31 December 2009
easy spirit
Filed under for fashion's sake
THE SHOES!! (well, a few of them anyway)
First of all, the name rocks- if I could change the name of my brand to anything, Easy Spirit is definitely in the top five.
I was randomly looking around the net and came across a pair of Easy Spirit shoes that looked pretty weird so I thought I would look at their website. From a fashion point of view, most Easy Spirit shoes are anything but. . . fashionable. But there is still something that I love about them. Occasionally all the awkward and terrible things about them line up to make something almost cool. I’ve said it before, I enjoy things that are a little ugly.
Check out these boots, style name “the future”. They have a velcro closure, awesome! These appeal to me because I am getting really annoyed with my lace up Sorels that are way too hard to get on and off. I think I’ll stalk the site to see if they go on sale at the end of the season. Next winter will have convenient footwear.
Easy Spirit also makes those weird ass shoes that look super comfortable, and slightly dangerous. Anti-Gravity they call it, sign me up! I can imagine them making me feel very springy, like I have elasticky, sinewy legs. I’ve always wanted to try these shoes. I love my Nike Airs, I imagine these are similar (but better because they’re Easy Spirit, not Nike)
And last but not least, from the ‘Classics’ section of their webstore- I love that they have a Classics section- the littlest prancey shoe that is after my heart. I’ve definitely seen this shoe before, on older ladies surely. The kind of ladies who call their pants ’slacks’. They have so many different colours that I feel I need to add this buffet of prancers, I can’t choose which is my fave. They’re having a deal now too, if you buy 3 pairs of shoes you get and extra %20 off, AND they are on sale for $49.99, which seems reasonable for a comfortable, leather, classic shoe.
Oh dear, stop me.
Hello Princess Prance-A-Lot. This is the kind of shoe that makes your foot look less like a foot and more like a cute little hoof. A few years ago at a party I would have stuck bottle caps into the soles of these and tapped around all night. That’s how special they are. Easy Spirit, I’ll say!!!
2009-12-31 :: adrienne
3 January 2010 @ 2:05 am
I have the most hideous pair of North Face winter boots that I wear to trudge through the snow. Sometimes function does trump fashion.
5 January 2010 @ 9:00 am
I was just about to buy a pair of Sorels. Are they not all that?
5 January 2010 @ 11:11 pm
Sorels are all that I guess from a fashion persective, yes! There’s the Team Ugg and the Team Sorel and Team Sorel is waaayyy cooler. However, I actually prefer my knee high black Kamik’s from Canadian Tire to all of the above, but I seem to have misplaced them in the move. So I am stuck with these boots that make me feel like I am going to get a hernia everytime I try to pull them on and off. Once they’re on, amazing boot. But, in and out the door I am usually carrying a 25 lb baby too and so the Sorel’s have made my life way too complicated.
(Also, I was an early adopter of the whole Sorel craze, before they were selling them at Brown’s. I got mine on ebay and they are more of a lumber jack Sorel than a pretty urban girl Sorel, maybe the new ones are easier. Probably.)