New Vegan Shoes and a Tumblr that will Open Your Eyes through Art

I added some more vegan shoes on pinterest today.

vegan go go boots

white converse high tops.

vegan birkenstocks because I have really been reminiscing about my old pair. They were so comfortable, and incredibly real birkenstocks for all their hippie-ness, are not at all vegan.

These little babies. Converse! Pretty cool right?
Some nice classic “thongs”.
Anyway check em out on my vegan shoes pinterest board!
After you have done that, turn your mind to more troubling matters.

Check out this blog by an unknown tumblrist: I Have Seen Another World.

Through pictures and dreamy captions….it tells a story of a war.

All of a sudden you see it as a war…that’s going on right now…and has been going on for thousands of years…against our fellow earthlings.
It’s incredible. This blog really opened my eyes. Wish I knew who created it. I recognized many of the photos on it as Jo-Anne McArthur’s.
Check it out, and check out the Holocaust Comparison Project by David Sztybel if you didn’t already. It is very ….interesting.

My Non Leather Life T-Shirts and Visions of a Vegan Lifestyle Brand

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A dream I have is to have my own vegan lifestyle brand. A la Martha Stewart.

Of course, everything would be animal cruelty free. There would be no leather, wool, suede, rich calfskin linings, fur trimmings etc. Everything would be fake.

One thing I love is the aesthetics of different companies. Some companies want to be all high fashion, and others are inspired by things like old movies.

Some companies are loud and proudly vegan, preferring to shout the truth about what is happening to animals from the rooftops (OlsenHaus comes to mind). Others prefer to simply present a non leather option with a more subtle animal rights message (Good Guys Don’t Wear Leather comes to mind).

What would my imagined company do? I think I would try to make a brand centered around the fabulous lifestyle of the most well equipped vegan ever–by that I mean, a vegan who never needs to hunt on the internet for cool shoes and what not. Oh no, she has it all already. She has every non leather item you could ever want.

What kind of girl is she? She is a very old fashioned, romantic soul. She lives alone, or perhaps she is married, or perhaps she has several BEAUX, who bring her fresh flowers.

She has a vintage car, and she lives on a farm, a vegan farm though. Maybe this farm grows sprouts or micro greens. She has a big greenhouse full of tropical plants which she collects on fabulous plant hunting and preservation vacations. She has a lavish bed full of DOWN-FREE comforters and pillows. A pair of tan non leather driving gloves lies by her bed side table.

She has a closet of non leather shoes. She has a cool fake leather jacket that looks like she found it in a thrift store. She has faux leather pants for when she needs to impress say, Prince.

She has hats, many hats–but with no wool in them. She has floral couches, with no leather trim. Even her car–the seats are upholstered with faux blue leather.

She likes to fashion herself after a gibson girl, lucy honeychurch from a Room With a View,

a pre-raphelite painting. She wears a golden circlet and flowers clipped to all her shoes.

She LIVES…MY NON LEATHER LIFE.

A little fantasy for today.

Oh, and I made t-shirts!! Comment below if you would like to acquire one.

What Raw Foods Taught Me

business cardGood Evening,

I was thinking about veganism today. I have been doing a great job with being vegan. In fact, not being a vegan no longer even enters my mind.

It all has to do with raw foods I think.

I wanted to be a vegan for animal rights reasons, and I still cannot believe what goes on every day in the world of factory farming and farming in general not to mention labs, but for some reason it became so much easier to be a vegan once I started reading about how fruits and vegetables are the healthiest things for you.

Somehow this never sank in before when my mom told me that vegetables were good for me or whatever. I now WANT to be as healthy as possible–there are so many immediate benefits. Anyway, it’s just really cool to me how my priorities have shifted…I now feel like there are so many vegetables, so little time. I no longer feel like I have nothing to eat as a vegan.

It is a great perspective to have as a vegan I think. Luckily for us, not participating in a cruel system is also coincidentally extremely good for your bodily health.

ripe papaya on a tree. it wants to be eaten!

I have been getting into the raw foods world, reading people’s transformational stories on their raw food blogs and what not. It is really a pretty cool world. I’ve gotten into sprouting sprouts because of it, and now I’m interested again in one of my first passions in life that has lain dormant for many years, gardening and growing plants from seeds.

