The Redemption Arc of My Ugly Shoes

Alternative title: don't trust Twitter about fashion

Typically I write about fashion only on Fridays, and today is no exception. If you like fashion, I hope you enjoy! If you don’t like fashion, I hope you either tolerate this article or pretend you didn’t see it.

I only have one real-life friend who cares about fashion. I don’t have the best intuitive fashion sense (I have to think very deliberately and strategically about fashion—I have to try very hard, which is innately uncool) so I rely on my one real-life friend to give me a gut check about particular items I’m thinking of buying. Sometimes we just send each other our favorite fashion inspo of the week. And a few months ago, I sent her the following shoes from Vivaia, with the caption, “Am I crazy, or are these kind of cute?”