It took years to admit, but even we have our limits: these lovely Courreges and Salvatore Ferragamo shoes inherited from dear Aunt Mae just can't be made currently elegant, no matter how we train our combined resources on it. She may have worn them proudly on the Queen Elizabeth, but we wouldn't even wear them in Queens.
They are simply, definitely, hopelessly frumpy and outdated. Not even a staggering platform (see entry on Add-An-Inch) can help. And the Courreges are so oddly speckled with - something - it looks like Auntie Mae either took up spray painting graffiti in her old age or stored them in a fly-ridden attic (no fair guessing which was more likely). Clearly not even fit for the charity bin.
So...what's a chic inheritee, with proper respect for the deceased and the environment, going to do? Reuse, Reshoes, Re...news! Renews. Renew. Get it?
Ah. What elements can we reuse in a renewed way? Unless you've got a fabulous idea for re-purposing antique leather shoe soles, worn thin by repeated trips to bingo and the local pharmacist, we're going with the always-hip logo buckles on the toes. We are particularly fond of the Courreges ones since they are so very French and classic and underexposed.
To cut a long (and largely self-congratulatory) essay short: the shoe buckles look marvelous woven onto a ribbon or thin scarf and incorporated into a headband. Three look better than two (see any interior decorator's book on "groupings" in odd numbers), and a mix is much more elegant than everything from the same designer (see same entry) .
You can also thread your recovered shoe baubles on a small scarf (like those half-price, half-size Hermes items) and knot them "casually" around the handle of your favorite handbag. But we leave it to your discretion as to whether that has been worn into the ground like, um, a certain relative's leather shoe soles.
Now...how DID she get lurid speckles all over her church pumps?
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