Those Steve Madden Slide-Ins We All Had: Throwback Thursday
There was a time when clogs and slide-in shoes were all the rage. Were we just too lazy to buckle shoes? Were flip flops just too invasive to our toes? I don’t know why these got so popular but they totally did and when I saw the picture below, I cackled from my spirit. The memories of the many tacky alphets that accompanied these came flooding back and I shook my head. Good times.
Get into the platform because we need extra height without feeling like we’re wearing heels. But that black bandage across the top, though? HA! You’d wear this in the summer and your feet would be sweating because it was made of unbreathable rubber and it wrapped around your feet like a band-aid.
Let you not put on lotion good enough. Your entire big toe would be blistered at the end of a day of walking around at the Taste of Chicago in these. And if you had on too much lotion, you’d be slipping and sliding like a fool. And the tan that came from it? HILARITY!
How could your feet be so hot and breezy at the same gahtdamb time? Everyone’s aunty owned these. She’d wear them with the floral flowy floor-length dresses that buttoned from neck to ankle. You know good and damb well what dressed I’m talmbout too.
Steve Madden sold the heck out these open-toed mules! And there were a bunch of knock offs, of course. Chile… there were at least 5 pairs in my house alone.
Do y’all remember these shoes? Did you own a pair? You can admit it here. We’re family. No judgment.
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OMG!!! I remember these, and for some reason I was really just thinking about shoes like these today. And that’s dress with all the buttons was from “the Buckle” lmao!!!
Thanks for the throwback
I am DYING laughing. These shoes, a pair of high-waisted jeans and a black tank top and girl you were READY TO GO OUT. Yes, I had them. Probably bought at Marshall’s though… cuz I’m cheap.
These shoes were a low moment in shoe history. Thank goodness the Steve Madden brand found taste and fashion somewhere along the way cause damn, those were horrible.
Hell yes I had these! They “went with everything”!
Bahahaha went with everything and nothing at the same damn time. WHY did we think these were cute??
I remember the big sack dresses that went with these shoes… Good times
Not ashamed to say I had a pair of these and I LOVED THEM! I used to wear these joints everywhere. Light on the top and heavy as hell on the bottom. Don’t mess around and let your foot slide all the way to front…”down goes Frazier! down goes Frazier!”
Yeah that happened to me a couple of times….
“down goes Frazier! down goes Frazier!”
#dead
Luvvie , have you seen their newest collection? Its literally a 90’s throwback
*sigh* I def had a pair. I’m so mad just sitting here looking at it right now lol.#whyithappen
I used to love these joints…
Now Steve Madden has gone from comfy slides that made blisters…to basic b*Tch stripper wear featuring a line by Keyshia Cole (I saw it today on Heels * Com). I was devastated as strippers rejoiced everywhere. My soul weeps…. *sigh*
Wayment, wayment, WAYMENT!!! Keyshia Cole has a line of shoes?!?!? I ain’t hatin on that sista’s hustle but what now?! My morbid curiosity is going to lead me to heels.com to take a peek. Oh dear.
I had to take a peak….
What. In. The. Name. Of. All. That. Is. Holy!!!!!!!!!
Those shoes scream lack of a real job and common sense.
If your friend tells you the Keyshia Cole shoes look good on you, she is not your real friend.
Why, oh why do they look like multicolored torture devices??? Le sigh.
Oh, but you MUST get your lives from the “How Others Wore It” section of the shoe site:
http://www.stevemadden.com/thumbnail/WOMENS/Keyshia-Cole/pc/2163/3258.uts?mode=viewall
Oh, mercy!
I had a pair of these but the bandage part was brown suede cuz I was classy like that. I amount of times I fell because of that platform is to many to count…sigh #whyithappen
Brown suede – say what now? You special!
These shoes, an ankle length denim skirt and a DKNY tee…my BDay outfit one year. *sigh*
Your comment made me remember exactly how I wore mine. Yep, long jean skirt with high back split, fitted red ribbed tee, and these.
but when you’d finally take that shoe off and start scratching that area the bandage was…LAWDDDD
heavenly.
Yessss!!! Then you look down and realize you’ve damn near scratched the skin off your foot.
Hold up..WAIT-A-MINUTE…these are “throwback shoes”? Um…I just had these on….yesterday. Sigh
I had a pair and rocked them until they fell apart. They were amazing.
And they were so damn heavy!! Ankles was on steroids clopping around in them thick ass shoes, lol.
lmaooooooooooooo @ Ankle was on steroids.
HEAR, HEAR!!!!
NOT ankles on steroids! #flatlined #FixItJesus
I definitely had a pair of these in black and blue. Give me a denim skirt and shirt and I was ready to go!
Used to rock them (knock offs off course) with Duck Head shorts here in SC. So ashamed.