If you want to start sprouting, get This sprouter! It is the best. And check out sproutpeople.org and Ann Wigmore, the sprouting guru.

I thought this article “Natural Health for the Not-So-Healthy” had a lot of good raw food resources in it. But start with Victoria Boutenko. If you’re interested, she will get you fired up. I feel like so many raw food transformations I’ve read about begin with reading her book Raw Family.

Victoria Boutenko (my fave).

Vegan Shoes Out of an Old Movie from the Good Guys Spring Collection, and Musings about my Raw Foodism

an imagined vegan banquet

Hello Hello.

I have two great great posts coming up. Two interviews with some awesome vegan people. I know you will enjoy….

In the meantime, I am home on a Friday night, browsing the net to see what the latest happenings in the vegan shoe world are. Despite all the great companies that make great “intentionally vegan” shoes and all the cheap shoes that are “unintentionally vegan”, I still am often frustrated by the slim pickings in the vegan shoe world. You see so many cool leather shoes, and so few cool NON LEATHER shoes. I hope one day, much nearer in the future than we think, that reverses.

English babies converse with a goose

I have completed 1 week of raw vegan food, by the way. It was such a great experience. I now I am eating healthy foods primarily, for maybe the first time in my life, even though I have always considered myself a very healthy eater. I am really eating fruits and vegetables now as the staple of my diet. I love it. I feel like I gained so much knowledge in the last two weeks of what nutrition really comes down too. Natalie’s advice was spot on–Victoria Boutenko and Ani Phyo. Get their books. They are the best!

acceptable dinner on a raw food diet

Ok on to more exciting news. Well, I don’t want to sound like an advertisement for any company, but I really like the Good Guys shoes. I like their whole menswear, quirky, vintage movie, aesthetic. I was, no joke, so excited when I saw their new spring line coming out. It is so cute. See for yourself.

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If you are a reader from way back, you know I love my vegan saddle shoes. I wear mine all the time. I wish all vegans could be recognized by the fact that they only wore saddle shoes, lol, jk.

My favorite of the collection has to be those pink shoes! I love them. I love cotton candy pink.

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They also have colored loafers, my other shoe staple. But my favorite is the white loafer. This is really a Woody Allen, vintage movie kind of shoe. Love it.

Screen shot 2013-01-18 at 9.25.29 PMThese are also so rookie magazine, school girl. I need these…oh no.

These are so cool too!!

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Ok well, I could go on. But get ‘yer vegan shoe loving butts over to their website and check it out yourselves, if you so desire.

Hope you all have a happy weekend. I think there is some big vegan bake-off in NYC this Sunday. Anyone planning to attend?

xoxo Victoria

The Ghosts in Our Machine

film director Liz Marshall and Norman from The Ghosts in Our Machine

 

Tonight while obsessively “browsing” tumblr, I came across this blog post which was reblogging someone saying “No excuses. Go VEGAN!”. The person who reblogged it had added a huge list of sarcastic reasons why veganism sucks. It had been reblogged like 5000 times.

So many of the reasons were just really missing the point. I hear these kind of reasons for why PETA is evil all the time. Yeah, PETA is not politically correct. They relate the treatment of animals to the Holocaust and Slavery. Yeah, they annoy and offend people in the streets. Yeah, veganism doesn’t respect some cultures’ traditions of  lamb eating or what have you.

What I don’t get is, isn’t it more evil to torture and murder living beings than to offend someone on their way to work?

PETA does good things. So do vegans and vegetarians.

PETA does good things…in bikinis nonetheless

It reminds me of that Kurt Vonnegut letter I posted a while back where he talked about his respect for life.

The respect for LIFE itself is the most important thing.

People understand this when it comes to humans, but not to animals. Throughout the history of western civ, all the philosophers and thinkers have spent so much time thinking about what elevates us from our “animal nature”, how we are unlike animals.

But let’s face it. We ARE like animals. We ARE animals. Every person who has ever loved their pet knows this. I guess more people need to spend more time with animals or something to understand what is so obvious to some…. bacon isn’t “bacon”, you know?? It’s a highly intelligent being.

Amazing documentary

Anyway.

