Frozen Cherries and Jelly Shoes

Today the air is warm. It isn't the first warm day, but it's the first time it feels real. Like the warmth is here to stay rather than a little taste before it dropping back down into the thirties.

My windows are open and I'm eating sweet frozen cherries, one of my favorite summer treats. I love warm weather and getting to wear warm weather clothes.

What I don't exactly have a lot of are warm weather shoes. I'm a boot girl. I have tons of boots, combat boots, college girl boots, cowboy boots. I have all the boots.

Boots aren't so good for the summer. I also stand all day and spend most of my time climbing ladders, into and out of window displays and running up and down the stairs.

It makes finding new foot wear a little bit challenging. This summer I am pretty damn determined to dress like a little pastel cupcake as much as possible. My all black shoes don't line up with that ideal very well.

Recently I stopped into American Apparel- something I rarely do looking for a pair of tights they didn't end up having and found they have abundance of jelly shoes, In every color you could possibly want and then some really don't.

I bought a pair. I thought they were cute and they matched a skirt I'd ordered and I needed some summer shoes pretty badly. Plus these were closed toed so I could maybe even get away with wearing socks so they don't stick to my feet.

Since today was the first real warm day, not like all those fake warm days I figured it was a good day to test out my shiny new plastic shoes.

The verdict is: I'm pretty pleased. I wore them with crochet ankle socks so they didn't stick to my feet- one of my biggest concerns was foot sticking. That would be weird and sounds like it might smell. Obviously since they were new they weren't the most comfortable things in the whole world, but I made it through the day and didn't want to cut my feet off.

Any time I can say that I consider it a win.

I'm pretty sure with more wears the plastic with warp to the shape of my foot and they will be more comfortable.

I'd a say a solid A pair of shoes. There may be a white pair in my future.

You can find them here: http://store.americanapparel.net/woven-jelly-sandal_jellyw

I found they ran very true to size. If you have very slender ankles you may need to punch a extra hole.

I'll give em a few more wears to make sure they continue to be awesome and will report my findings. I'll even try them barefoot and brave the possible foot sticking just to see what would happen.