Get It Together: Footwear

A recent trip to the shoe department at Bloomingdale's struck fear into the hearts of the Aesthetes. There are a few things going horribly wrong these days. This year, Marc by Marc Jacobs has decided that providing the public with a normal fashionable boot is not enough. Apparently there was some sort of outcry for a boot that looked like a shoe with a phantom knee sock coming out of it? And more breaking news in the world of the unnecessary, can anyone tell us when rain boots became the new status item?


We thought the $200 rubber rain boot was the most ridiculous thing we'd ever seen until we met his cousin.


The $300 rain boot.

And finally, Nanette Lepore has teamed up with Ked's.
Thank god. Because we weren't sure where we were going to purchase our Avril Lavigne meets Anna Nicole Smith sequined high tops. Whew.

Dear Stylist: Fergie Edition

Dear Stylist,

We're having some difficulties understanding what Fergie has been wearing lately. We realize celebrities cannot be left to their own devices but several choices you've made have perplexed us to the extent that we think you two have had a severe falling out. We can't fathom any other possibility for this particular brand of cruelty. We get the "dressed up in front row couture show Chanel" and the "I'm working out with Josh Duhawho? in the median of a random LA street in sweats" but several pressing questions have kept us up at night.

Who decided the Little Rascal's hats were a good idea?


Did you check your missed calls...? Because Avril Lavigne wants her bermuda shorts and suspenders back.


Um...what's with the really big hankie?


Until the likelihood ceases that your bad choices will assault our innocent eyes during otherwise innocuous MTV programming we respectfully ask that you leave poor Ms. Ferguson alone.

Yours truly,
the Aesthetes