By "mainstream" I mean not things you saw on high-fashion runways (where things often look bizarre) but in shops, catalogs or retail sites intended for the masses.

Hands down, this was mine: http://www.freepeople.com/marc.....0fb2b9aeb8

I've actually had bad dreams about those shoes.

What was your most frightening sighting in the past year?

EDIT: I forgot to include a description for Michelle. Michelle, the shoes I posted have what looks like a big wooden block for the base. Wrapped around the foot from the instep to back behind the heel and extending up to the knee is an odd, slouchy sleeve of white fabric printed with little floral sprigs. It's so hard to describe because it doesn't actually look like a shoe, it looks like a flowered cloth boot that ends abruptly in a thick wooden block. If I may say it -- IMHO, they are hideous.