$82.95?
$78.95?
$73.95?
Not even close -- try $59.49, courtesy of Macy's $69.99 'Gotta Have It' sale price, a 15% in-store coupon and DC's blessed biannual tax-free holiday.*
True, by purchasing these sweet, round-toed patent leather slingbacks with wide, suede bow adornments, you'll in a way be helping to prop up the inevitably-going-to-implode house of cards that is Jessica Simpson's "career," but honestly, they're worth shouldering that guilt and even the inevitable ribbing you're sure to receive from your more lah-dee-dah, "I don't get why you just didn't just go to Saks" girlfriends.
These shoes may look relatively pedestrian, and yes, they may bear the signature of a blonde blowup doll that doesn't leave the house without a thick shredding of Big Leauge Chew and a clip-on weave who wears and designs head-shaking fare like this and these, respectively, but you have to understand, despite all that bad, these shoes are the first and only pair I've ever found at a reasonable price-point that have a stem-skinny heel, a relatively rich-looking (and feeling) patent leather, a well-adhered bow in a contrasting fabric and an exaggeratedly round round-toe lead.
And just off the top of my head, I'm confident they'll nicely complement a pencil skirt, a-line skirt, classy-sexy for-Fall mini skirt, stovepipe trousers, wide-leg trousers, colored skinny jeans, dressy short shorts, slim city shorts, cap-sleeved sheath, slight cap-sleeved sheath, short-sleeved sheath, mock-neck sheath, sleeveless sheath, wrap dress, fuller-coverage cocktail dress and pretty much anything else you could throw at 'em.
So if you're in the market for an inexpensive, prim, office-appropriate, wardrobe-versatile pump, liberate one of those "15% off one item" coupons you know you've stuffed somewhere, strut your stuff over to the closest Macy's and snap up a pair of Jessica Simpson's 'Howard' slingbacks.
"But Mum, you can't wear budget shoes to the Blessing of the Dogs -- what will the Kalorama contingent think?"
