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.“
Fucking hell, there’s a lot of semi-literate teens posting comments here suddenly.
Dear Semi-Literate Teens,
Sister Wold does not like bad grammar, ok? And say what you will about Sea and her fucking Shoes, but I’ve seen nary a grammar mistake on her blog. We must give her that.
Now I know you feel passionately about this issue and that it was this passion that quite possibly what sent all sense of linguistic propriety out the proverbial window, but I would ask you to bear in mind, please, that this blog is for highly literate grown-ups and their finely-chiseled hate, not for semi-literate teens and their poorly expressed angst.
So, until you learn to write intelligible sentences (yeah, I’m talking you you Denise, and also to Lightly, who actually can write grammatically but somehow still manages sound really OFF. Though I must say, I do find pretentiousness in a teenager cute, so points for that): get out of here. You can sit at the table with the grown-ups only if you are prepared to employ the rules of good grammar.
Am I right, Sister Wolf?
I really hope there are no typos in any of the above. That would be some serious egg on my face.
eeeek! egg!
I love you annemarie. In a frightened sort of way.
Annemarie… Please, tell me foreigners with another mother tonge girls aged 32 are allowed to write here even if my grammar is not too good…
Does anybody really care about the crap a teenage talks about shoes? Come on… Ok, it´s funny to talk about how fucking stupid and empty her existence is. There´s people that says that the life of a blogger is more than his/her blog, but in this particular case I found no reason to believe that her life is more than a sad try to tell the world how great she is because her parents have enough money to buy her all the expensive trash she wants, because I don´t see this girl earning her own money in order to afford all this stuff. Fantastic way of growing up a child.
And as for the people that says that maybe detractors of SOS are jealous… I am proud to say that as most of the people of this world I work to pay my flat, my clothes at Primmark and all my fucking stuff, what means I do something in my life.
Oh, and if any of you remember the Village People, have a look at the post of today at SOS… last pic.
Sea Of Shoes,
I am assuming that you read all the hype about yourself on the internet, and thus will have found this post, so here goes:
We all know that the reason you are becoming increasingly more respected and recognised in the fashion industry is because of that special thing about you that marks you out from the common man or woman like myself, or most of the readers of your blog. It isn’t a particular skill for writing, or that you’re a renowned beauty – your entries are articulate enough, sufficiently spell-checked, and while you have a lithe, fresh-faced, teenage kind of prettiness, you’re no 80s-style Super and I suspect, in your mollycoddled little heart, you know that – or because you have an incredible, preternatural gift for assembling thousands of dollars of your mother’s clothing into something that can reduce a grown stylist to tears.
It’s because you’re wealthy. You know that, right? You can afford to spend seven weeks of my rent on a pair of shoes, and people get a vicarious thrill out of that, the same way they do from watching Cribs, or Gossip Girl, or googling aerial views of Britney Spears’ mansion. You have the unique and very special ability to put clothing together and make it look like a million dollars, when really it only cost closer to five thousand or so. And I hope you know we’re all very grateful for that.
Why am I suddenly so filled with vitriol when I’ve never been bothered enough to comment on your blog before? The fact that you referred to a young woman’s suicide in a casual afterthought, tacked onto a post about your own self-importance. If you really cared, maybe you could have donated a thousand dollars to a mental health or suicide prevention charity instead, as a tribute to Daul and the distraught, grieving family you so graciously sent your thoughts to, instead of on those monstrous shoes.
But thoughts are just as valuable, right? At least, they are if the person thinking them is wearing SUPER-NEAT shoes.
Ooh. I’m not jealous of Sea of Shoes girl, but I think that I am now Jealous of Sarah P!
annemarie, don’t be such …….. some of us come from non-English speaking parts of this planet and we do our best. You have no idea how lucky you are to have a passport that you have, so don’t push it, or else I’ll ask you how many foreign languages do you speak and write……… Let’s blame it on Shoes!
