To commemorate our last day of March and therefore our last day of Shoe (*tear) I thought I'd post a very useful project for revamping shoes. Shoes are a part of our identity, and you should make them your own. In the past few months I noticed that celebrities and people on Etsy started sporting 'spats', bits of ribbon and fabric that can be attached to a shoe to change the overall look and feel. I took a page out of their book and made some for my own pairs of shoes. I have a real problem with wearing pumps, my heels pop out. So I bought some snazzy sequined ribbon (available in lots of fun colors by the way) and Velcro from a local craft store and voila! instant straps that dress up the shoe and cost next to nothing.
If you want to be brave and dust off your sewing skills, then try these. I took some comfy fabric and found sew-on metallic details, but you can use buttons, beads, rhinestones...go crazy. Cut a rectangular strip, fold it in half, sew it up like a tube, then fold the ends and sew the seams and apply the details. You can attach them on the ends with snaps, Velcro or buttons. When finished use them as straps or ankle cuffs, I've worn them both ways.
Necessity really is the mother of invention, if you want new shoes but don't have the dough, shop your closet and see what you can make of it. Live long and be thrify!
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I wonder if anyone noticed the lite-brite box in the back of that shot?
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