I guess I’m thinking about all this as an introduction to something that I think is going to change a few people’s minds about things.

I’m so excited for it.

It is a film, by director Liz Marshall, called The Ghosts in Our Machine, which follows the amazing animal rights photographer Jo-Anne McArthur as she goes undercover documenting all the ways animals are used and abused by our society.

Isn’t the name Ghosts in Our Machine so powerful. It’s called that after the idea that when our society became more industrialized with big factory farming operations, animals suddenly became invisible in our society, hidden away in these huge factories, with literal killing machines *shudder*, living these lives where nobody really can see what’s going on inside.

Amazing name. Amazing point.

I had been keeping up with this film on their facebook page, but I guess I hadn’t gotten around to seeing their trailer. Or maybe I had seen it, but only after reading all these books about animal issues spurred on by this blog and the amazing commenters on this blog, did it really hit me over the head when I saw it again recently.

The trailer is SO good. The cinematography is beautiful, the music, everything, is like REALLY good.

Also following photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, whose work is so powerful–it’s the perfect angle–as Liz says in the interview, a true David and Goliath story, one woman against the machine, one woman trying to change the world through her art.

Jo-Anne McArthur

Ok so I said it.

I had the HONOR of talking to the director of the film Liz Marshall and asking her a few questions about the film.

I will be posting the interview hopefully by tomorrow for you to listen to. YIKES! I am no Oprah, Ellen or Tyra, but I hope you enjoy it. It was a thrill to talk to the creator of someone doing something so big and important in the extremely important world of animal rights.

I will be keeping you updated on this film, because I can’t wait to see it!!!

In the meantime, watch the trailers… You won’t be disappointed.

Readers, I hope you enjoy, and check out Ghosts in Our Machines website, (they have a lot of cool stuff on their website such as vegan coaching by the way) and their facebook page.

And also HI to all the new readers. I think someone posted my blog to reddit–amazing!!

Whoever did that, thank you. Feel free to like my facebook page where I have been sharing some cool vegan articles, vids, photos and stuff like that from other cool animal-ish orgs.

Ok happy weekend guys!!!

The Best Vegan Gift Guide You Will Read This Year– Happy Holidays!

Come gather ye readers round the yuletide log, and open your presents I wrapped for you in leaves and twine.

In other words, it is time for the Holiday Gift Guide!

Now you have all been very naughty. Since none of my lovely readers suggested any vegan gifts via my fascinating facebook page, I guess this gift guide is going to be all about ME.

As a recent vegan, (I used to be just vegetarian) these are the items I truly WOULD want for X-Mas. I know I have probably written about most of them before, but sometimes I get a “collect them all” mentality. I fixate on the same things…and the longer you want something, the more you know you want it, right?

My list, if you please….

1.

These awesome Jcrew-esque vegan mens boots. I have them in black. I splurged, but they are so great I want them in tan. Be warned, these are very UNfunctional boots sadly. They have literally NO traction and if you wear them in the snow you are truly living dangerously, but they look so cool…..HA. Available at Mooshoes.

Worker Boot in tan from Brave Gentleman X Novacas $250

2.

I do not yet own a shoe from the inimitable GOOD GUYS. After doing my Interview with them, I feel like I just want a piece of the company. I now know so much that went into the company, how nice and cool the people behind it are, and the adorable vision for the brand. I like these red desert boots the best. They are so cute.


ayita red desert boots from The Good Guys

3.

I have written about these before as well, but I still want them.  Once I saw this girl wearing a mini dress with over the knee boots, probably not an uncommon occurrence, but I thought it looked amazing. These are from vegan company Cri de Coeur.

Olivia Tall Boot $180

4.

Ok, Allison’s vegan gourmet chocolates look really good. This is a necessity since I’m dying for chocolate. Every time I’m in the store, I look at labels of chocolate hoping to find vegan chocolates–haven’t found any yet! I want the toffee from here.

Vegan Toffee from Allison’s Gourmet.   I can’t look at this anymore…..it looks too good!

5.