Ok, ok, I’m SORRY! Non-native speakers get a free pass.
I’m still cracking the whip on the semi-literate children though. I can’t help it. I’m doing it for The Future. Whitney Houston said I must.
sarah.p– I love you too! Can I stop by your house and drunkenly frolic around the piano with you and your friends sometime?
I’m with Philippa on the Daul Kim front. That was one young lady who had mad awesome style, but her style wasn’t the thing that left the strongest impression on me- it was her personality, and the fact that she was funny, frank and not afraid to speak her mind even when the mind in question was in a dark place.
I also think Sister Wolf would have liked her despite her not-always-perfect grammar.
When it comes to children, I’m getting my little whip out, too!
Children shouldn’t be allowed to purchase any 1000whatever worth of shoes until they learn how to spell properly.
And iliketoforkmyself is one blog which I am seriously sad to see getting taken down (I never knew Daul except through it- does it sound silly to grieve for someone you only know from reading their blog?). Especially since it’s because of idiots who quoted huge bits of it out of context instead of doing their research or even reading it properly. Makes me glad I never mentioned my own mental issues (didn’t leave the parental units’ house for six months) on my blog- she deserves better than to be picked over and generalised about.
I like comments, but only when they are intelligent and interactive.
I don’t care one way or another whether Jane took away her comment options, I did not like reading them anyway, as most of the comments were obsequious uninteresting and pretty much annoying to me.
I am jealous as hell over how many shoes she has and how young she is though. I have to work my ass off to obtain the shoes and clothes I have, and usually I wait for major sales. Oh well.
Grammar and spelling are totally overrated…(don’t destroy me SW!)
The dictionary ain’t my bible..blah blah
Sarah P nailed it with her comment:
I wouldn’t trade my beautiful, friend-filled, struggle-filled city life for all the hidden-platform wedges in Texas!
If you are jealous of SOS, that’s your own fucking doing. Get a life!
Good grief I hope all these c**ts have become your patrons – geez what a lot of comments. I must have posted my most boring comment ever but in my defence I was in the midst of finishing my dissertation – which is now done!
Sea of shoes – sea of shit, perhaps I can do a lecture on this, it might be a full house!
Does Iron Chic need to sea (on purpose) someone – is she talking to you or the ‘others’ – sorry Iron Chic just trying to clarify. Don’t cha be messing with the Wolf!
sheesh…srsly? I’ve always thought Kayne West’s doucherie was contagious and it would seem I was right!
I couldn’t give a fuck about sea of shoes but I love you. nuff said.
Iron Chic, that was indeed a rather ambiguously worded comment. Are you drunk?
I was speaking to the unecessary Grammer Police up there ^^^^.
As long as you get your point across, who cares?
I don’t waste too much time over spulling.
I would never mess with the Wolf, however.
She is my favorite Hater.
And some commenters were admitting their latent jealousy over Sea’s shoe collection….so I was saying, get over it!
Oh wait, that was you Annemarie. Damn, this comment thread is long!
Let’s keep the ripping-apart focus on Sea where it belongs!
Sarah P I always knew I loved you. And your post made me miss London so terribly it nearly brought a tear to my eye. That part about drinking cheap wine and singing songs round the piano, I feel like we must have crossed paths at some point 🙂
I guess I don’t really have any beef with Sea of Shoes personally. She seems nice and her Mum seems pretty cool too. But you know? I never am a fan of rich kids hijacking poor kids sports. Let’s just be honest for a second, blogging started as one of those activities for those of us who will never grace the pages of the Vogue social section of inbred looking wealthy types. Sea probably has enough money/connections to get to debutante status all on her own, so why hijack blogging from people like me (who put away two paychecks for one pair of awesome shoes and wear the shit out of them)? And like many have mentioned above, she really doesn’t seem too active in the social aspect of blogging, so why bother? As I said before in blog wars, much of blogging is about relating to people and sharing ideas. It’s not about allowing people to idolize you and then throwing them away when your popularity grows.
