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Just for Kicks

Some boots are made for walkin’. Others? Simply Goody-Goody Two Shoes. As for making girls feel like they’ve got diamonds on the soles of their …

Curse you, slingbacks. You’re a hard habit to break.

Neapolitan, a bastion of urban chic in the impossibly blond suburb of Winnetka, won’t make matters any easier. They’ve just added a shoe salon. Your top ten will soon include numbers like Celine’s red patent-leather pumps, gorgeous camel-colored zip-front boots by Narciso Rodriguez, and Anya Hindmarch’s whimsical flats (the only pairs available in the whole of Chicago). It’s the perfect place to indulge your ongoing footwear fetish.

Still dreading the 40-minute hike from the junction? Fair enough.

But one look at the selection of Rickard Shah, Edmundo Castillo, and Kaki Daniels — and you’ll be singing a different tune all the way home.


Neapolitan, 715 Elm Street, between Green Bay and Sheridan Roads, Winnetka (847-441-7784).