082312 - ALDO RANT!!

Happy Birthday to me, huh? 16 years ago, I was born and 16 years later, I wrote a blog post about it. I had a pretty great day today, I spent time with my sister and mom, and I got a new pair of shoes! They're studded loafer-style flats from Aldo, I've been eyeing for a while now from the website. This is my first pair of Aldo shoes.

You see how these shoes' style is called the "CORINETTE" style, right? The style of the shoe is like this (pictures taken from ALDO website):

The name of the shoes are under their picture. So the shoes that I got are the same style as the shoes I just showed above, as the BLYE and the tan/silver CORINETTE shoes. What I wanted was the shoes that were from the picture on the website of the black CORINETTE style shoes, which were these:

(link to these HERE)

If you just glance from one picture to the other, you can tell that the picture of the black CORINETTE style shoes has a longer lip than the other colors/the BLYE style. I wasn't sure why the black CORINETTE style shoe on the website has a different picture than the other colors, but I did like the longer-lipped style much better (although I didn't end up getting it). 

I know for sure that the shoes I purchased were the style with the shorter lip, because after I got home, I began comparing the shoes I got to the shoes I saw online. The woman at ALDO began getting really frustrated with me when I began arguing that the shoes on the website were not the same, and told me that the shoes I ended up purchasing and the shoes on the website were the "exact same". 

(My shoes are the same style as these tan-colored ones)

So I color-coded the differences I painted on the picture to make them easier to point out:

RED- On the side of the shoes, where the lip meets the side, the CORINETTE style has 7 studs while the longer-lipped style has 10.

YELLOW - On the part of the lip with the most studs, the CORINETTE style has 7 studs, while the longer-lipped style has 10 (thus making the lip longer)

GREEN - There is one stud on the lip from the indent (?) on the CORINETTE style shoe, while there is 3 on the longer-lipped style.

BLUE - I can't be sure, but the length of the lip from the indent just looks longer on the style on the right.

So my main point is, I really wanted the longer-lipped style on the black CORINETTE shoe I saw online, but the shoe itself isn't the same shoe as the picture, so the website is either misleading or has a mistake that needs to be fixed. 

I still have these, but I wish the picture didn't make me look forward to getting the other shoe.