Mine are gathering dust under the bed somewhere…have you seen yours this winter?

I was originally really dubious as to whether I could embrace the shoe-boot phenomenon.  I was wearing these babes in the eighties when they were romantically named the ‘pixie boot’ And that’s what they did – made you look short.  Meanwhile the long boot was my lust of choice and they had to be long – not over the knee/merry men style but Polo riding and gorgeous grenadier guards in full flight – you know how the way the knee just bends out of the top into firm thigh, ready to spring into action, mud flying, muscles quivering…I think I need to get this out of my system…

Sigh. The long boot doesn’t sit on your calf at the widest part of your lower leg – it elongates and accentuates…I’m slipping again..Mr Darcy and Pride and prejudice is coming to me in waves…

Forsooth, I must apologies, as Jane Austen wrote herself – ‘A lady’s imagination is very rapid’…and to return to the aforesaid subject. These are my favourites:

Good square heel, that particular tan colour – almost orangey with a nod to the seventies, great with skinny jeans, fab with cut off denim minis, could dress down a silk dress – they were the staple of my winter wardrobe…my first large purchase when I had some money to burn…but like the large bumble bee, they are all but gone…replaced by these:

Look through all the online shoe sites – the long boot is a rare beast – I’ve heard tell of a come back next season – but I can’t feel it in my waters yet, instead the object of present desire are these by Tabitha Simmons at Creatures of the Wind:

Already flagged on two great blogs – at Garance Dore and ManRepeller  – and you know when something is in the air.. see it on one Blog……and then it gets mentioned again….and there is an inevitability… an immediate attraction – it’s the elegant sibling of what we’ve all been living in – the jushed jooshed  jouzched  – damn it, juzzsched? up version   the wild woman of the night, the eloquent taxi shoe for glam nights and elicit cocktails.  Yum.

But I can take a step back – this has reminded me not to forsake my old faithfuls entirely  – which pair will get me to the school run and back again, year after year? And perhaps with a little boot polish and some elbow grease, I’ll actually be ahead of the game…

Laters, Kate x