From: AK Anne Klein (Lord&Taylor)
Purchased: May 2011
Cost: $32
Shoe-mageddon, which I still haven't covered, wiped out my black shoe collection. Really, I had a number of black shoes that were staples in my wardrobe that just had too much wear, and TSM did a great job encouraging me to discard them.
These hurt the most to discard - loved those sandals, but it was time. When I wrote about them, I said I needed a slightly dressier, lady-like pair to replace them, and in the late spring, I started seeing some candidates in Lord&Taylor ads. And so when a huge coupon coincided with a big shoe sale, plus an already planned trip to Friendship Heights, I was on a mission. Tried on 4 pairs of black peep toe slingbacks and settled on the ones pictured above. They're definitely dressier then the ones I discarded, which filled a niche of sandals-that-could-aspire-higher, but that niche is difficult and I needed the dressier shoe, since shoe-maggeddon also resulted in these going away, too. OK, yes, I still have these, but I feel like they're not quite the same - I bought leather (with patent accents), and that last link is all patent, plus I think not quite as, well, for want of a better descriptor, lady-like for full skirts.
I'm still on the hunt for a low-heel almost-sandal (kitten heel, maybe?) that can be worn with skirts, but I was, and am, super satisfied with this pair, especially at the bargain price I got.
Bottom line: keeper
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