Remember the game we used to play as kids wherein one proffers the two most awful things imaginable – say, eating slugs or kissing the geeky boy next door – with the question “Would you rather…?” Friends had to choose; we would laugh. We were nine.

As I sit here contemplating whether I might splurge on the Proenza Schouler laser cut sandals I’ve been eyeing since Louis teased me with them in January or the Givenchy fisherman wedge which Barneys dangled mercilessly in a recent email, the thought for a slightly different, updated version of the game occurred to me. Along with a new regular feature here at Cloud of Chaos.

Since I, like most women I know, don’t have the budget to shop indiscriminately for every shoe, dress and handbag that catches my eye, nor do I have the ability to hop on an airplane to every beach and urban boutique hotel that calls my name, I will occasionally ask you, my stylish and in-the-know readers, to weigh an opinion between one tempting thing and another. Spa treatments, home furnishings, destination dining – you never know what dilemma may beg the question.

So, if you had to choose one it shoe for Spring, would you rather…

Proenza Schouler

or Givenchy?