Cary Randolph Jefferson, future Kennedy, needs an honest opinion on these:
She says:
Let’s have an open discussion about thigh-high boots.
Office appropriate with pants?
Never appropriate?
Specifically this pair?
How do we feel about thigh-highs?
Talk to me.
I haven’t seen many offices in my time, but my instinct is telling me that thigh-high, high-heeled boots would be inappropriate in just about any office except for a fashion magazine. At first I thought she might be kidding with the whole “office appropriate” part, and everyone would just take it as a joke, until I scrolled down and looked at some of the comments:
As a male who pays attention, all that matters is that there’s a confidence that exudes out of a woman who wears them.
Well then, I guess that answers that. You buy those boots Mandolph! As long as you’re confident no one will care!
Oh, Cary. I just can’t get over the fact that those boots are $895.
IKR?
I don’t care how buttery smooth that leather (*cough*vinyl*cough*) is, the only people who need to be spending that much on thigh high heeled boots are Dominatrixes. Incidentally, that’s also the only profession in which they are in any way appropriate for the office.
Maybe it’s apt then that the commenters who were most verbose in their approval and encouragement were men.
I kind of feel like if you have to ask the room, with a bunch of qualifying questions, you probably already know the answer and just want someone to give you permission to go against what you’re thinking.
Also, this was on her blog just today:
- Anonymous said: Thigh high boots work only if you’re tall and don’t dress like a skank.
- Well, I am tall so we’re halfway there.
Christ, she’s an insufferable bitch.
I don’t even understand the question. This seems along the lines of the bralet at the wedding that was mentioned a while back. I feel like I have the same answer: are you wearing the pants pulled down over the boot, and not tucked in? Then yes, fine (although I imagine your pants would look odd). Are you wearing the bralet as a BRA with a shirt over it? Then great! Otherwise why do you have to ask??
I hate this heifer so very much. Like she needs an excuse to look like a skank. How many rodents do you guys think can lurk in those boots?
She’s two years too late to the thigh high boot trend. And this bitch works for a fashion house?
Didn’t Anne Hathaway wear essentially these very boots in The Devil Wears Prada? In 2006?
I had a sad moment of naivete with this post.
“Office appropriate with pants? Of course they’re appropriate with pants over them- Oh.”
Not office appropriate for the Ralph Lauren offices, Cary McWhitebread. If you get a job at Dolce and Gabbana or Gaultier, then maybe. (You will never get a job at Dolce and Gabbana or Gaultier, you watery highball.)
No.
Exactly.
Well sure, they’re office appropriate…if you work in a dungeon or on a corner.
Gramatically: I would never trust the opinion of someone who writes in the style of “all that matters is that there’s a confidence that exudes out of a woman who wears them.” Jeez.
Financially: Spending almost a grand on a trend that was big several years ago is just a bad, bad, investment. It’d be like buying the world’s most expensive yogurt without bothering to check the expiration date.
Logistically: What are the odds of those boots fitting not just her feet, but also her calves and above? I’d worry about them sliding down and looking increasingly wrinkled unless they were actually tight around the top, where it hits the thigh. On HER legs? Good luck with that.
So. I have a friend who likes to talk fashion, and although I can barely afford Nordstrom on sale, I like to look and I like to talk. She has the coin to actually buy shit she likes, and thinks about fashion in terms of “investment pieces.” I made some off-hand comment about over the knee boots apparently not being for prostitutes only any longer, and I think I offended her. Apparently she has some and really loves them. Then I saw this discussion and instantly felt better. Some things that are trendy are still questionable, and I’m glad to see that I’m not alone is thinking so.
I have seen over the knee boots on people lately but they are flat or low heeled riding boots and look cute over jeans. These are kind of ugly, and really $895? Buy a cheaper pair and donate the rest of the money to charity. Wasting that much on a dubious trend is ridiculous.
It’s an investment in catching a rich husband, don’t you know?
Ah yes! But then wouldn’t it be better to wear those after work? Or is she hoping to snag Ralph Lauren himself?
I know it’s crass to talk about money, but how on earth would she be able to buy those boots on her salary?! Either Ralph Lauren is paying her way too much or she’s planning on spending months of savings on boots that were fashionable a couple of years ago.
Mandolph has posted before about buying an expensive pair of shoes, then only being able to eat peanut butter & jelly sandwiches until her next payday. To be honest, given the designer (Alexander Wang), I thought the boots would cost at least a grand.
if they are under pants…no one will know they are thigh high except the person wearing them. I think the better question is why purchase thigh high boots to wear under pants for $900.00?
credit…she always mentions being maxed out on her blog
PS: $895 is obscene and she should be mortified with herself to the point of fainting.