Warm Welcome: Stella Luna Flats

This 2013, it's been about flats, flats, flats and flats for me.

From the cheapest orange pair from Janylin (other than it's hurting my heels, it's perfectly holding up) to the premium animal printed one from Cole Haan (realized can't let this one go and took it with me to HK).

I only added a pair of nude wedges and a pair of nude pumps (nude finds, yeah) and one photoshoot-only sky-high heels for the year. For their black counterparts, I am pretty much contented with my sturdy Via Venetto pumps and Clarks wedges dating from 2009 and 2010 respectively.

It's a different story with flats.

I returned to Manila early this year and realized the importance of flats.

Several years ago, I used to walk in heels from my rented abode to work, until I returned to Iloilo in 2011. Back then, I remembered owning probably a pair of blue beads-on-jeans flats which I only used for non-work or casual engagements. Even when I was still in Iloilo, I'd wear the same pair of shoes from home to work and back.

Things have changed. Probably in Manila. I looked around me --- from the moment I get off at the unloading bay to the underpass, and even during lunch and merienda breaks, the ladies are wearing flats! 

I'm not sure if I'm only noticing this now and if I just managed to endure my "younger" years in heels. But I'm older and wiser now, and I need my flats. I need and love them more.

I warmly welcome another pair --- one which I've only wished for some years ago. I'd pass by their store and try on their lovely shoes, but wistfully had to take them off (My friend, Lovella, know these yearnings of mine so well. Right, Vel?). Now, it's right here before my eyes, staring back at me, like the bat eyes of the storybook Stellaluna who has reunited with her mother. And the perfect neutral color came in my size!

Please join me in the un-boxing and click 'Read more'.

Please do check out their website for more lovely shoes.

Comfortable shoes are meant to "create" beautiful legs.

The pair came with a shoebag

The pair wrapped in Stella Luna paper

Covered up

In perfect shape

Tadaa! The classic style (and cheapest, mind you) in pewter.
I was told that this style came back after three years. Lucky me. We're MFEO, haha.

If you're interested in giving me another pair, my size is 35 1/2 (hehe ;)

Cinderella tried them on and it seemed perfect.

The End 

But wait...that's only in fairy tales.

Update: After a week of blisters, I had to stop using these flats because of the strange fit. Blame it on my picky feet, perhaps. It's not you; it's me. I eventually donated the flats to The Outlet for resale to benefit Yolanda victims.