I was crying laughing while looking at these. I definitely had a couple of pairs that I bought from Century 21 and Aldo. I also had a lot of polyester clothing when I wore these. I remember dressing up for an event with my polyester/spandex/rayon blend bodycon dress, these slides and my coach purse. Talk about the ultimate in shabby chic….LOL
These were easily the go to shoes for all occasions back then, especially after you broke them in.I would wear them to work come home, shower change and put them back on for a night on the town. I am so ashamed..LOL
Oh my gosh. Those %$#@! shoes are the reason I face-planted in the middle of the office one morning in [year redacted] with both hands full of papers. I join those who are asking: #whyithappen
Um, I still have mine. And it wouldn’t take much for me to wear them. But alas, I still have double-breasted suits – but at least I don’t wear them. :-/
Girls really thought they was on when they rocked these with a middle toe-ring. *Sigh* Oh 90s fashion, lmao
No! Not the toe ring!!! lmaoooooo
Ah, memories….
Dat toe ring doe…and it jeeeeeest might be one with my initial OR a dangling charm…
I still have a pair by Aerosoles only the bottom part is beige not black. In my defense, I only wear them around the house.
Yeah, I had a pair of these way back when. Although, I thought I was too cute and bought the ones that were twice as high, so I could be that much taller in them. I was 5’0 back then and walking around in a shoe that weighed almost as much as the backpack I had to rock for school. I really think the only bottoms that looked good/decent/whathaveyou with these were denim; I stayed in jean skirts at the time. Yup, definitely on team #whyithappen
“She’d wear them with the floral flowy floor-length dresses that buttoned from neck to ankle. You know good and damb well what dressed I’m talmbout too” << iDied. YES!!!! LMBO!! my Aunt sure did hahahaha!
Guilty again!
Brings back memory, I had a pair of those. I loved Steve Madden
Definitely had a pair! Used to wear a toe ring with them and these shoes, jeans, and a white tank top were my summer uniform! I laughed so hard when I just saw this on fb!
Mos def had these and wore them with everything! These are the reason why I dropped my then infant sister in the Pathmark near the dairy aisle lol
People on FB said it but not here, rocked these bad boys with capris and short pants faithfully in addition to the skirts with slits on both sides of the leg. Baby tees and tank tops from Old Navy, Rave/Rainbow/etc. and thought I was STYLIN. But like others said #whyithappen?
I second the skirt/dress with slits on both sides of the leg…THAT was my uniform with various types of platform shoes, these included.
I have a co-worker who *gasp* still wears them! #whyithappen?
I had my youngest in November 2001 & these were the only shoes I COULD wear! That stretchy part on top saved me. Maternity clothes, hose, & these shoes in cold-as-hell November cuz that’s all that would fit on my swollen feet. #pregnancyshoes
not only did i have the black Steve Madden ones – i had a brown pair and a cream pair made my Sam & Libby – and because i love in Texas, we wore ours with Daisy Duke shorts! ahh, the good old days …
OT Luvvie,
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My Aerosoles were black patent leather. *runs off and dodges tomatoes*
Guilty!!!!!!
A pair of these, my flare jeans, and my belly tee that said something like “brat” or “cute” or some nonsense on the front ctfu. Why Lawd WHY??!?! Couldn’t tell me I wasn’t cute!
I had my baby shower for my first born daughter (I was eighteen) in August of 2000 and I wore these with a jean/spandex mixed spaghettis strapped mini dress with a huge glitter butter fly across the bust.
The saddest part about this story is that my now 13 year old daughter recently wore that same dress she found in the back of my closet. SMH…
http://www.heels.com/shoe-brand/keyshia-cole, Luvvie you’re a computer whiz, is there a way that we can make this whole link disappear? I was so upset that she felt these were normal people cute…
Oh lordo, these shoes. So heavy! So clunky! And a hot summer day wearing those mofos around? The tops of your feet looked like a particularly ripe zombie on the Walking Dead. And don’t get me started on the sweating. Only thing worse in that era? RAFFIA. Don’t get me started on raffia. Oh by all means, let’s BIND OUR FEET WITH ROPE, because THAT will end well. Jesus himself didn’t get torture like raffia wedges.
I had these.. in more than one color….
I also had an able length floral dress…
No buttons though
I think I have three pair now. I know I have a six inch pair that I tried to send back to Amazon and they were like, ‘Sucker’.
Hell, I still have mine. And I still rock them, every summer. Got em from Bakers and my bandage is leather. I had them on during the blackout of 2004. I hadda walk miles and miles in those things to get home. Callouses and blisters for weeks afterwards. I keep a pair of sneakers under my desk. Lesson learned the hard callous way.
How about – rocking a red pair…and sashaying down the middle of NYC streets and literally falling OUT of the shoes on the yellow line. I almost got laid out from these heel heavy slides! Lol
I walked Teotihuacan in these shoes. These exact ones. They were comfortable and yes, made me about 2 inches taller. Wish I still had them~!
Nope. Never owned a pair o dem Herman Munster flip flops. What’s wrong wichyall!?