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Official Park Slope mom shoes make big fashion news

Thomas Iannacone, WWD

You know those flats that have been all over Seventh Avenue for a couple of summers?

WWD accessories editor Roxanne Robinson-Escriout is drooling all over them today:

…each season I see the best of the best. But my latest accessories discovery wasn’t from a chic Parisian salon, slick Milan runway or hip downtown New York showroom; rather, it came from the playgrounds and play spaces of Queens and Brooklyn.

Roxanne’s new fashion crush is the $29.95 to $34.95 Saltwater sandal first introduced in the 1940s  as a way of using scrap leather from military boots. The shoes got a boost when Suri Cruise (not Laurie Berkner?) was photographed in them, but Robinson-Escriout has bigger things in mind for the humble footwear:

I think fashion folk may become as obsessed with them as I am. And if the company called on shoe whizzes like Pierre Hardy, Bruno Frisoni or Christian Louboutin to do a collaboration, they would go downright crazy over them!

We’re going to go downright crazy when Loubouton releaseses his saber-heeled version in purple python. But will they still be thirty bucks?

Faye :Faye Penn is the founder of Brokelyn and publisher of the Brooklyn and Queens Beer Books, the Brooklyn Cocktail Book and other stuff you ain't seen yet. She lives in Ditmas Park. Get at her at brokelyn@gmail.com

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