vegan shoes

A Quaint Swiss Winter Hiking Boot for Vegans and Vegetarians

 

Here are the details:
Urbanoutfitters.com

$68.00

Blue (featured) and black

* Polyurethane, cotton, rubber (no leather)

This is awesome. This looks like a swiss hiking boot like the ones I used to see in the ridiculous but awesome catalog I used to receive called Gorsuch. It was a catalog that was aimed at  trophy wives who had moved to ski towns in Europe, who dressed (or so the catalog claimed) in  typically white high collared ruffled shirts, leather leggings, leather boots embroidered with flowers, while the little blond children typically wore lederhosen and embroidered leather parkas. Everyone was posed on the ski slopes of the alps or in the apres ski lodge. Everything was literally like 4000 dollars  but they sent the catalog out to anyone who would take it. You must check it out for yourself!
They sold boots exactly like these, but amazingly these use no leather.
 

Non leather Shoes from AE.com

AE Velvet Ballet Flat

$29.50

Rubber sole

After doing the post on bags, I checked out the shoes on AE.com to see if there was anything good. Unfortunately, most everything in the shoe section is “genuine suede” (great!!), but this velvet ballet flat, from what I could gather, uses no leather since it has a rubber sole and a velvet upper.

I love velvet and this shoe reminds me of the shoes that a dog might bring an old gentleman sitting in a velvet chair–in other words, velvet slippers. I love that.

There is also a leopard print version of the shoe

Leopard Ballet Flat

Soft Microfiber Fabric

Rubber sole (I’m assuming since that’s what the velvet ballet flat was)

This reminds me of something Brigitte Bardot would wear with ankle length black pants and an over-sized shirt. Amazing how Brigitte Bardot has devoted her life to animals these days. A very cool person.

Well that finishes off my journey into the depths of AE.com seeking non leather items. What did you think?