My eyelids are a little heavy.  The fatigue has come on.  They're squinting because yes, the summer uniform of London is official.  It is the leather jacket over ruffled floral print dress/skirt and gladiator sandal combo.  Walking about in Camden on Sunday which is a pretty generic reflection of London style, I think I counted about 20 girls working numerous variations of this uniform... I was even tempted to go about documenting this in an Exactitudes [1] sort of way...   

The surprise hit of the season considering the fact that glardiator sandals are not exactly the easiest items to wear and when they come about every summer, they never really quite took off until this year when shoe retailers have provided about a gazillion ways of presenting the gladiator shape, making it a doodle to pick a pair no matter what your style is, in a similar way to what happened to flat buckled pirate boots a few years ago...

So naturally, despite my liking for the gladiator shoe, it's no wonder that the fatigue has set in. However, Finsk's [2] interpretation of the gladiator shape (available at Poste Mistress [3]) is sure to snap me out of the heavy-eyelid action. It's an alternative vision of the gladiator with the Finsk qualities like the purple wooden heel and the unique colour palette.  It also conveniently goes well with faded neons as demonstrated here.... going hand in hand with my love for that particular spectrum of colours that veers between pastel and neon...   

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