Doesn't Google Image Search the most random, unsystematic tool in the world despite its word counterpart being SO systematic... the stuff it brings up never ceases to make me chortle (I'm sure everyone's played the Google Image your own name game when bored in the office...).  When using Google Images to find some bits and bobs for a digi-collage, I came across these shoes that are quite simply zipper mad.  Where can I buy them?  Where has this image come from?  How soon can I get my feet encrusted with zippers?

Click to the image source and I find the shoes are on a ye olde homepage of an Australian woman called Deborah Miller who is the same age as my dad.  Deborah doesn't seem to have updated her site in many years and has a rather fetching tiled background.  She was or still is according to her curriculum vitae a dentist slash printmaker slash painter slash jeweller slash shoemaker.

She's given out her address, number, fax and mobile to all and sundry.  I feel my hunt for her zipper shoes could end in bounceback emails, a random trip to Burnside, South Australia or police arrest... we'll see how much Dutch courage I've got in me.

Sadly, her page doesn't display much else of interest apart from these shoes (unless brogues with brass cat facings appeal to you)... FYI: Deborah Miller, the internet is faster now and I think you should venture back onto the interweb and come up with more of your custom made footwear...