Beth Skwarecki

Since I'm an internet celebrity and all, I've decided to put my influence to the test: I am BRINGING BACK SADDLE SHOES. (Please don't ask "where did they go?".) This guy is also some sort of internet celebrity, and he singlehandedly got 14,000 people to start wearing saddle shoes. That means there are only about 6x10⁹ of you losers still holding out.

You don't want to be left out of the latest development in fashion and overall coolness, so of course you will purchase and obsessively wear a pair of saddle shoes. Got it? If you prefer to wear some other type of snazzy spectator-style shoe, that's fine too. Saddle shoes are unisex and appropriate for all ages, so nobody with feet has an excuse for not wearing them.


I got some saddles from Payless.com, but I don't recommend them. They're tight and stiff and made of cheap vinyl. Instead, try Muffy's, which has saddle shoes with red soles, white soles, black soles, rubber grippy soles, leather dancing soles, and even high heels. They've got brown-and-white, black-and-white, red-and-white, white-on-black, and some weird color combos involving browns and greys and beiges. You have no excuse, people.