Vintage Find: Curella wants your opinion.
November 20, 2007 by curellasays
My best friend, Dille recently bought two pairs of Salvatore Ferragamo flats for a bargain. I am not sure if they were vintage, but I doubt so as they looked brand new. The first pair, a simple black pair of flats with Ferragamo’s signature buckled bows were timeless classics, but the second pair was a gorgeous and exotic looking tortorise print pair which looked more vintage to me. It looked so beautiful against her grey Superfines and made her look classy and stylish with her signature long sleeved embroided tunic shirt.
Her fabulous new shoes made me yearn for some Salvatore Ferragamo shoes as well. I was just thinking to myself the other day how beautiful their shoes and bags are, and how overlooked they are as well amongst the Guccis, Louis Vuittons & Chanels, etc. In fact, today’s Salvatore Ferragamo’s shoe (i’m only familar with the shoes *ahem*) designs are still very much similar to their vintage ones, only with a little touch of updating here and there.
With that in mind, I decided that it was my turn to own some Salvatore Ferragamo shoes. I started searching all the vintage sites I knew, ebay and second hand online stores and whilst it was easy for me to find the classic black bow Salvatore Ferragamo shoes, it was hard for me to find a design/colour that I liked that was in my size.
So finally, after hours and hours of searching, I found a dainty pair in white, with a gold border and a tiny little gold bow with the signature Ferragamo buckle attached to it. It was perfection.
Now, my only problem is - what do i wear it with?
It definitely doesn’t seem like the kind of shoe that would mix well with black tights for winter. It would probably look okay with regular blue, grey & black jeans but I was thinking: what colour leggings would go with these? what kind of dress would compliment these? and also, how do I incorporate it into an outfit consisting of a black leather jacket? As beautiful and as much as i love this shoe, I really feel like I am going to face a problem when it comes to pairing it with an outfit.
So my dear readers, I am asking for your sincere opinions & suggestions. Even a “sometimes fashionable” fellow fashionsista needs help sometimes too. Help? Pretty please?? 
Personally, I would wanna know what Susie Bubble would wear these shoes with, only because I have no idea at all what she would wear these with either!! Speaking of her, I was so happy that she was in this week’s Grazia that I just made my boyfriend go to the cornershop to get a copy for me! 
Toodles xoxo
they are absolutely beautiful! they would be the type of thing i’d hang on to forever and then i’d find something that would suddenly work…i see them with a softer than black coloured tights, like charcoal maybe, with the same muted tone throughout the outfit…i’m so jealous!!
i think agathe form Style Bytes have a little similar pair of white shoes… she wears it with dresses and tights…look cool because of the contrast, i guess.
If your interested in selling them, I would definately buy them from you. I think that they are gorgeous.