Tell me about Fluevog
Apr. 24th, 2012 05:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commodorifiedSo I have to say it; the Con Famous Shoes:
are not getting any younger (Yes, thank you, neither am I. "Shut up", she explained.) This might be their last WisCon.
I find myself VERY drawn to these:
They are gorgeous. They are funky. The heel makes me want to weep for joy. And they're close enough in style to the CFS that I am pretty sure I'd wear them a lot.
BUT:
1) They're one solid, not very summery, colour instead of a dark floral. There will be fewer things I can wear them with.
2) On sale, these are two hundred bucks. In my world, two hundred bucks is a lot of money for a pair of shoes.
3) I can be hard to fit, and unless the Toronto store has a pair in my size in stock and are willing to hold them for me on a credit card number until I get into town on a couple of weeks, I'd have to get them online.
4) If they don't fit, because they're a sale pair, I can exchange them for another size (assuming that the size I need can be located, and at my expense for shipping) or take store credit, but I can't get a refund. There is a very good chance that this ends in me putting out for a pair of not-on-sale Fluevogs to get the use out of my credit.
Talk to me...
ETA: OTOH these are kind of glorious, much more affordable (50 bucks), much more likely not to be a fit issue cause open heel, and since I'm going to the US for WisCon on account of that being where WisCon is, I can do the Order Three Return Two size dance with free shipping both ways...
And as much as those Fluevogs are a glorious piece of sculpture, they're not really replacements for the CFS as such. They're sort of their own thing.
I think maybe I'll just keep watching the Fluevog sales for boots. Unless someone inexplicably wants to be my Shoe Mama (or Papa)[1] , full price Fluevogs will continue to be A Thing That Happens To Other People, I think. *sad*
Daughter of ETA:
Ooh, there's a new kid (leather) in town...
At a VERY nice price. And no damned zipper. I hate zippers on boots.
Fluevogs are glorious pieces of sculpture and one day I will own a pair, but La Canadienne's stuff is utterly gorgeous in a totally different way.
[1] I wear a 9. Just sayin'.
are not getting any younger (Yes, thank you, neither am I. "Shut up", she explained.) This might be their last WisCon.
I find myself VERY drawn to these:
They are gorgeous. They are funky. The heel makes me want to weep for joy. And they're close enough in style to the CFS that I am pretty sure I'd wear them a lot.
BUT:
1) They're one solid, not very summery, colour instead of a dark floral. There will be fewer things I can wear them with.
2) On sale, these are two hundred bucks. In my world, two hundred bucks is a lot of money for a pair of shoes.
3) I can be hard to fit, and unless the Toronto store has a pair in my size in stock and are willing to hold them for me on a credit card number until I get into town on a couple of weeks, I'd have to get them online.
4) If they don't fit, because they're a sale pair, I can exchange them for another size (assuming that the size I need can be located, and at my expense for shipping) or take store credit, but I can't get a refund. There is a very good chance that this ends in me putting out for a pair of not-on-sale Fluevogs to get the use out of my credit.
Talk to me...
ETA: OTOH these are kind of glorious, much more affordable (50 bucks), much more likely not to be a fit issue cause open heel, and since I'm going to the US for WisCon on account of that being where WisCon is, I can do the Order Three Return Two size dance with free shipping both ways...
And as much as those Fluevogs are a glorious piece of sculpture, they're not really replacements for the CFS as such. They're sort of their own thing.
I think maybe I'll just keep watching the Fluevog sales for boots. Unless someone inexplicably wants to be my Shoe Mama (or Papa)[1] , full price Fluevogs will continue to be A Thing That Happens To Other People, I think. *sad*
Daughter of ETA:
Ooh, there's a new kid (leather) in town...
At a VERY nice price. And no damned zipper. I hate zippers on boots.
Fluevogs are glorious pieces of sculpture and one day I will own a pair, but La Canadienne's stuff is utterly gorgeous in a totally different way.
[1] I wear a 9. Just sayin'.
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Date: 2012-04-24 12:44 pm (UTC)Also, I have a pair of shoes from that same heel line. They are incredible to walk in.
(This is not to say that you have not made a good choice in passing on the Fluevogs for the La Canadiennes or what have you.)
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Date: 2012-04-24 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-25 02:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-24 01:02 pm (UTC)(I also have a pair of boots from the Angels line, and I would link to show you, but they're not available anymore. Woe.)
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Date: 2012-04-24 08:49 pm (UTC)Those are some damn nice boots.
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Date: 2012-04-24 09:59 pm (UTC)ETA: Yikes. They use USA shoe sizing. I hate USA shoe sizing more than any other shoe sizing system in existence. In Japan, a 25.5 always fits (if I can find it). In European sizes, a 40 almost always fits, though sometimes a 40.5 or 39.5 is required. In UK sizes, it's 6.5 or 7.
In USA shoes it's anything from 8 to 10.5 and that's just women's, men's/unisex can be anything from 6.5 to 8. WHY. The USA shoe size system should be buried under six feet of rock and then nuked from orbit just to be sure.
La Canadienne looks... not my style. The fact that they have boots with the toes cut out on the front page probably contributes greatly to this perception, but the other boots don't look like me either.
I hate the look of zippers on boots but given my ginormous calves I can deal with them if I have to.
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Date: 2012-04-25 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-25 04:30 pm (UTC)I own one pair of Fluevogs (on sale) and they are part of my steampunk kit. I am on the hunt for some nice cream short boots of the Victorian persuasion.