Schiele, Shoes, and Kavanaugh
“Old World Bootie” for sale at Modcloth
If you arrived at your formation of taste in the late aughts to the early teensright around the time that became a social category and was a kind of music and it was conceivable that an attractive stranger might ask whether you wanted to come back to their place and listen to their then you might know this shoe, if you don’t already have a pair lying around. Surely you have seen it on the feet of models or mannequins in , , or any other retro-leaning, trendy store. Black or brown leather, with a tidy, stacked heel, fastened up with buttons or more often tightly laced in a neat bow, these boots—, in cutesy copywriter parlance—hug the shape of the foot, making for a pretty, petite, old-fashioned silhouette. Sometimes known as an , they’re self-consciously vintage yet contemporarily ordinary—not out of place in 2010, 2014, 2018, though they might strike some as a little … twee,
