Flat purple leather boots

I was on my way to get some last minute goodies last Christmas Eve when I ran into a vey coloful middle aged woman sporting flat purple leather boots and among other things, a Santa hat. “What was so cool about that?” you ask. “Everyone is sporting colored flat boots.” Well, hers (we’ll call her the Christmas Elf) were bright puple and leather, not suede, like a majority of the colored flat boots.  The Christmas Elf’s boots were definitely vintage, something she had pobably rocked with a mini skirt in the mid-eighties.  She had me lusting for them because they were simply different fom anyone else’s that I had seen- bright purple and leather, not too garish, still funky, but not cheap looking  either.  Generally, this would be a little flashy for my taste, but the fact that I hadn’t seen any purple leather flat boots and perhaps the lack of sunlight in Atlanta had me craving something vibrant and had me lusting after these retro numbers.  I checked with Zappos to see if I could find  a match that had the retro-eighties look.  Just as I had suspected, I could not find a decent match. Everything was either suede, heeled, or dark purple.  I did find two pair of  suede boots that  come in at a close second:

Gabrielle Rocha Winter, 69.95

Steve Madden Tyller, 79.90