A weekend getaway at the Bed and Breakfast Guesthouse at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. So…I read The Lucky Ones, the creator of the Farm Sanctuary’s Book. I found parts of it quite hilarious, and although the farm is closed to visitors for the winter, if you stay at their cabin, you can spend time with all the animals. I’d love to see for myself what it is like to spend time with rescued farm animals. I’ve always wondered what farm animals are like…never having been lucky enough to get to know one.

A place where you can count sheep to go to sleep? VERY dreamy.

6.

Well, this pink bag is still on my wishlist… I wish I knew the exact shade of pink as screens can be deceiving.

Vegan Pink Bag from Modcloth $54

7.

The last time I went to mooshoes in NYC I was really impressed with the look and quality of this bag from vegan company Matt and Nat. It was beautiful! Better in person.

Matt and Nat Malone bag $135

8.

You can never go wrong with anything from Lush. After reading the incredibl, thrilling and eye opening book Free The Animals by Ingrid Newkirk this year, I realized that it is just as important not to support testing on animals, as it is to not buy leather or wool etc. Animal testing, especially and without a doubt for things like cosmetics, is horrific. Lush is amazing in that they do not even work with any suppliers who support animal testing. So much of their stuff is vegan, and I feel like they were one of the first companies to bring veganism into the mainstream with things like their bestselling VEGANESE conditioner. They also do animal rights demonstrations. They are a really unique cool company. Ok, how about some bath bombs. You can’t go wrong.

Lush Bath bombs. $ 4-10

9.

Ok guys, this one is for the edgier among you. I forget if I posted this on this blog, or my other one, but I think Harnesses are a really cool look to add to your outfits!! Yes, I am talking about wearing these out in public over t-shirts and evening wear… They are very edgy. 1 time I wore one out over a grey worn t-shirt and not only did I feel like the coolest person in the room, and everyone asked me about it…I was the coolest person in the room because of my AUDACITY to wear one of these babies in day. These became pretty mainstream a while ago. Topshop was selling them…but of course in LEATHER. I searched for non leather options….buying mine from the pole dancing wear shop Body Binds. I love mine! However I found these on etsy today–Vegan Harnesses!

Sorry for the nudity in this photo! I think these are mannequins anyway. I recommend wearing over clothes for a XENA warrior princess/Anjelina Jolie in Tomb raider kind of look.

Miss Malwia’s Etsy Store

Also check out Body Binds (made from elastic so definitely vegan).

10.

For the 10th day of Christmas….I would like a print of a photograph by the amazing Jo-Anne McArthur. Her photographs are so beautiful, moving and meaningful. They express so much that can only be felt. She is going to be the subject of a film, The Ghost in Our Machine, that I think is going to possibly change the world.

I will soon be talking more about this as I have an exclusive tell-all interview with the DIRECTOR of the film….hehehehe. You will love it.

Anyway, this is the print I would choose.

This says EVERYTHING about our relationship to animals. “an animal” and a “human” gently touching hands. It is like they understand in this instant how similar they are, and yet their lives are so different–two different fates. One can help the other. Both can help the other. I think animals are one of the most beautiful and mysterious things on earth. It is a gift we get to know them and spend time with them.

That’s what all this gifting and being vegan is about anyway…trying to do what we can for animals. They do so much for us by inspiring wildness and magic in us.

True art.

Jo-Anne McArthur’s prints start at $125 dollars and can be purchased here.

Merry HoLIDAYS, HAppy Chanukah, Festive Solstice to you….

And please, any other gift ideas I have missed…comment below!

Cherry Red Vegan Loafers and Rookie Magazine’s Eye Candy!

I found these cool hybrid vegan red loafers on modcloth.

They are odd!

They remind me of something you would find at a thrift store and would be used in my favorite online mag ROOKIE”s eye candy photo shoots.

Endless entertainment looking at those photos at the link above.

I love how rookie uses normal looking girls, by which I mean all kinds of girls..whoever the photographers friends are usually… and the photo shoots are shot by teen girls. So cool.

They use clothes they have or clothes from thrift stores.

(Another post I wrote on Vegan Loafers here)

Also some cute  animal photos on my facebook page here (MyNonLeatherLife).

Riding Boots, Vogue Magazine, and the Love Story of Linda and Paul McCartney

A vegan shoe update for you.

American Eagle has a lot of non leather riding boots out right now. I do not have a pair of riding boots, but always wanted one.

