That’s right, you meanies. She has shut done her comments because of you. Well, not exactly. Let her explain in her own words: “Comments aren’t necessary.”
Who cares what you people think?!? Fuck all y’all. Sea of Shoes is famous now, at least to blog followers, and their feedback doesn’t matter. She’s not here to make friends, after all! And she doesn’t need your stupid opinions.
But wait, I have an opinion, and now it’s too late. Shit. Let me share it anyway, alright?
My opinion is, Take your new Dolce and Gabbana Wedges ($1,010 at farfetch) and get the money back. Take the money and buy a wheelchair for the guy I met last week who is paralyzed after a motorcycle accident. His sons are hoping the family can raise $1,000 to buy one.
I know it’s not your fault that people are paralyzed. And yet. Oh well. Like you said, Sea of Shoes, “some people are just born with the compulsion to collect.“
Those shoes are god-awful anyway.
God those are fucking ugly…
That’s what I call style without brains … did I say style? Perhaps I meant vile. Your comment is so valid, suggest you send Shoesea an email. If nothing else, it’d be interesting to see if you get a response.
I have been waiting for you to post your thoughts on this as soon as I stopped by sea of tripe… oh sorry I mean shoes… yesterday for an update.
Seeing as I cannot leave comments there, I’d like to leave one for mademoiselle here if I may…
“comments arent necessary” – come on Jane, we all know your shit hot and all, what with going to the Crillon Ball (setting back feminism, but dont worry, you are wearing haute chanel), but us mere mortals do have opinions and voices and I happen to think in some cases my comments are necessary – especially when you insist on throwing your wads of cash on monstrosities such as the above – someone needs to tell you NO – a god awful shoe does not mean quirky.
Sorry for taking up your comments section but I feel I had to get that out there to Jane, somehow.
I read Sea of Shoes for a bit, sort of guiltily immersing myself in a life I’d never have what with a) having the pale sturdy legs of a Victorian peasant and b) being permanently stony broke.
But then it started to make me feel a bit bilious. And then a bit grubby. And then outright vomitous. It’s a bit frightening that not only is someone utterly insulated from real life but now they’ve closed off pretty much the only way real life is ever going to reach ’em.
I so agree with Sarah.P-a while ago I stumbled across SOS and thought she seemed a nice enough girl. However, the more I read the more uneasy I became. I mean, seriously, what sort of 18 year old collects belt buckles and vintage YSL? I may not have a closet which I only wear 10% so I don’t “spoil” the rest, but as a fellow 18 year old who has a group of lovely friends, goes out and enjoys being young, plays the violin, cycles, enjoys fashion AND raises money for trafficked women and children I just want to scram “Get real”. I have no issue with people spending money as they wish, but such materialism and self absoption worries me. You can have a closet full of a thousand pairs of shoes and still have an empty heart.
shutting off comments…does she think she’s seth godin? the only reason why it doesn’t bother me he doesn’t do comments is that his posts are actually useful.
with jane i can’t help but to think that if she took the time to really build a community rather than accumulate fans she wouldn’t have this problem.
which reminds me… i’m so glad my mom wears rayon hawaiian shirts, jeans from sears and flipflops all year round.
That post said one thing– I’ve outgrown you, plebeians.
No comment!
I’m with Jennine. There is no community there; it’s a sea of fan-girls ready to bloodlet anyone who speaks ill of their beloved muse/goddess/aspiration.
I swear, the internets has people thinking they’re actual celebrities…P’SHAW!!!
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the jacket covered in pierced nipples.
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Did you like how she acknowledged her CUPIDITY???
But didn’t really address it…like everything else.
I don’t really know where I stand regarding the argument that people who have a lot of money should use it for charity/good causes rather than buying any luxuries, however, I read her post where she mentions those shoes, and I find it SUPER ridiculous that she bought them and doesn’t plan on wearing them. My reaction to that is confusion and disgust. If all she is going to do is look at them why doesn’t she just print out a picture. I can’t even handle this idea of turning functional objects into useless expensive crap to hoard.
Some people are rich, manipulative, self centered cunts. What are the poor fans gonna do now, when they can’t reach their goddess? Write her a REAL letter? Buy the shoes she so called designed, but never wore herself, to be closer to her?
This world has become a dangerous place, all those desperate girls are loose and free, so many “amazings” left unsaid, so many lost their Shepard. I pity the fool….
Now you know why hating somebodies big nose doesn’t really do it for me…
Why do all these shoes look like little deformed hooves?
Nausea.
