Last weekend, I was minding my own business on the subway when a group of women began to laugh at my outfit. Perhaps you think I'm full of myself for assuming these women with likely very full and exciting lives were spending their precious time together discussing little old me, but I knew they were—that's because they were pointing and staring at my feet. So, was I barefoot on the train? Wearing fish-shaped shoes? No, I was wearing a pair of chestnut brown knee-high boots once owned by Laura Reilly and purchased at a Liana Satenstein closet sale, to be exact. More importantly, they were Maison Margiela Tabi shoes .

One of the freakiest shoes in the history of mankind, Martin Margiela's Tabi shoe (born at his 1988 runway show) was inspired by the Japanese split-toe socks that date back

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