Wedding Belle, Clear Water Bay
The Dictator: Is this the bridezilla talking or are you always a little nuts? Wedding dresses don’t come cheap so why didn’t you get yours fitted with heels in mind? Borrowed? Marrying Tom Cruise? French specialist Repetto offers your pick of ballet flats in white to metallic silver, pink, or “something blue” (HK$2,400 to HK$2,700; Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2521 2078). Lots of brands make cheaper ballerinas, some less comfortable than others. Aldo, though, makes a pretty, supple pair in white for only HK$890 (Langham Place, Mong Kok, tel: 3521 0626). Chloé’s popular flats range now includes roundtoed goat’s leather shoes in blush pink with a short acrylic heel (HK$5,830; Gateway Arcade, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2175 5091), as well as pointy-toed cream flats with lots of toe cleavage (HK$3,620). You may not like stilettos, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a teensy bit of a lift from, say, Giuseppe Zanotti’s kitten heel pumps in patent white (HK$5,990; Elements, Kowloon Station, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2799 5539). Some brides really rebel with trainers, so why not take it up a notch with Miu Miu’s silver glitter pair (HK$4,750; Gateway Arcade, tel: 3417 3113)? Or check out Jimmy Choo’s super light slippers in silver glitter (HK$5,190; Ocean Centre, tel: 2375 8086). Here’s a crazy thought: Giorgio Armani has come out with witty black and white ankle boots which look like spats, in buttery leather (HK$5,800; Gateway Arcade, tel: 2956 2123) and would look cute and quirky under a floor-length gown.
Is there anything like those Croc stud decorations that I could use to personalise my Havaianas? I’d like some that I can take on and off to match what I’m wearing.
To Havies or Have Notties? Kowloon