Silence, Jacobins! Mme Antoinette wishes to be alone in the palace with naught but her shoes and her flamingly gay boyfriend.
I have a few comments for her. Pretentious. Vaunted. Self-absorbed. Delusional. Avaricious.
But most of all: sad.
I agree with most of you. I started off reading her site awhile ago and thought, nice girl, etc. However, after awhile I too started to notice that there is nothing that you really get from her. Be it inspiration, insight or just plain entertainment! It’s not the fact that she’s got money to spend on whatever she wants. Let her, if that makes her happy. What I don’t like is the self absorption which seems to be the only thing going for her. She is just a rather boring, plain looking girl that boosts her own ego with shopping. There are thousands of others creating better sites with real passion and talent.
What I find hysterical and sad is that as soon as she posted that, all the wannabe S.O.S started blogging about what a “genius” (I now hate that word) idea that is and how they are also going to do it.
I’m kind of with Elena up there….if I’ve earned/been given money, I’d like the freedom to choose how to spend it even if someone else disagrees with my spending choices. And I have the collecting urge too, only what I collect is mostly books because you never have to iron/dry clean those and they don’t make me feel fat or make my toes hurt.
Re: Sea, whatever we see on a blog is only a tiny fraction of its author’s life, and she seemed like a nice enough girl. Outfit-wise, she didn’t really do much that Susie didn’t do (and do better), but it wasn’t anything I thought too much about.
But now that she’s shut down comments, it has to be said- she got almost no intelligent ones, and given that the girl rarely if ever replied to a comment- like Jennine says, there was no community there – it’s not the commenter’s loss. I know I’d grieve if Susie or Queen Michelle decided to turn off their comments, but in this case I just shrug.
I’ll tell you what DOES bother me about Sea though…the fact that she admits that some of her shoes are painful (I think she once said a certain pair nearly cut her feet to ribbons) but wears the painful pairs anyway. That’s just masochism.
*sigh* it was only a matter of time before she cut contact with us grubby real life bloggers after she took down her blogroll and links a while ago!
Oh, it’s Queen Marie up there! *waves*…great bloggers, they’re just like us, they visit other blogs too…
Completely off topic Sister, but I read your post on bad hair a while back, and I wondered if you’d tried hot oil massages? The colour and texture of your hair sound very similar to mine (black, thick), and my hair generally behaves better if I’ve given my scalp a dose of some oil about an hour or two before shampooing. I know it sounds messy, but once a week might help, and pretty much any oil does the trick as long as it’s not too smelly.
And my grandmother swears (with good reason) that the stuff keeps your hair dark.
She is very young still. I would have to blame mom on this one. She’s 17 how does she have 1000$ shoes ? why ?? and she won’t wear them. I wonder if she has any knowledge of the reality of how other people live. Also did you check out that throw/cape thing. I thought ” oh that’s nice, a thrifted vintage piece ” when I first saw it, then the link takes you to the site, it was $2000 bucks. Making it an utterly ridiculous old piece of dead animal.
I guess I agree with much of what’s been said here, the comments are ridiculous with the odd sensible ‘how are you buying all this crap?’ thrown in there, but by distancing herself she’s retreating further into her Texan billionaire world. So much for learning about the different cultures of her blog readers, all she cares about is what bizarre 70s combo she’s going to put together next. What I don’t get is how people know that she smokes; I’ve never seen a cigarette in any of her pictures, and she’s moaning that people comment telling her to give up. I also really hate her fur coat…
Miggs- Horrible.
Bex – and stupid.
Susan – “Vile” and “style”, I get them mixed up, too. Since I wrote this, I’ve been alerted to the news that Shoes and Mom have each bought a pair of ugly hoof-booties for $595 per. That’s another wheelchair!!!!!!!!!!
Nats – You have given me a great idea! From now on, I will have a weekly “Talk to Sea of Shoes” post, where people can leave comments for her.
Sarah.p – I don’t hear the word bilious nearly often enough.
Jenni – THANK YOU for representing grounded, thoughtful teenage girls. It’s so good to know you’re out there.
Jennine – You might not believe this, but this is the FIRST time I’ve considered the concept of community. Wow. I do feel like my commenters are a community! Shit! Mind blowing. xo
annemarie – Not that she knows what plebeians are.
Well well well, a lot of bloggers don’t want my opinion!
DAMNNN! I had a lot of suggestions and would like to bitch more! but thanks to you sister wolf because I’ll just bitch here.
Unfortunately, she bought those ugly shoes which cost a lot of money not realizing how shitty it looks.
