4 1/2" of heel. Ms. Stefani, you do not f*** around.

Summer brings out one of my biggest weaknesses: my love of preposterously high strappy sandals. I loooove strappy sandals, and I love a high heel even more.  Towering over guys like an Amazon?  That’s just part of the fun.

The problem is, I already have more high-heeled sandals than I really need. If we’re going to be completely realistic about this, I have a limited number of venues to which I can reasonably wear a sandal with a 4″ heel, and, dude, I live in the north.  While I admit that I have on occasion worn glittery strappy sandals on the street in January for the sake of looking especially smoking, it takes a special occasion to convince me to wear shoes like this during most of the year.  (An especially cute guy in dire need of being tortured, for example.)

Needless to say, none of this stops me from loving on the insanely tall sandals all over the stores and the internet.  And if I’m going to embrace impractical shoes, I might as well pick ones that rock.  As always, no one makes stilt heels with more attitude than L.A.M.B., which has a whole array of sandals that sport heels north of 4 inches.  Some shoe porn after the jump.

The rosette almost makes it ladylike, doesn't it? Almost.

And just to make it clear who you're dealing with, there's a zipper at the back of the heel. Yee-ha.

Is it just me, or is there just the tiniest suggestion of bondage chic here? Also in red.

Sex plus a little quirky attitude -- and even on sale!

We’ll see if my practical nature or the fashion beast wins out in the end.  These are, as Emma would call them, sitting shoes, but hey, we all spend some time sitting, right?

Tags: Fashion, L.A.M.B., Sandals, shoes

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