Every season, there is a shoe that I am completely and utterly obsessed with. I dream about this shoe, I buy clothes to wear with this shoe, and I stalk my representative to find out when new I will receive this shoe.

This summer, I was on AGL’s Instagram account, and there was an image that stopped me in my tracks; it was the Virna Two-Toned Stretch Boot. I stared for a moment, then called Brianne, our AGL rep, and said incredulously: “how did I miss this? Not sure if it wasn’t around for our virtual appointment, or I just missed it!” I begged and pleaded to have some made for The Shoe Hive. It was everything I love in a shoe. It was brown and black, which is all I tend to wear in the winter, it had a little heel which is all I need these days - but I don’t always want a flat. It was pointy, which I always find to be more flattering, and was the perfect height. It was somewhere in between a boot and a bootie. It was shoe perfection.

I have called Brianne at least once a week since the factories in the coastal LaMarche region of Italy re-opened this fall, asking when we might receive the boot that would make my fall wardrobe complete. Well, we just unpacked them last week, just as the temperature dropped.

I can’t wait for you to see them, and I can’t wait to get them on my own feet!