I really like this one.

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These vegan riding boots can be found by clicking the aforementioned words “vegan riding boots”.

I think I will try these on in the store as they are receiving mixed reviews, but look  quite cool!

These boots remind me of how in college while awaiting my classes I liked to go to the library and read Gourmet magazine and Vogue.

In vogue, they would always have some socialite or movie star with an incredible house in the English country side with a bunch of riding boots lined up in the mud room.

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(stella mccartney’s english contryside house)

They would frolic through the scottish heaths, the English moors, the Welsh Dales or what have you, and …probably go hunting…though i hope not.

It reminds me of the pictures I have seen around of none other than Paul and Linda McCartney.

Linda Mccartney was a photographer and I have heard though never from another source, that Linda, like so many hundreds of thousands of girls of her generation, LOVED Paul McCartney. The way I heard it she loved him so much that he just felt it…and in kind of a “the secret” like way, he felt it and married her. How Romantic.

From reading Pamela Des Barres, “I’m with the Band” I understand the magnitude of catching PAUL MCCARTNEY. The cutest of the most desirable men on earth at that time.

She turned him vegetarian and made him a huge supporter of animal rights causes. They lived on a farm in Scotland with lots of animals and raised their children together. He taught her to play keyboard and they started a band together.

Dreamy much?

She tragically died at 56 of breast cancer. She was a huge animal rights activist until the end even inquiring if the drugs she was given in the hospital were tested on animals.

I hear this book “Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs” is beautiful and I WANT it.

What a love story.

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facts about me

Hi guys,

I

(selfie)

have been nominated for an award by a wonderful commenter. I’ve always longed to connect with other bloggers and get one of these awards, and now, through this blog, I have! Someone has awarded me

the beautiful blogger award.

The heart swells with pride. How awesome! Thanks you from the bottom o’ my heart, Amber. I love connecting with other people who happen to be reading this speck of dust in the COSMOS that is my vegan blog.

You have to list 6 random facts about yourself.

I really need to do this anyway since more people are reading the blog than ever before, and liking the blog on facebook where I am posting some maja cute animal vids and animal related news (LIKE MOI!!!) … so I should more properly introduce myself.

Herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre goes………………………………

Random Fact # 1.

One of my passions in life…besides blogging and observing the animal kingdom…is….POLE DANCING. Yes, you read that right. I have been taking classes at Sheila Kelley’s S Factor for maybe a year and 1/2, and it has changed my life. I go all the time. It is such a wonderful form of creative expression and it has given me the ability to freestlyle dance to express myself whenever I want. It has also allowed me to exercise in a majorly fun way, but it is so much more than that. For some reason pole dancing really changes your mental attitude in so many ways. It taught me to appreciate being a woman, KNOW I am beautiful, and know that I have no need to doubt my inner hotness–whereas before I was quite insecure. I tell everyone I know they should do it—even the men in my life LOL I know pole dancing might still sound controversial to some, but once you try it, you will see how wrong everyone is about it, and like me, you might come to reevaluate what you thought you once knew about how pole dancing is for LOOSE WOMEN and how it is wrong for a woman to have the audacity to be interested in anything remotely sexual..or should I say sensual…. in public… LOVE IT!

Random Fact # 2

I have 6 siblings–5 sisters, and 1 6 year old brother. How adorable. It is great to have so many sisters…and a brother. It seems like a lot, but I wish I had 10 more. The only down side is…there is only so much parental attention to go around. However, this is a trade I would gladly accept again if it were actually offered to me….which it will never be since it has already happened. Mind blown?!!

Random Fact # 3

I have yet another passion in life. And that is blogging on yet another blog. This is my personal blog where I write all about my life…and post PICTURES…thousands of pictures…in picture poems…I call Picture Stories.

Basically they are combinations of photos and captions which express my feelings about life. I have compiled 7 magazines of these Picture Stories which I fittingly call Picture Stories Magazine…and I am so proud of them.

(n image from Picture Stories Volume 4: Night Thoughts)

They are gorgeous, and sometimes I like to stare longingly at them wishing I could enter into the pages. I have a facebook page for them HERE which you can like and where you can purchase the mags and also view many photos of the pages in the mag. My magazine is truly a labor of love and has, along with dancing, given me a creative outlet–so important…everyone should have one. Art is a beautiful beautiful thing. So many things to love about it. Oh one thing…beware cause some of the pictures are NSFW! Art is never appropriate…so they say….

