Those Tory Burch flats with the gigantic logo remind me of Flava Flav and his medallion

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Anonymous wrote:Wow,PP, you gathered all of that by looking at pictures? I must be missing something, I suppose other than a bunch of pictures.

Are you seriously that dumb?

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The green eyed monsters are all out tp play!! Ha Ha!

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Anonymous wrote:The green eyed monsters are all out tp play!! Ha Ha!

Yep. Agree.

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European poster here -- looked at the website. The clothes are way cuter than those hideous flats.

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Anonymous wrote:European poster here -- looked at the website. The clothes are way cuter than those hideous flats.

Absolutely, but that "selling a lifestyle" thing is laughable. Well, the attempt to "sell it" is a marketing norm, but anyone who is buying shoes to emulate a lifestyle is a little "cuckoo" (said in my very best impersonation of Jack Black ).

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Completely agree, PP!!

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Anonymous wrote:European poster here -- looked at the website. The clothes are way cuter than those hideous flats.

Absolutely, but that "selling a lifestyle" thing is laughable. Well, the attempt to "sell it" is a marketing norm, but anyone who is buying shoes to emulate a lifestyle is a little "cuckoo" (said in my very best impersonation of Jack Black ).

I assume you're just playing dumb (or maybe you ARE that out of touch)? I am dying to know what field you work in?

Obviously you've never heard of India Hicks.

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I don't hate the Tory Burch flats, but the obvious logo is not my style (no matter what the logo is). I like bright colored ballet flats and I wouldn't even mind spending that much on a cute, casual, versatile shoe, but the huge branding throws me off. I would never carry the Coach bags with the C pattern or the most obvious Kate Spade bags for the same reason.

You can dislike a trend simply because you don't like it, ladies; it doesn't mean someone is jealous. That argument just makes you sound shallow and a little bit mean (and a little bit lacking in imagination and style -- not every popular piece suits everyone, and a large price tag does not insure universal appeal).

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I assume you're just playing dumb (or maybe you ARE that out of touch)? I am dying to know what field you work in?

Obviously you've never heard of India Hicks.

I'm not the PP you're addressing, but what I thought she meant was not that it's laughable to see that someone is trying to sell "a lifestyle;" more that it's laughable that someone would fall for it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't hate the Tory Burch flats, but the obvious logo is not my style (no matter what the logo is). I like bright colored ballet flats and I wouldn't even mind spending that much on a cute, casual, versatile shoe, but the huge branding throws me off. I would never carry the Coach bags with the C pattern or the most obvious Kate Spade bags for the same reason.

You can dislike a trend simply because you don't like it, ladies; it doesn't mean someone is jealous. That argument just makes you sound shallow and a little bit mean (and a little bit lacking in imagination and style -- not every popular piece suits everyone, and a large price tag does not insure universal appeal).

I completely agree. I love many of the Coach leather bags, so much so that I have bought a few, but the "CCCCC" bags just look tacky to me. And I think most Kate Spade bags are darling, just often not "me".

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Anonymous wrote:I don't hate the Tory Burch flats, but the obvious logo is not my style (no matter what the logo is). I like bright colored ballet flats and I wouldn't even mind spending that much on a cute, casual, versatile shoe, but the huge branding throws me off. I would never carry the Coach bags with the C pattern or the most obvious Kate Spade bags for the same reason.

You can dislike a trend simply because you don't like it, ladies; it doesn't mean someone is jealous. That argument just makes you sound shallow and a little bit mean (and a little bit lacking in imagination and style -- not every popular piece suits everyone, and a large price tag does not insure universal appeal).

There is a distinct difference between those who genuinely do not find the style to their taste which is perfectly reasonable - we can't all like the same thing - and those who have another aganda and that difference comes accross clearly, make no mistake.

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Those flats remind me of the Belgian shoes my grandmother used to wear. Pricey and worn by a certain set -- quite like the people in the photos on the Tory Burch website. But, OPEN YOUR EYES, FOLKS -- ugly as sin!

I buy my shoes at the supermarket these days -- they sell great flip-flops for $7.99. I got a nice pair of plastic garden clogs for $20 at Target. Were I ever to pine for the Tory Burch flat lifestyle, I'd start shoe-shopping at rummage sales or in Dumpsters, and give the $195 to charity as penance.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't hate the Tory Burch flats, but the obvious logo is not my style (no matter what the logo is). I like bright colored ballet flats and I wouldn't even mind spending that much on a cute, casual, versatile shoe, but the huge branding throws me off. I would never carry the Coach bags with the C pattern or the most obvious Kate Spade bags for the same reason.

You can dislike a trend simply because you don't like it, ladies; it doesn't mean someone is jealous. That argument just makes you sound shallow and a little bit mean (and a little bit lacking in imagination and style -- not every popular piece suits everyone, and a large price tag does not insure universal appeal).

There is a distinct difference between those who genuinely do not find the style to their taste which is perfectly reasonable - we can't all like the same thing - and those who have another aganda and that difference comes accross clearly, make no mistake.

I highly doubt that there is an agenda behind expressing dislike of a popular shoe. My sense is that this thread and most of the respondents are expressing a opinion and enjoying being a little silly with it. Though it is pretty funny that some fans of the shoe are taking this so personally and rushing to defend the shoe and "everything it stands for".

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Was at Nordstrom this weekend and the Tory Burch flat table was mobbed. So while some of you may not find the shoes to your liking, obviously many others do. And the crowd ogling the shoes seems to cross age, race and ethnic lines, so can hardly be attributed to 40 year old talbots women (in fact I'd say that group was not well represented). Everyone is entiteld to opinions but in the meantime Tory Burch is selling shoes like crazy!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't hate the Tory Burch flats, but the obvious logo is not my style (no matter what the logo is). I like bright colored ballet flats and I wouldn't even mind spending that much on a cute, casual, versatile shoe, but the huge branding throws me off. I would never carry the Coach bags with the C pattern or the most obvious Kate Spade bags for the same reason.

You can dislike a trend simply because you don't like it, ladies; it doesn't mean someone is jealous. That argument just makes you sound shallow and a little bit mean (and a little bit lacking in imagination and style -- not every popular piece suits everyone, and a large price tag does not insure universal appeal).

There is a distinct difference between those who genuinely do not find the style to their taste which is perfectly reasonable - we can't all like the same thing - and those who have another aganda and that difference comes accross clearly, make no mistake.

I highly doubt that there is an agenda behind expressing dislike of a popular shoe. My sense is that this thread and most of the respondents are expressing a opinion and enjoying being a little silly with it. Though it is pretty funny that some fans of the shoe are taking this so personally and rushing to defend the shoe and "everything it stands for".

Well said, reasonable poster.