STELLA MCCARTNEY CHOCOLATE BROWN STACKED BOOTIES

Booties are my thing, I own far too many pairs of stacked platform ankle booties and I'm not ashamed of it. The bootie is versatile: it can be less dressy than a pump during the day, but more masculine and kinda bad ass at night. So, needless to say, I'm always on the hunt for a good bootie.

The Barney's Warehouse sale is the gathering of every single fashion-savvy lady in the city of Los Angeles at an airport hanger in Santa Monica once a year for a blow out sale on all of Barney's finest clothes and shoes and the occasional cashmere sweater for your significant other that you will probably steal from him anyways. I wait all year for this because it's my chance to finally buy all the beautiful and mad expensive things I have been lusting after at Barney's. My routine goes as follows: the day of the sale, I wake up early, dress in an easy to layer outfit, grab myself some form of an Iced Tea, and race over to the Santa Monica airport to stand patiently in line before the sale opens. Doors open, I head straight for the clothes. I like to get the clothes out of the way before the shoes, because carrying around boxes of shoes while you're trying on 1000 different things is stressful and gives me anxiety in an already chaotic environment. No need to be chanting "Deep Breaths" to myself every five minutes when it can be avoided. I proceed to try on mounds and mounds of Alexander Wang, Vena Cava, and Marc Jacobs and I finally narrow it down to my five favorite pieces, and there it is: I've hit my budget. What do I do? Do I go look at shoes? What if I fall in love with a pair that I can't afford? What about these awesome clothes? Oh hell, I'll just take a peek...

Bad idea. Bad bad idea. I saunter over to the size 7.5 section (which has been ransacked at this point) and I see nothing but crappy Prada flats and weird kitten heels (Kitten heels are gross for the record). Anyways, as I'm heading to the checkout, I literally trip over a lone Stella Mc Cartney chocolate brown stacked bootie. Uh oh. It's in my size. Shit. Don't try it on. How much are they? Shit! That's my whole budget...

I tried them on. Dropped all the clothes, and went straight to the checkout with the Stellas in hand. That was over two years ago, and I'm still happy with my decision.

Photographer: Claire Thomas

Outfit- Alexander Wang dress (worn as a shirt), By Malene Birger Cardigan, Luv Aj necklace, Wrangler Jeans