As usual, the NYT picks up on as few commonalities seen in a few more or less obscure places and turns it into a trend: this time, it’s fringe, baby:

The shoes you see in the picture are Paul & Joe Neo fringe high-heeled sandals, $600 at shopbop.com, and fringed gladiator sandals, $730 at Etro (NY store).

I trolled teh interwebs but found scant evidence about this so-called trend. Ok, here’s some: Candela “Flecos” fringe sandals, $225 at Intermix:

And Fendi peacock fringe sandals, $540 at eLuxury:

Prada did the fringe thing  a season or so back:

Personally, I’m not a big fringe person–but I’ll have to agree with the experts: if you’re going to wear fringe, keep it limited to one item on your body (no fringe shoes AND bags at the same time, or, God forbid, fringed suede jacket–brrrr!).

Whatever you do, however, don’t put any fringe in your step that looks like this:

…unless, of course, you wear them while doing your household chores, case in which we’re willing to look the other way.