Shoes For Stealth Crunchies posted on October 27, 2006 10:38 AM by rethwyll.
Straight from Feedback Zombie's inbox to you: They call me Verdell sent in a great tip about her friend Margot's (and partner-in-crime Una's) shoe company, Keep Company, and their adorable socially- and environmentally-conscious footwear.
Chick though we may be, we are lacking the key gene sequence that makes us long to buy every pair of shoes in the known universe. But even we are helpless to resist the siren song of their Duke line. So kicky! So plaid! The good Scottish girl in us would thrill to wearing a teeny bit of tartan on her toes, and the radical liberal in us would be justifiably smug at the opportunity to stick it to The Man and his Nike-Industrial Complex by purchasing shoes from a company dedicated to equitable labor practices, fair wages for their employees, cruelty-free living and not looking as though you should be tending garden in a commune somewhere. As Keep themselves say, "You don't have to be a vegan hippie to wear our shoes, but you can if you want to be." We may not be a vegan hippie, but if it would mean more companies following Keep's example, we could almost consider becoming one!
Almost.
Buy it! Duke shoes (various styles — women's sizing only), $89.00, from keepcompany.com.
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