OOTD: Style Guide Cover Inspired (The Allie Gladiator Metallic Sandals)

First, thank you Joanna and Gigi for finding the solution of the riddle in my last post (I was starting to doubt that maybe I am the only one to watch crappy TV. No offense Gigi!) The mysterious guy in the picture at the end of my LA post was Peter from Sur, a restaurant in West Hollywood. The staff of Sur is the cast of a Bravo TV show called "Vanderpump Rules", which is a spinoff of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Lisa Vanderpump, one of the housewives is the owner/manager of two restaurants in LA and in this show we see her with her restaurant manager hat on and not in her relationship with the other housewives). The show could have "Sex lives of bartenders in LA" as a subtitle and honestly I would never have thought I would be hooked on the show but as Gigi said it is like watching a train wreck. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to have dinner there since I watch the show and I was in LA and it actually was, since almost all the cast was there. It was even more fun because they were filming that night (even if they didn't film our table, so I will have to wait for my five minutes of celebrity). Granted, Peter is not one of the main characters of the show and he is actually the "serious" guy, maybe more people would have better recognized Jax, the "star" of the show and his on/off girlfriend Stassi (he was at the bar and my friend kept calling him by his name, which I found a bit weird. I mean even if we know who he is, it isn't like we are friends or we have been introduced. But maybe I am just an uptight New Yorker!)
To wrap the LA topic, I want to thank all of you for the comments to my post, I enjoyed reading them. Now let's move on!

I had a very busy weekend and I actually wanted to post pics of my weekend outfits but I thought I would post my OOTD first because some of you might be interested in the Allie metallic gladiator sandals. I liked these sandals instantly but because I don't need any more flat sandals I didn't purchase them during the previous promo. However, I have been staring very intently at designer shoes as of late and after a day of two of browsing $600-800 shoes (on sale!), a pair of shoes that you actually like as much as the ones that cost $800 and actually cost almost a tenth of the price become the all more appealing all of a sudden (this is not to say that JCrew shoes are cheap in general, but this particular style is stylish and quite affordable, especially with the current 30%). I thought that it wasn't worth it to wait for a markdown and miss on them (in fact there are very few size left today), so I decided to go to my store to try them on (admitted that they still had my number) as sizing in JCrew shoes has been very inconsistent as of late, at least in my case.
In this case I took my regular size (a 7), so I would say they are TTS. I wasn't sure I really liked the contrasting heel (which is golden) but it doesn't bother me much because I cannot see it once the shoes are on my feet (I find it more bothering in the black, I would have preferred a more versatile black or natural heel on those). They were very comfortable right off the box but the real test was today, when I wore them out to pay a visit to a friend who had an operation and is at the hospital. I walked miles in these (I kid you not) and they didn't bother me at all. Do not size down though because the front could become too tight.
What I really liked is that they look great with both skirts/dresses and pants. That they looked great with pants I knew because they are swoon-worthy on the cover of the lastest style guide. But it is difficult to find gladiaror sandals that look good with dresses because they tend to run up high on the ankle and cut the leg. Well, not these.

I tried them on for you with my Gap shirtdress from last year (best shirtdress ever) that I wore non stop this past Saturday to a birthday party and then to a movie with husband (we saw "The Iceman" that was actually better than I thought - it is almost like a classic Scorsese - and I recommend if you can stomach some very cold-blooded scenes. The wardrobe that Wynona Ryder wears in the movie is worth it in itself):





Close-up:



I was actually going to head out like this but my MIL (who had dropped off my daughter earlier at school) came back with reports of colder temperatures so I decided that I would try my version of the June cover of the style guide. I have a pair of old Scout chinos (first edition) that aren't splattered with paint but distressed (they will do!) and an old Zara short-leaved linen shirt that has "shrunk" (an euphemism to say that I am wider on top than I was ten years ago) but looks great with these pants. I do have a safari inspired jacket but the color is much warmer than the pants and they clash together so I wore the striped schoolboy blazer instead. So TA-DA:






Bottom line: I really recommend these, they are stylish and comfortable after road test.

Are you considering the Allie metallic gladiator sandals? Any other JCrew shoe is striking your fancy?