If she wants a shoe with an eye, why don’t she just poke her eyes and put it on a shoe. Besides, she’s a “shoe designer”. DUHRRR! enough said. nyahahahha
Oh and by the way, I can see Sea of shit mom will comment very soon! Yay!
Make Do – Comments aren’t necessary.
Alicia – Man, those fan-girls are scary! Sea of Robots!
Iron Chic – Hahahahaha, she actually used the word “cupidity?”
Elena – Of course, people should do what they like with their money. But at a certain point of conspicuous consumption of luxury items, it’s kind of abhorrent. LET HER BUY A FUCKING WHEELCHAIR!
dust – What a beautiful statement. Thank you for your eloquence. About the nose: I DON’T hate the nose-girl, because her nose is so piteous. xo
Suebob – Ha, you tell me, Suebob!
Moda- Sartre-esque, even.
scout – HAHAHAHAHA!
Ann – Can I add style-challenged?
Hildy – Yep. Agreed.
DG – Oh Christ.
Dru – So she encourages girls to fuck up their toes, on top of everything else!
Queen Marie – You’re just a Queen, you aren’t worthy of a teenage “Style Icon” who dresses like a delusional 40 year old.
Dru – I will try it! My hair is crap and I left a bottle of conditioner in my friend’s car today.
erika – Oh jesus, the throw/cape thing! A nightmare.
Fran – She has outgrown her readers. She must conquer the world! Let us pray for Carol.
WTF – Look forward to our new weekly “Talk to Sea of Shoes” forum.
We got Lou Dobbs off CNN, now lets get the Sea of Shoes cunts off the Internet. Let’s start a website that mocks their every move. We’ll call it “Sea of Cunts.”
The worst thing on that entry was when she wrote that RIP as a a little blurb in the end. Oh you know, just a death, no big deal. Just a PS at the end is fine.
I fucking love those shoes.
My new ambition: getting so famous I don’t have to interact with people anymore. Wait! That’s always been my ambition. I don’t like people much.
Mark – I will just stick with a special comments forum/tribute.
maryann – YES!!!!! That was the worst. “My thoughts go out to her family.” What is she, the president of the united states?!?!?! Is the family supposed to be READING HER BLOG??????? It killed me. Thank you for bringing that up.
WendyB- Hey, stop interacting right now if you want. I can’t look at the shoes without seeing a wheelchair. Paralyzed from the waist down, Wendy.
This girl is about three minutes away from being like, so five minutes ago.
The beauty of it is that she’ll not be equipped to endure her inevitable decline. And it is inevitable. Such is our age of disposable ‘celebrity’.
She’s hoarding her wannabes and followers in the same way she hoards shoes. And don’t they all look very impressive in neat little rows on her shelves? Let’s ‘ooo’ and ‘ahhh’ – Jesus, what a fucking feat.
What’s she gonna do when all her followers grow-up and tire of aspiring to be her? Wrap ’em up in tissue paper, take a polaroid and store ’em away, safe in the knowledge that they exist(ed) and were indeed hers?
Fucking validation via the superficial. How boring, easy and predictable.
am a follower since the blog wars. I really respect your mean-ness to some bloggers, you really are just brave to say what’s on your mind.
speaking of jane, when i saw her said that “comments aren’t necessary”, i was a bit shocked. Cos those readers who wrote comments made her “famous” now. I just wish she thought long and hard before using those words. Just left a bad taste you know. Well I love her, but am not really a giddy teen who drops “OMG” comments on each of her posts. Before all these she’s always thankful for the 100+ comments and now these people aren’t necessary? I feel sorry for her. Got to admit i was a bit hurt. hihihii. Am a reader, now i don’t matter.
Now i really admire karla and rumi for stomaching all the criticism thrown at them.
I guess if you can’t handle any of these opinions from people just stop blogging.
She’s on a ball now right? God bless that kid. She has a sweet face though.
Have a great day!
I have to agree with WendyB- I LOVE those shoes and would wear them in a heartbeat.
Interaction is the driving force behind blogging and now shes totally severed herself from the people who made her popular? Get over yourself!
Happy Thanksgiving you sexy ass woman!
Deena- pooh, who needs online fangirl nobodies when you have Kanye West and (American) Vogue backing you all the way into being a fancypants deb?
I got a completely different vibe off her comment shutoff than I did from Lulu and Your Mom (the girl had a nervous breakdown and later got tired of death threats…just reading the post where she explained why she’d turned off comments made me sad).