I’ve never spent $1100 on a pair of shoes, but I’ve done my share of conspicuous consuming so I probably shouldn’t throw stones.
Shutting off comments is a stupid move though. If you don’t want any feedback, why blog; just write in your journal!
Good god, her most recent post.
“Ooo the nice man even GAVE me – me, the girl who can buy any pair of shoes she wants – a new pair of $13423423432 Chanel shoes that I’m probably going to toss aside to gather dust in my closet whilst children starve with bloody feet!”
It’s as if she’s doing it just to spite us all.
With her blog, I always need to remind myself that she is still a teenage girl. I know I am only a few years older than her, but I know I’ve changed a lot from when I was 17 or 18. Hell yeah, I would write about some ball in Paris and boast it to the world. I would feel like hot shit! And I would write about all my new purchases. I wouldn’t think twice as to how it reflected to people who passed by my blog. I wouldn’t think about economic situations, or my average readers’ hourly wage. Especially if I’m just used to the lifestyle that I grew up in.
I know for me, I don’t care too much about how I come off in my blog. I’m aware that it’s kind of a piece of crap, but I still enjoy it.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that with her, I try to think of her as Sea of Shoes Co., the blogger personality, not Jane. I do roll my eyes at some posts and think another is cute. Although I do have to say that the RIP at the end, was one of the first times I’ve lost respect.
I am more curious to see if she will look back on her older posts and be like, “Yeah I came off a little ____ here”. I know I do that all the time.
Whew……..okay…discuss!
This girl is completely out of touch with reality IMO.
Geez, people need to stop whining about Jane. If you think she is such shit, why the fck do you want to comment on her blog anyway? Seriously, get over it, a lot of people can afford shit that the rest of us can’t.
Lightly – Agreed, thank you.
Denise – Her face is like a nice well-preserved 30 yr old, in my opinion.
Deena – Yep, the interaction is everything!
Jill – Back at you, sweetie pie xoxo
Dru – The whole “deb” thing is just bizarre.
Beck – Hahaha! It’s nice to meet another curator.
Girl World – Ha, was it the word “shit” that confused you??
andrea – No one will know that you’re being sarcastic.
Dr – see above.
Alana – see above (although penis shaped shoes = good idea.)
Scout – Well, I hope andrea had learned a lesson here. As for Sea’s “style,” I truly find it godawful. Any street kid in the “Fruits” series is a billion years ahead of her in style. She has inherited the very worst of Mom’s style-blind enthusiasms, eg. horrible garish 80s crap.
sarah.p – Too fucking right!!!!! Not smug, just wise. xo
Braindance – That poor father is slaving away at some job in order to provide enough spousal support and child support to enable the ex and the daughter to squander $$$$$$$$$$$$ on shoes. He should go back to court to revisit the support agreement, using the blog as evidence.
annemarie – You go, girl.
sarah.P – She is very scary when angry. But you two are a GREAT match.
Sil – Well said. Re Village People: Hahahahahahahaha!
Philippa – Sometimes vitriol is the only sane reaction. This is one of those times.
Kim – She rules.
dust – annemarie is very passionate about language.
Dru – It’s appalling that Sea would mention that girl’s suicide so gratuitously. It actually shocked me.
dust – See, you and annemarie are soulmates!
Dru – I once couldn’t leave my apartment for 6 months, too! Thank goodness we survived. xo
arline – But would you trade your intelligence and dignity for shoes? I’m only jealous of brainy women, and Sea does not not exude much of that.
Iron Chic – Let’s all be jealous of sarah.p!
Make Do – I am thrilled for you. And, Iron Chic is Good, not Bad.
Imelda Matt – Aw, you always know just what to say to a girl. xo
annemarie – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Iron CHic – Why, thank you!
Aja – Have we ever discussed London together?? I lived there too, the happiest years of my life. We will go back, to hang out with sarah.p.
