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Grr, baby

by Erin Souza | November 20, 2008

It was with a bit of guilt and a great deal of trepidation that I took my near-daily spin around the Saks Fifth Avenue online shoe department this afternoon. Guilt because I can barely afford to pay attention, let alone buy another pair of shoes; trepidation, well, for exactly the same reason. And after a few clicks, of course, I found myself head-over-very-high-heels in love with a pair of Brian Atwood pumps.(I like to think shoe obsession is one of the very few loopholes of monogamy. That, and a very strange excitement over the arrival of the red holiday cups at Starbucks.) Leopard-print patent leather, a whopping four-and-three-quarter-inch heel, and a slight platform make these shoes worth lusting over. At $720, are they worth my share of a month’s rent? The jury’s still out on that one. But for now, I’m going to spend the remainder of the afternoon picturing myself teetering (I’d be almost average height in these things!) in these outrageously hot heels. Oh, and sipping my second latté from a snowflake-adorned red cup. Santa, can you hear me?