These boots are made for walking.

These gold boots that is.  No I didn't cave and end up with a £295 pair of Russell and Bromley beauties as I mentioned last week.  Had I loved them, I would definitely have got them.  But they looked just wrong diddly on me.  I *may* have gone back over the last couple of weeks and tried them on three times (and was rumbled by the SA. "weren't you in last week trying these on?"..... the shame. As I sloped out yet again without purchasing).  So it wasn't as if I didn't try to love them.  It was the toe that, for what I had in mind, was too square for my liking.  I think.  And the colour wasn't "quite" right... 

Here's a pic of me in them.  Actually I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was - if I'm frank it was probably the £295 price tag, for which I needed to love with a capital L, Love them.  Like I said, The Husband really does think I've lost my mind with a hankering for gold boots and so I really had to have utter faith in my conviction that they were perfect.  And I didn't. 

I also ordered the Pied a Terre ones and they were just plain nasty on me. Pure leprechaun.  But I needed a pair of gold boots in my life.  When a lovely friend of mine suggested I "make" some.  On more perusal online, it seemed that there were a number of creative ladies who had sprayed their boots gold. 

I'll be honest.  This seemed like a recipe for disaster.  I do not have a creative bone in my body and I'm still scarred by the red velvet pedal pushers that my mother fashioned for more when I was about 9.  They were infinitely more Hansel (minus Gretal) than the Tammy Girl ones I had had my heart set on.  Scarred, I tell you, by all things fashion that are homemade. 

But there was no other option and so a boot shopping I went.   Whilst I was hugely tempted to buy the Namesake Beige Suede ankle boots from Office (gorgeous gorgeous boots - I just want them full stop!) I'm not sure I could have lived with myself at wasting nearly £70 as you can guarantee I'd be making a complete pig's ear of them. 

So I thought for my experiment, I would get the  Women's Western Boot from Peacocks at a much more palatable £25, despite them not being suede. 





Beige linen vest - Zara
Black swing top with cream arms - Cos
Coated metallic skinnies - 2nd Day 
Gold boots - homemade 
Statement necklace - All Saints 

And an outfit from Monday I think - the one day we had lovely weather.