Iheartfashion – IF only people would follow that advice.
Vee- Oh god that creeped me out. I don’t think I can go back there now.
Maryann – I know I was once very very immature, but I was never that shallow and deluded. Age doesn’t excuse everything!
Liz W – Correct.
Lizzo – You have missed the point entirely. Try harder.
No I would not trade anything that I am for “things”. I love my life, and I do value much more than shoes. I love the mind and all the layers of intelligence that can be explored. I am interested in the deeper meaning of why we are here on earth, and why we get caught up in such stupid bullshit.
Abstruse and arcane are not easy to talk about, but they take precedence in my world view.
I just go to the surface and get the wants sometimes, thats all.
Oh Lizzo,
Glibly saying that “lots” of people can afford shit that others can’t is comparable to shrugging off reactions of confusion and anger about poverty, since, y’know, even more lots of people can’t afford to eat ….and shit. Nihilism is cushy and all, but it’s kinda bourgeois.
Indulging in wonder at Jane of Shoes’s fortune and stylistic flamboyance is conducive to contemplating the trappings of wealth and whether material gain is anything to admire too deeply (that and…the girl’s preternaturally annoying; most fashion bingers are at least fun, decadent bitches instead of rubish would-be popstars). If Jane and the fam weren’t so demonstrably wealthy and still shopped constantly or courted Vogue press, she and her (metaphorically) middle class bunch would be deemed crazy and tragic *snap*…like that. Sea’s wealth *is* the very crux of her image; it functions as a shield and a soapbox in one. This is fascinating and tragic and goes way beyond the reality if whoever Jane herself happens to be.
When Palin overspent at Nordstrom’s or Imelda (Marcos, not Matt) od’ed on Charles Jourdans, the public took notice ’cause these constituted extreme cases of consumption way beyond collecting. Now Sea isn’t such a big fish, but some backlash in blog comment form is understandable. Jane trying to pass her compulsive spending off as “the collecting bug” is a damned insult to anyone with taste, joie de vivre, or an understanding of resale value. Warhol, Yves Saint Laurent, et. al. roll over in their graves in high-heeled bunion-like discomfiture at the artless nouveau riche of it all.
Jane and Mommy are exceedingly lame, k, that’s why it’s so difficult to resist complaining. The mother buys every last piece of animal costume jewelry and every elephant belt on ebay and flips it for triple plus figures–not ethically corrupt, but definitely entitled and cheesy–something to be expected of a monopolizing corporation and not just a nice harmless mom with quirky tastes and design aspirations.
Hyperbole: if everything stupid and worthless went uncommented upon or became begrudgingly accepted, every U.S. President forever would be George Dubya. That’s why I’m commenting at you, imaginary Lizzo. Just messing with Texass.
… but judy aldridge comments here and she seems like a nice enough lady.
i’ve got to jump in for little jane here, guys. she’s only 17.
when i was her age aeons ago in the 80s i thought everybody who had it should flount it. it just didn’t occur to me that my vuitton noe wasn’t that appropriate as a keepall for school, or that i was being a complete fucktard with my custom made western boots back then (this was germany in the early 80s, and nobody wore that kind of OTT shit back then). my parents had money, and i thought it was normal. when they got divorced and things changed completely and forever, i had to face real life though and had to grow up fast, but that’s another story.
i just think that jane might be completely oblivious to the scorn she’s been inviting. she’s just a teenage girl after all.
what i do understand is the irritation the “RIP daul kim” afterthought caused. this was a disgrace.
ps: don’t slay me, dearest annemarie. i’m not a native english speaker but I’ve given my best 🙂
Jane + OMG Jane responses vs. bitter diatribes + kissing sw’s ass?
its all worthless swill.
or at least, if one is, the other is too.
Theresa, not bitter, just honest. No ass kissing necessary.
