{"id":2218,"date":"2009-06-09T23:28:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2009-06-09T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T07:28:37","slug":"knock-off-shoes-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/knock-off-shoes-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock-off Shoes: Yes or No?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fake-acne-by-jeffrey-campbell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2219\" title=\"fake-acne-by-jeffrey-campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fake-acne-by-jeffrey-campbell-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"fake-acne-by-jeffrey-campbell\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fake-acne-by-jeffrey-campbell.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fake-acne-by-jeffrey-campbell.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeing these Jeffrey Campbell shoes for <a href=\"http:\/\/needsupply.com\/womens\/asti-in-pewter.html#\" target=\"_blank\">$118<\/a> made me recall in sickening detail my quest for these shoes, below, by Acne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acne-shoes2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2220\" title=\"acne-shoes2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acne-shoes2-185x300.jpg?resize=185%2C300\" alt=\"acne-shoes2\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acne-shoes2.jpg?resize=185%2C300&amp;ssl=1 185w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acne-shoes2.jpg?w=342&amp;ssl=1 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I paid around $450 for the Acne shoes, which I found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openingceremony.us\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Opening Ceremony<\/a>, a store that is &#8220;curated&#8221; like a fucking museum, with a similar hushed air of High Art about it.&nbsp;\u00a0 I saw the shoes from across one of the store&#8217;s little rooms, where a horrible, nerdy woman at least 6 feet tall was counseling a blond soccer mom on some sandals. I guessed correctly that the nerdess was a Stylist. Imagine taking advice from a giant bespectacled nerdess?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the shoes wait patiently in my closet for their second trip outside the house. I still love them; I just don&#8217;t want to fall down.<\/p>\n<p>So: Fake Acne shoes in a nice pewter color. Would you buy man-made shoes for a fraction of the cost of the original?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing these Jeffrey Campbell shoes for $118 made me recall in sickening detail my quest for these shoes, below, by Acne. I think I paid around $450 for the Acne shoes, which I found at Opening Ceremony, a store that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/knock-off-shoes-yes-or-no\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-zM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}