>>  Seriously, blow them off.  Don't have anything to do with them.  I don't care if they were on the Chanel runway for spring (right), they're ugly.  I don't care if you can get them for a decent price at Urban Outfitters, they're not flattering. 

Oh boy do I feel a bad spring trend coming on -- I feel like I'm starting to see these skinny cutoffs everywhere in stores.  All I can do is hope that this trend won't be of white prairie skirt caliber.

>>  Have I got a shoe for your tiny little feet (size 6.5, to be exact) -- the most copied shoe from the sixties, the very shoes that Mme Deneuve wears in Belle de Jour... Roger Vivier's gorgeous patent leather pilgrim pumps.  And they're on ebay.  Ever since I saw the pilgrim-inspired shoes in Melodie Wolf's Fall/Winter 2006 collection, it's been a minor obsession of mine.  But these are the original -- and you can't get much better than that.