That said, maybe Jane was being horribly bullied by a lot of the comments and if that’s true than I don’t blame her for shutting them off. Every time I looked at Lulu’s page and saw the comment “chi chi chong” it made me want to beat the shit out of the comment leaver. For shame.
arline – And you are an artist, not to be confused with a vacuous consumer.
Kate – This is what I MEANT to say, thank you.
marmelade wombat – She does seem to want to be nice. But she has certain moral obligations that are relevant to us because she and her daughter have sought our attention so assiduously.
Stella Mayfair – I don’t know how much can be excused on the basis of ‘just a teenager.’ She uses the internet and is aware of social injustice and so on. She is a shameless rich kid who went to a children’s hospital wearing Miu Miu high heels to let the dying kids decorate a fucking chair with markers.
theresa- No one has to kiss my ass. If you have a valid argument, bring it on! Bitter diatribes vs LOOK AT HOW MUCH I SPEND ON SHOES, I don’t know. The bitter diatribes involve some insight and humor, I like to think.
Aja – I don’t know anything about Lulu. Racist morons are a scourge, though, and should be told to fuck off and/or blocked. I think that Sea just wants to aim for “sophistication” now, which involves distancing herself from the fangirls.
It may be the Mexican in me, but I often think about how unsafe it is to display one’s face + name + location + purchasing power so prominently on the internet.
Coming from a cheapo eastern european, straight up Mariana. Such guileless wealth advertisement is pretty much a privilege of the WASPy. But who knows, maybe the Shoes have one-off Commes Des Garcons handguns or a Margiela laser home security system. “Drop the lace-up Ann D’s or I blow your cheap highlights off, you copycat scumbag!”
In the case of Theresa sticking it to the bitter diatribes: with the tripe I banged out, she has a point. I was jet-lagged and pissed after a lame Thanksgiving punctuated with the desperation of the first whiffs of forced recession-time Christmas cheer.
Jane and Mommy are an easy target but they’re just another side to the capitalist fallout: like greedy recession looters but too polite to steal. All apologies to them, their sycophants, and any designers who were above casually slandered.
Now dontcha think all her would be followers are going to go somewhere else to see their vacuous-ness in “print”?
xx
No, no, no. $1,000+ for those wedges is SO wrong. I had a similar pair back in early 90’s I wore to death for under $40.
Dear annemarie,
When I grow up, I want to be just, like, you.
Lightly.
I usually enjoy reading the SW bitter diatribe- otherwise, why else would I come back here? She seems to be genuinely pissed off. I appreciate that.
The rest of you seem mildly annoyed and melodramatic.
Dru excluded.
Theresa- you didn’t let me off the hook on account of my past mental issues, right? But you’re correct- I’m not annoyed so much as disgusted by the tone of that post, even if the actual subject of it (losing her comment space) leaves me cold.
I admittedly did follow Sea of Shoes in its earlier days for a while… there’s something to be said for eye candy, and back then I found nothing wrong with Jane’s blogging personality. But out of curiosity after reading this discussion I went back through her archives, and wow! Has she (and the blog, respectively) changed over the two and a half years it’s been around!
While she still flaunted the designer goods in the old days, her posts were more likeable and innocent and she actually talked about thrifting and diy-ing. Now, vintage = $2000 fur ponchos from high-end boutiques, not random Goodwill finds. And instead of the cute, awkward outfit posts with realistically cluttered backgrounds, now every blog post is an I’m-in-an-artsy-editorial photoshoot, with ever-changing hair colour. She used to talk about exams and field trips and hanging out with her friends! So what the hell happened? I guess once the praise and attention started rolling in, she felt the need to keep up with appearances. AND buy clothes and shoes that are just ridiculous because they’re so “incredible” (she used to actual describe her sartorial choices more too, whereas now it’s more just “I wanted it”. So while the blog now, on a superficial level, looks slick and gorgeous, it’s completely lost any form of soul or character. Ah, fame.
