Saddle shoes experienced peak popularity in the 1950s but have, in recent years, been reappropriated (ska musicians got there first). The sight of saddle shoes stirs within me troubling childhood memories of little frantic hands digging to bury a pair of standard black and whites in a large gravel pile at a construction site. No, I hadn't murdered a classmate for his pouch of Capri Sun. I was operating on the naive notion that "losing" the shoes would prevent my father from sending me off to elementary school in them Each. And. Every. Single. Day. My craftiness only earned me a shining new pair of saddle shoes and a lecture on responsibility. (It's important to note here that I was a child in the 80s. My
father wasn't even alive in the 50s. I blame Happy Days.)
That said, I find myself drawn to these pink and creams from the Rachel Antonoff (née
half of Mooka Kinney)
collection for Bass. They look like shoes Barbie would wear bowling. They look like shoes Barbie would wear bowling if she were full sized and inhabiting the
Black Hole Sun universe. And, yes, this is a positive review.
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