Close your eyes, tap your heels together 3 times and think to yourself, there's no place like home!

What do you think guys?  Are these keepers?  I'm confuddled and cannot decide!  

The reasons why I'm madly infatuated with them are: 

1. They look 86.78% identical to J Crew's Darby Glitter Loafers, which by the way are so beautiful and so cleverly crafted and so sleek and so ladylike and SO BEAUTIFUL;
2. And because they look like the Darby's they look like a gentleman's formal dress slipper;
3. They're $38+ tax, which is a fraction of the cost of the Darby's ($215+tax USD);
4. And they're sparkly.  So sparkly.

They are Steve Madden but are very cheaply made unfortunately.  When I first picked them up off the shelf, they felt feather light and I was excited.  But then I put them on and the insides felt so rough against my skin, like I was wearing a paper shoe.  Then a closer examination showed wonky stitching, discolouration where glitter had fallen off and lots of residual glue.  It's like an 8 year old paper mache'd this shoe, plastered 1/2 a bottle of white glue on the outside and dumped a bucket of glitter to decorate.  Seriously.

But I bought them anyway, thinking I could convince myself to love them.  But they're just so poorly made!   I fear that after a few wears, the front where my foot bends when I walk will start to crease.  I'm afraid it's back to the store these will go!

** OOPS.  I guess in talking to myself (or blogging) I kind of decided on my own what I need to do, despite asking for ya'll opinions!  My bad!  ...  thanks for listening (reading) tho! hahaha :D