You find me now, deep in the throes of a "Goldilocks moment"...having taken her "too hard, too soft, just right" bed manifesto to heart...and applied it to hi-top sneakers. Pierre Hardy started it...with a style whose piping echoed that of his bags...but they were too expensive and, at the time, just too hard to find. Then came Isabel Marant...whose shoes were beautiful but, with a 3" internal heel, too high for a klutz like me.

My "just right" came courtesy of Marc by Marc Jacobs...khaki canvas...black leather...dressier than a sneaker...a comfortably cool option for pounding the summer streets...