I'm actually pretty practical when it comes to my girls' dressier shoes. I am willing to spend more than average, but I demand great design and excellent construction.
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The new fall shoes from CMP fave Livie and Luca are starting to slowly appear on the website and I am absolutely loving the new mushroom-adorned Woodland Boot which is a fun, Hobbit-esque update to the London Boots we were digging last year.
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At the end of last summer, I scored my daughter a pair of Zutano canvas shoes on sale. They got her through early fall, through a couple of warm-weather winter vacations, and surprisingly, right through this summer.
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While all of the trend forecasting is pointing to the 80s for fall, I'm loving the 80s-meets-50s footwear mashup of the new Keds saddle shoe sneaker, right in time for back to school shopping.
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If we just so happened to win the lottery, one of the first places we'd hit on a spending spree would probably be Psychobaby, a Chicago-based boutique that sports some of the hippest clothes, shoes, and gifts for the alternative set.
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While I appreciate the joys of velcro as much as the next mom, I'm worried that if I don't start introducing actual laces to my 4 year-old soon she'll be learning to tie her sneakers in college.
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So it's officially June (how did that happen?) and of course my kids do not yet have sandals. Poking around the web this weekend, I saw these Siaomimi children's sandals online at Popodona and I think I'm in love.
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My daughter has a thing for flipflops these days probably because she sees me wearing them all the time. So I did a dumb thing and bought a cheap pair from a big mall store that's I think are made of sandpaper and barbed wire. She is miserable every time she puts them on.
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I used to play this game with my son when he was a baby, it was called I put on the sock, you wiggle out of it and lose it. Oh the fun we had.
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If you need another reason to be happy it's spring, just check out Eleven's new Spring line of shoes. A sort of "big sister/big brother" to our fave See Kai Run, I've gushed about Eleven before--I love their shoes which combine cool kid-appropriate fashion with run-and-jump rubber bottoms in bigger-kid sizes 9 to 3.
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