Who would have guessed that one of Breyer’s most unconventional paint jobs would be mimicked and sold as footwear? Not I. Imagine my astonishment when I spied this while shopping last summer:
Remind you of someone? And someone else?
Yup, our friends Montana the Bighorn Ram, and Discoheart, Breyer’s 2022 April Fool’s Day joke model (who, I will add, was never put into production, unlike this year’s AFD SM models). I stared at those shoes, and stared at them. I had no intention of purchasing them, but was so struck by the notion that I could wear Breyer’s weird black filigree pattern I lingered there, still staring of course. One of my kids came up and commented, “Those shoes look like that weird goat thing or whatever it is you have.” Proof that even a non-Breyer collector recognized the unusual decorator color pattern, lol. No, I didn’t break down and buy the shoes- I have Montana as my official black and gold filigree representative.
*Photo of Montana and Discoheart are from Breyer’s website.
Looks like Breyer was ahead of the curve for once.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! I still laugh at the fact those shoes exist!
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