Posts with tag rubber

We've previously marveled at Swim's creations, keeping our favorite shoes safe from dangerous water on rainy days, but now we have even more reason to absolutely love them. Check out these new designs that look better than ever, evolved from their basic ballerina-style slip-ons. These rubber coverings look easy to pull on and slip off on days when you want to protect your shoes from rain, snow or mud.

A notable one is the new covering made specially for heels. The cut has been specialized to flatter just about every type of high-heeled shoe, tempting just about anyone to wear these even when the weather isn't so bad. Heck, even the additional traction along the bottom has been lovingly detailed into a street map. Now that's attention to detail.

Visit the Swims store for more details of this upcoming design and purchase their currently available ballerina-style galoshes. NOTCOT and Frizzifrizzi have additional pictures for drooling purposes.

We adored Vicky's short new hair at Fashion Week -- it was funky, sexy, and totally flattering. However, it turns out that, cute as it is, it has the possibility to go very, very wrong, as you see here at the launch of Victoria and David's new signature fragrance. Isn't part of the draw of super-short hair the fact that it can look wicked cute with very little work? So why, oh why, did she opt to slick it back like Pee Wee Herman??

Maybe it was so that her hair would look as slick as her shoes/boots/leggings. You'll have to click through the gallery to get the full effect. Oh, and for the record, we're not all that happy with Becks, either.

In America, we don't have too many summer music festivals that feature fields of mud. So we're not really into wearing wellington boots like Kate Moss and other British "it" girls, you know, the ones who relish slogging in mud with their knee-high rubber boots on.

But we still think the shoes are pretty cool looking, especially with a pair of tiny denim shorts and messy hair. And it appears that the weliie brand of choice, Hunter, is hooking up with a popular designer to spruce-up its aesthetic.

Suzy Radcliffe has been tapped to create a 60s inspired trench coat that will debut on the Ronnie Loves rails at Dover Street Market near the start of London Fashion Week.

Coming in black, beige, and bright red, the coat will retail for $727.

[via Vogue UK]

This is so incredibly wrong. We don't mean to offend anyone's fashion sensibilities, but we're pretty sure that the fact that Crocs now makes heels -- and that people are actually buying them -- is an event that means the apocalypse is close at hand.

We are well aware that everyone and their very up-to-date mothers have a pair of rubber rain boots. They are very necessary, even if you live in a desert climate like Los Angeles because you never know when the clouds will open up and spew rain down on you.

However, if you're not the boot-wearing type, what to do? At the very least, you can take the "rubber" part and wear them in a different shoe, like Kate Spade's Kayla flat. The shoes are made of black molded rubber, lined with a signature striped print, and feature a rhinestone snowflake...because there's nothing better than having sparkling adornments on your feet when you're splashing through the rain.

Oh, whom are we kidding? It doesn't ever rain in Los Angeles. And that 11 hours of mist in the middle of February that halts the entire city because "OMG! It's raining!" isn't really rain.

Still, we'd love to have the Burberry Knit-cuff Rain Boot for those days when the sprinkler systems on the front lawn get a little out of control. The black rubber boot has a lug sole and flat heel, and features Burberry's signature beige, black and red print on the knit cuff that folds over the top. It's Burberry alright, but a little less subtle than the rain boots that are made entirely of rubber in the same beige check print (which we also love).

Available from Neiman Marcus for $210.

In a quest to find even more ways to help the envorinment and take advanage of resources that were in plain sight, but going to waste, designer Elizabethe Hake came up with these black, rubber bracelets. This line of accessories - since jewelry would probably not be the optimal term for this product - is made from reclaimed rubber bicycle tires. The origin of the rubber is evident in the style and shape of the bangles, as they even look a bit like bike chains. Some of the bracelets have sterling silver accents, too. Overall, the idea is to make the statement that environmental friendliness doesn't have to be about "hemp and granola." Not that there is anything necessarily wrong with that, but sometimes it's good to have a more modern option.