Oh dear. I thought that Chloe’s giant Fall 2011 colorblocking failure was limited to bags, but it looks as though whatever virulent strain infected the Gaby Bucket Bag has also come after the Chloe Patchwork Python Knee Boots. The prognosis is not good. I believe that the death of taste is imminent.

Look at all that python. So much python! Enough to make one or two day bags or several smaller clutches. It looks like beautiful snakeskin, but the combination of the colors is just so very 70s. And not 70s in a good, nostalgic way, either. 70s in a “the old appliances and linoleum in my grandma’s kitchen” way. I think it goes without saying that “unremodeled kitchen” is not a good look. Not in a house and certainly not on your feet.

Of course, the Chloe problem has been solved by now. Hannah MacGibbon has been shown the door in exchange for Claire Waight Keller, who put on a good Spring 2012 show with much tasteful footwear contained therein. For now, though, we have this boots to remind us where we’ve been and where we’d like to go. (Hopefully someplace far, far away from these boots.) Buy through Net-a-Porter for $2480.

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