How to Buy a Pair of Designer Shoes VIP Jewelers

How to Buy a Pair of Designer Shoes

Sep 1, 2010 Sarah Laurence

Designer Shoes with the Distinctive Red Soles – Free Digital Images Designer shoes range broadly in price and quality from the upper-end high street designers to the footwear of exclusive fashion houses.

Designer shoes are very expensive and therefore, coveted. A good pair should show fantastic quality and workmanship and last a very long time. Customers should try to avoid the trap of buying fakes, often advertised as genuine but marked down. The steps below steer shoe fashionistas through the process of buying the perfect investment pair of designer shoes.

Setting a Shoe Budget

Before shopping for shoes, purchasers should decide on the absolute maximum amount they are willing to spend for a pair and resolve not to spend above that amount. As the prices of designer shoes vary so much, this will also dictate to some extent where they will be able to choose shoes from. Upper-end high street designers (such as Kenneth Cole and Guess) provide fantastic trends at keep-above-the-red prices, while designers such as Chanel, Lanvin, Christian Louboutin and Gucci sell shoes for which most women will only be able to dream.

Designer Shoe Homework

Customers need to research online what they will be able to buy for their money. Good places to do this are bluefly.com (where shoes can be selected by designer or by style), saksfifthavenue.com (where their entire collection of shoes as well as other accessories and clothing can be viewed online) and for larger shoe sizes, designershoes.com.

Purchasing Shoes from a Designer

Once shoppers have decided on a specif pair from a shop or designer that they would like to purchase, it is time to buy. Designer shoes are available from the stand-alone shops of designers, upper-end department stores (such as Holt Renfrew, Saks 5th Avenue and Neiman Marcus), as well as online from sites such as bluefly.com or directly from the designer’s website.

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The Best Designer Shoes

Although most design houses manufacture shoes as part of their lines, some designers specialize in shoes and come well-recommended the world over. These include Christian Louboutin (with their characteristic lipstick-red soles), Jimmy Choo (owned by English business tycoon Tamara Mellon) and Manolo Blahnik (favorite shoe designer of Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker’s character in Sex and the CIty).

Shoes should be stored in their original shoe boxes with tissue paper pushed gently into the toes and always kept in a dry place. Nothing makes a girl as happy as the perfect, most covetable pair of gorgeous designer shoes which can be worn with anything to any occasion. So slip them whenever a extra bit of confidence is needed and strut the stuff!

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