's shoes. Click for full photo by Dave Hogan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Barneys has a cut-out style by L’Wren Scott that’s a higher-heeled, gray version of the black Peter Fox booties I had in ’85.<\/p>\n

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Click to buy at Barneys.<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t know if Madonna wore Peter Fox shoes but I wouldn’t be surprised if she had — why else would I have been so desperate for a pair of my own? My feet grew a little after I got the Peter Fox shoes so I gave them away a few years ago. I regret doing that without trying to get them stretched first. I have fond memories of how they looked with my black rubber Maripolitan bangles<\/a> and heart-locket Borderline earring.<\/a> At least I have a not-quite-as-vintage pair of Prada lace-ups<\/a> to fall back on.<\/p>\n

Considering my devotion to Madonna, I’m amazed I never got her rhinestone boots from Desperately Seeking Susan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Madonna ogles the movie boots. Click for photo source.<\/p><\/div>\n

The boots play a key part in the movie. Cool downtown girl Susan (Madonna) is so entranced by the sight of the boots in the window of the (now-closed) Love Saves the Day<\/a> that she trades her pyramid jacket for them. Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette<\/a>) gets the jacket and is mistaken for Susan. Hipster hilarity ensues while Madonna wears the boots rolled down.<\/p>\n

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The $49.99 version was pre-rolled<\/a>. Why didn’t I get those? I will have to console myself with the ’80s studded boots that my gorgeous mother BarbaraB turned over to me.<\/p>\n

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I featured these in my post on why criticism of fashion is sexist. Click!<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, if you’d like a pair of Victorian-style lace-ups — all the better to channel 1985 Madonna (and me) — you can still get them from Peter Fox.<\/p>\n

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Click to buy at Peter Fox.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Click to buy at Peter Fox.<\/p><\/div> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got vintage music style on my mind this week: first, Janis Joplin, then Debbie Harry. Now, the lace-up booties and mid-calf granny boots I’m seeing are reminding me of Madonna’s 1985 footwear. Barneys has a cut-out style by L’Wren Scott that’s a higher-heeled, gray version of the black Peter Fox booties I had in…<\/p>\n

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