I do agree that alienating her army of followers by disabling comments was a bizarre and kind of questionable tactic.
I found you through Jenny at MFAMB. I love you.
C, i completely agree with you.
jane’s blog was fun at first, but she has changed.
Perhaps she will go to college, graduate and then get a job that brings her closer in touch with reality once she has to pay her own bills.
I think you all are being a little harsh. If you feel spending $1000 on shoes is a mistake, that is your opinion and you’re welcome to it, but you cannot expect everyone to live by the same principles. And yes, I’m sure there are starving children who could use her shoe budget, but can’t the same be said for all the non-essentials we buy? Everyone participates in materialism in one way or another. The fact is that, yes, SOS is wealthy. You can’t blame her for that. I’m sure the amount she spends on clothing is proportionate to that wealth, but that doesn’t mean her family doesn’t contribute to good causes as well; I can think of two charity-related events that she posted about recently (I think the proceeds of both went to support a Children’s Hospital in Dallas). So you see, coexistence is possible. In all seriousness, though, if any of you were rich, would you donate ALL (or at least the majority) of your extra income to starving kids in Africa? No. Even if you did, would you expect the rest of us to be as saintly?
I AM disappointed that she took down her comments section, though. It’s a concrete fact that most of the people on there were overexcited fan girls, and the criticism that DID appear was really not that earth-shattering. You’ve got to have thicker skin than that, especially if you want to work in fashion. I guess it just shows how insecure she is, underneath it all. It isn’t surprising, when you consider how fast her popularity has grown in the past year. She probably still can’t believe it herself. The smugness that has cropped up in her writing as of late is also a symptom of that insecurity. It’s unfortunate, but hopefully temporary.
However frustrating it may be to see the girl’s bank account propel her up the ranks (and I agree that it has), it’s unfair to blame her for something so totally beyond her control. She, like the other 500 billion fashion bloggers out there, myself included, is just expressing herself using the resources made available to her. Those resources just happen to include expensive shoes and a pedigree.
I never comment on posts but I have got to say I totally second kalleydgangyo. Why are you all so viciously bitter? Yes, it’s a rare lover of fashion who can read Jane’s blog without feeling a pang of envy – how nice would it be, to pass your days orchestrating photo shoots, attending Chanel couture fittings, and dropping $1000+ on designer shoes. But that is her reality, and she can do with it what she likes. This whole robin-hood styled arguement, “she’s so detatched from reality” “she spent that money on ugly shoes when she could have bought a wheelchair” “rich spoilt ugly bitch” – is really nothing more than poorly concealed jealously. What we see on the blog is only a fraction of her life, and who are you to conclude that simply because the girl enjoys making use of the blessings afforded to her that she doesn’t have friends, support charities, go out for fast food and generally act like any ‘normal teenager’? Infact, if you actually read the blog you’ll see evidence that all these things are actually a part of her life. And even if they’re not – fuck it, who gives a shit? Get over yourselves and grow up. Somebody’s always going to be richer, prettier or more priviledged than you. You can make a choice to accept that as a fact of life and concentrate on what you have, or go on bitching about the unfairness of it all like a bunch of sullen thirteen year olds whinging “but Mom, Jane Aldridge’s parents buy HER Prada!”. For chrissakes, you’re even planning to make your own blog to mock her every move? No wonder she turned off her comments!
I really don’t envy the girl for her clothes or the hefty price tags they come with. What IRKS me is the fact that she has snubbed the same group of people that brought her the fame. I doubt she would have magazine spreads, shoe lines, and galas to attend if her blog had initially consisted of just images without any interaction from her audience. Without people gushing in her comment section, linking her blog, etc. I highly doubt her site would have achieved the same amount of popularity. So her statement of “COMMENTS AREN’T NECESSARY” is a real slap in the face for all of those that were there giving “vapid” comments from the beginning. Blogging is a process of GIVE and TAKE and this child has bitten the hand that fed her.