These shoes are Prada, long recognized for style-setting Italian fashion. They cost just under $1,000 (that's retail, which of course I never pay, but let's assume someone does).
To me, they look like like a designer version of the flip flops you get at an expensive spa: As you can see, the model has had a pedicure, and is still undergoing the patented Rejuvenating Ankleology
-->™ treatment that will give her irresistible sex appeal below the knee.
I just don't get the ankle-wrap thing...it verges suspiciously on the edge of nerdly socks-with-sandals. Also, those pretty pink bows will last for two seconds on the street, even if the only time the wearer's feet touch said street is on the way to her Town Car.
Or am I totally wrong? If you are the sharing sort, let me know in the comments, or just think your brilliant thoughts and beam them through the ectoplasm to moi.
*A fashionable friend who is a native Californian once said to me, "oh, you must be from the East Coast. Who else shops at Bloomingdale's?"
