{ personal shopper } habitat shoes

today's post comes to you courtesy of habitat shoes, who have asked me to pick my favorite things from their store and share them with you. easy peasy!! now that i've crossed most apartment necessities off my list, and a new season can be felt in the suddenly-crisper air, i'm in full-on wardrobe replenishing mode.

of course, i don't believe that overly-hoggish acquisition helps anyone in the long run (i'm all for considered consumption!), so i've been giving a lot of thought to which pieces i really need to make my fall/winter wardrobe most functional, comfortable, and current.

and that is exactly what's cool about habitat shoes: it's the most ascetically edited e-boutique i've ever seen. the husband & wife-run shop is almost monastically free of excess ~ everything in there has been carefully vetted, and only those things you can honestly imagine living in remain. this restraint on their part leads dangerously toward indulgence on mine; they've made it so easy to convince myself that each of these pieces is an absolute can't-survive-without-it style staple:

{ clockwise from top left: the perfect goes-with-everything, 24-hour clutch; universal-staple trovata trench; layer-with-anything wrap bracelets (i'd buy both the studded & simpler iterations); the perfect everyday, all-weather heeled boot & matches-most-anything evening shoe }

{ clockwise from above left: the next shape in sunnies; a just-special-enough black bag; the most brilliant tux/cardi/kimono hybrid of all time }

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