Smith mostly wears flats and she shops at Nine West frequently, though she isn’t shy about spending more than 100 pounds on a pair of shoes if they are unique. “I’ve got a pair of shoes, they’re gorgeous. I call them my dominatrix shoes. They’re black and silver with studs all around them,” Smith says. But they are not shoes constructed for the rain, so she often wears a “killer” pair of leather boots with a kitten heel if she’s going out. Like Biosah’s choice in boot wear, Smith’s boots also look good with pants and jeans or she can be found wearing a limited edition pair of sneakers, if she’s going to a downtown kind of affair. Adidas concept boutiques and their online site, as well as Nike.com, are renowned for their special or limited edition creations, which canonize athletes and celebrities by designing and naming shoes after them.
Dargue is more of a haute couture shoe devotee and she’s quite careful with her extensive high design collection, consisting of Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin treasures. Dargue closely inspects the architecture of a shoe before making her considerable purchases, but she’s not shy about wearing them all over town, even if it’s raining. However, she does take some precautionary measures like folding flexible ballet flats into her handbag or kicking off the expensive shoes and walking barefoot. “I do find it really difficult. Quite often I have a rough idea of what I want to wear the next day and I wake up and it’s pouring down with rain, and my wardrobe is not designed for rainy weather,” she said. So now she has an eye out for a fantastic pair of flat-heeled leather boots. “But if you’re going on a hot date, I wouldn’t wear those. So I think very hard.” And what does Dargue propose for rainy days if you can’t find that perfect pair of sexy boots? “Get a cab!” she said.
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