I agree with Erika. This is Mom’s fault! That whole we’re-not-mother-and-daughter-we’re-more-like-best-friends nonsense in their photos makes me feel ill. My kids are boys and only little and I know it’s a different ballgame entirely, but it all makes me feel like a comparitively decent (although obviously monstrously smug and complacent) parent.
Oh, and of course the shoes themselves are foul. The face has an extra chin. I speak as one who has curated quite the collection of appalling footwear.
i thought this was a thanksgiving post.
Oh, you guys are just jealous of Ms. Sea of Shoes! Come on, don’t you all secretly want to be her and live her glamorous life? And get to wear all those shoes? This is only the beginning- she is going to be everywhere soon.
Andrea- her glamourous life is in Texas, of all places. Suburban Texas. I don’t think too many of the people reading this want to live there, and no amount of designer shoes would make me want to condemn myself to it (apologies to anyone who does live there though).
And she can be everywhere if she likes, it’s just that the way she justified her comment shutdown made her seem snobby and snotty- especially with the timing of it.
Andrea: Why don’t you go and have sexual intercourse with some glamorous penis shaped shoes and leave us alone?
I wish you could see the pile of spew that I just threw up all over your horrible post.
andrea — oh good, someone’s finally come up with the brilliant, “y’all just jealous” defense! if this were only true, then hip-hop artists and 12-year-old girls on internet comment boards everywhere would be masters of discourse. (do i need to tell you they’re not? probably. andrea: they’re not.)
for the record, no. not jealous of sea of shoes. i’m jealous of susie bubble, because she’s got more style, energy, and ingenuity in her little finger than in shoes’ whole body. i’m jealous of Queen Michelle, because her legs are much skinnier than mine, and therefore she manages not to look slutty in her insane dungeon wench get-ups, which are by the way far more interesting than shoes’ closetful of hamfisted attempts to purchase “edginess”. ever notice how no-one whose opinion you care about ever has anything good to say about shoes’ style, which i would generously describe as “very expensive clothes. worn together”? (do i need to tell you that hip-hop artists like kanye and shoes’ legions of tween fangirls are not exactly great judges of cutting edge fashion? probably. andrea: they are not.)
she is just an overpriveleged teenage girl, not especially stylish, and with a tin ear for the economic reality of her readers and the world at large of “let them eat cake” proportions. (do i need to explain that reference to you, because you haven’t picked up a book recently? probably. andrea: look it up on wikipedia.)
love scout!
I assume andrea was being sarcastic, but in case not – oddly, it never occurred to me to be jealous of Sea of Shoes. I live in a grubby but utterly alive part of inner London where you can’t turn a corner without bumping into a composer or artist or poet. My clothes include dresses I sewed myself by hand, cardigans my 90 year old grandmother made me, shoes I found in antique shops after a long walk by the Regent’s Canal, and almost worthless pieces of Edwardian silver my husband bought me when I was a teenager.
I’ll never go to the Crillon ball, but I friends come to my house and we drink cheap wine and sing stupid songs at my piano, or we sit in pubs several hundred years old and dream about being mothers one day, or getting our novels published, or who we’ll fall in love with tomorrow.
THAT’S what makes me a bit sad about her blog. Because I’m afraid she thinks there is value in Anne Demeulemeester shoes and balls where you will never bump into your friends in the loo, or parties where everything was made by professionals, and not laughing knocked together in your own kitchen with a group of friends over a beer.
And I’d rather have one night in my home-made dress eating untidily iced cakes in a room full of people who love me, than wear a thousand couture gowns to a thousand balls.
That sounded really fucking smug. Apart from anything else you’d struggle to find a roomful of people who can stand me for more than about half an hour at a stretch. I just mean – sometimes it’s OK to not have many shoes.
Stepping away from the keyboard now.
Glad to be of service sister. Looking forward to re-opening the communication Chanel to SOs with you as the conduit! Oh jane, look what you’ve forced us to do!
I find sea of shoes disturbing on a few levels
First, that she adds the tragic death of somebody she never knew as a one sentence side line, look, I do think about mortal and complex issues, not just shoes.
Second, her never ending display regarding her lack of original thought, I wonder about why she never wonders about the joy & freedom of being 18.
Third, the juxtaposition between her father and mother, are those two really a couple? I dress very differently to my husband, for sure, but we do look like we have met each other. Seeing those two in the same post explained a lot.
As for Gala Darling, her brand of narcissism entertains me. She usually has a few interesting links with each posts, and I suspect she is a bit more tongue in cheek than some of the other popular bloggers.
Have any of you checked the site Regretsy? Much mirth supplied.