Random Fact # 4

Dogs. Dogs. Dogs. Dogs. Dogs. DOGS.

Dogs were one of my first loves. I had 2 growing up. They would both sleep on my twin bed. How adorable. I think dogs made me understand that animals, like stars, are truly just like US.

They get scared, they love, they have personalities…blah blah blah…so obvious!!!

Dogs are incredible, magical creatures. We should worship them, like the Egyptians worshipped cats.

Random Fact # 5

I am scared of cats. I like them, but never having grown up with them, I don’t understand their violent ways. They bite for fun? They are so unpredictable…I am always on edge with a cat nearby. My friends make fun of me because I know so little about cats. What can I say.

Random Fact # 6

I long to own a business some day. I think entrepreneurs and people who start business are great. So inspiring. If only more people in the world did their own thing, followed their own callings, how many more awesome things would we have in life….so much more awesome. However, I know from personal experience how difficult it is to start a biz. I tried to start a vegan shoe company!!!! and it was very hard and eventually I gave up…or should I say, took a break to come up with a new plan of attack. I will perhaps write a post on that later. SO much respect for people who did it, like all the companies I feature on this blog!

well that’s 6!!!

If there is anything else you would like to know about little old MOI please comment on this post and I will answer….ask away my dearies… I love to be asked questions.

Thanks so much to the beautiful blogger amber for giving me this award. May you blog for a hundred more years.

If you have a blog will you leave a comment with the name of your blog…consider yourself nominated…do this challenging challenge of listing 6 random facts about yourself and send me a link to your blog so I can know who Y’all are!!

Oh yeah…one more thing.

Happy WEEKEND BABY!

ttys.

Vegan Desert Boots, Vegan Mary Janes, Vegan Cyberpunk Shoes, Thoughts on the Movement, Book Recs, and Green Smoothies

Some things.

1. Have you heard of Toronto Pig Save? I just listened to this amazing interview with the quietly heroic founder Anita Krajnc who explains the effective activism practice of “Bearing Witness”. It is so interesting. She got the idea from reading Tolstoy who was always trying to change whatever he saw that was sad or bad in his community. She is a regular but clearly very compassionate and intelligent person who one day decided to just do something, and it grew into a movement. She is a huge reader, who talks about the Grapes of Wrath and Tolstoy during the interview.

2. Remember the interview I did with Natalie. I got the book she recommended and it is amazing. Green For Life by Victoria Boutenko. I have been drinking green smoothies daily. It is so much fun grinding up all the fruit in the vitamix. I started giving them to my dad every morning too. (I work for him). You got to read this book if you are interested in improving your health. Natalie was right that instead of worrying about GOING vegan, simply becoming aware of how unhealthy your diet may be will make you almost naturally make a shift.

3. I read the book Free The Animals by Ingrid Newkirk that the documentary Behind The Mask was inspired by. It is incredible. Five stars. It has made me more and more interested in this whole movement of people trying in various ways to help animals and change the world. It makes me want to try to do more with this blog, like perhaps trying to submit my article about how to find non leather shoes online to different blogs and stuff so that more people could realize how truly simple it is to stop buying leather shoes. It is amazing how when you truly believe in something, the motivation comes naturally, and it’s not about marketing or networking or getting more followers but helping other people and getting what you know out there so other people can know too.

4. I have found some really cool shoe options on modcloth recently.

I found

a. Vegan Desert Boots.

Porch Lounging Shoe

b. Vegan Faux Suede Chunky Heeled Mary Jane Heels.

This is a shoe I always wished I could have because they remind me of the blogger Making Magique who I did a post on here. (Though not many of the pics I tried to add showed up).

Midnight Meander Heel
and c.
Staying Top Notch Boot

I just thought these were really really cool. Unfortunately they run small and I’m a 10-11. Amazingly these are totally vegan.

You like?
As always,  find my nonleather life on facebook. And let me know if you know of any other good websites about animal rights you guys like…I’m in research mode.
-Victoria