These. Shoes. Are. Everywhere.
My mom-- a fashionista in the 80s, called them boat shoes. They're also widely known as Top-Siders, a brand that makes these shoes that used to be reserved for the stuffy people who had, you know, boats. Big ones. I believed they're called yachts.
I don't know what it is. I haven't seen them in any magazine or on any fashion show. I haven't even seen any advertisements for them. But they're everywhere.
I've seen them on grad students. On sorority girls (with black leggings, which makes absolutely NO sense to me, sorry). On a cute little emo-couple waiting in line for lunch at Upper Crust. As they held hands, their skinny little waists in skinny jeans, I noticed they were both wearing boat shoes-- hers were a the tan featured here, and his were a rich mahogany.
I suppose boat shoes are just a natural progression from the flimsy, arch support-less ballet flats. Or they're a natural progression to make us repeat the 80s even more so (and for me, make me look like my parents, who were in their teens then).
After all, ladies, the latest news from the fashion front is that shoulder pads ARE making a comeback THIS FALL. Cue the horrified gasps-- mine was a big one-- and get over it. Walking around in leggings and wearing your eyebrows all bushy, you're basically already there.
They come in a variety of hues and patterns-- dark, light, plaid, and that shiny material once reserved for rain slickers in a rainbow of screaming colors. So pick your poison.
Because we're all stars now.... in the boat show.
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