I’m opening up a question from one of our readers, who is desperate to find these boots:

(as seen in the original context here).

I’m afraid I couldn’t be of much help. The only thing I could do is go hunting for beautiful button-embellished shoes, and hope one of them will strike her fancy. Buttons are a wonderful embellishment on shoes if used wisely; here are some of my finds:

  • Frye “Adrienne” boots, already a bestseller, and for a good reason–they’re beautiful, and they look comfy, too. $398 at Piperlime.

You can go vintage, in which case I particularly love these sexy velvet Victorian boots , ca. 1880(unworn, no less!):

It’s a shame that during this research I didn’t really find anything that looked like the boots that started all this, in order to answer our reader’s question. Perhaps one of our savvy readers can help?