Almost August...Time to finally get around to looking at the fall 2010 runways and start dreaming up my fall wardrobe. I waste a ridiculous amount of time clicking through online shops and paging through magazines, but I really don't enjoy actually buying things. The whole budget thing throws me off - partially because the only things I like are several hundred dollars, partially because I hate choosing between the things I both like and can actually afford.

Like these boots off the Free People website - all around $300, give or take.

I love boots, and want to invest in some good leather ones that will last me longer than a suede pair, but my occasional babysitting jobs don't quite meet the mark.

Oh and Bender? From the Breakfast Club? You know, that no-good punk who despised Claire for her wealth that he himself lacked? Well you can get his poor-boy-chic look for $248.

As long as we're throwing money around to get that "perfectly worn in" look, let's pass up a nice, fresh looking pair of Keds for $35 dollars in favor of...

..."Distressed Keds" for $54...

...or even better...

"Stained and Distressed Keds" for another 1o bucks more!

Because really, who can really bother with wearing in their own shoes anymore, anyway?

Those shoes, those shoes! Those are shoes.

Dakota Fanning in Vanity Fair; I think they're Brian Atwood if I remember correctly. I couldn't find them online though.

I want some cowboy boots....but is that weird then that my brother and I would be matchies?

I just love the idea of a well loved, well worn pair of boots that can go anywhere and the more broken in they get, the more treasured they are.

What a lovely photoshopped picture, what skill! Okay I did it in about 15 minutes since I have to go to church so right now I'm pretty impressed with myself despite the mediocre result. I mostly like the two in the top left and right corners. But I feel cowboy boots are the type of thing you see in person and try on and you just know they're right, and they aren't the type of thing you can just pick out online.

If I wasn't afraid of breaking my body on the stairs or tipping over when swinging on my 30 pound backpack, didn't mind being 4 feet taller than all the Justin Bieber freshman and bending in half to open my locker, and had the money to blow on Marc Jacobs suede platform jellies, I would SO be wearing these to school all day err day.

Instead, today I wore my crispy new $9 white Feds (fake-keds, obviii) from Target.

Classy lady.

Wow, cool Paige, more shoes...

But these are the epitome of the current shoe craze. I see these and am like, PRADA CHANEL REALLY?! RIDICULOUSNESS.

Except if I had the money, I'm pretty sure these would be on the top of my shopping list. It's their absurdity that makes them so covetable and charming.

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The Christian Louboutin website is absolutely charming! The way the different pages are collaged and the little pair of red heels that click around are so cute. The sound effects don't even bother me, which is saying something (positive).

This post...this post is a long time ah-comin'. I have a ton of pictures I've been snatching from sites for months in a folder on my desk top, so I'll post some now. This will be a post dedicated to shoe-pant combos. Not Combos like the snack. Those are a little icky. The cheese ones are a lot icky, but I remember the pizza ones being better? Those are probably icky too. Onto the shoe-pant combos! Hurah! Rebel yell!

We can ignore the fact that there are no shoes to make a pant-shoe combo. Maybe it's because I was deprived of those camo-cargo pants from Hollister or A&F like 5 years ago when they were super popular , but I have this unusual affection for any version of them that no one else I know really shares.

Pretty sure this is actually a jumpsuit, and I have no idea how you would wear a sheer jumpsuit without looking like a tramp (and I don't mean the kind Frank sings about, more like Ashley Grant's party outfit in Whatever It Takes) in real, normal life, but it's fab. Topshop

Pretty bad-ass from the hips down. Not that I don't appreciate the fuzzy sweater, because I do, it's just not really "bad-ass" material, ya knoww? Sea of Shoes

Is it Mary-Kate? Is it Ashley? I don't know but I the black slitted jeans with those shoes is ingenious! I just watched New York Minute and that is a fan-freakin-tastic movie. I love all their movies. Like, Billboard Dad totally makes me want to scramble my eggs in a Zip Lock bag now. I always remember being horribly disappointed in their love interests, but whatever. I need to watch them all over again! What are they even doing these days? Other than being "fashionistas" and whatnot. Oh wait they have clothing lines. But are they in school? Or what? Does anyone care?

And all these pictures I've been collecting...I didn't label the sources because I'm lazy, but none of these are mine.

Long time no post...

On Sunday I was enjoying a delicious banana-strawberry smoothie and listening Lily Allen, thinking how wonderfully they go together. Apparently, Karl Lagerfeld also thinks that Miss Allen is always a nice component, and had her perform at Chanel's Spring RTW show. In which she came up from the floor. It was a great big show, as any fashion blog'll tell ya (show...and tell...oh my cleverness is killing me), but to me, the clogs were most memorable. They made me think of middle school when I thought Coach was the swankiest thing around, and I was in the store, staring at the most ridiculous pair of shoes I had ever seen. Wellllll, they're back!

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I wonder how long they'll stick around for...and if Jane from Sea of Shoes is interested in getting a pair.

Accomplishments of the Day:

1. Finally got the September Issue of Vogue

2. Discovered that if you click on the images on my blog they get very, very large.

3. Checked out and was incredibly amused by Charlieissocoollike and MLIA.

4. Horribly burned a batch of cookies.

5. Found the most adorable shoes!

Seriously, can you believe these are from Payless? Because I can't.