Spring is upon us and cute shoes are a must-have item if you’re even thinking about traipsing off to the park to ogle the guy or girl of your future dreams. After all, you butt may look great in that denim, but who cares when they see the awful shoes on your cloven hooves!

Keep, based in Los Angeles (where they know a thing or two about looks) offers a variety of snazzy sneakers, but my favorite has to be this new take on the classic Converse Chucks. The Keep Guerra is a high top with lounge aspirations, done up in cotton canvas with corduroy or wool herringbone accents.

$96.00 at KEEP COMPANY

You know that I love color. I love it in super-saturated shades of hot pink and bright yellow and deep turquoise. I especially like it when they’re all together.

I know I may be fairly alone in that love, but if you share that desire for eye richness, you’ll love this Random Stripe Shima Scarf designed by Tomoji Matsui as much as I do. Or maybe even more! It’s made of 70% acrylic and 30% wool with fringed edges, perfect for torturing the cat with. It’s a generous 63” long and 11” wide.

$55.00 at MoMAstore .

Puma makes more than shoes, of course. They also create athletic gear and accessories from track pants to workout tops to backpacks to reversible Kimono-style satin jackets.

Yes, girls, from Puma’s Nuala line comes this perfectly adorable (two words I rarely use except to describe miniature fruit tarts and this one drag queen who lives downstairs) deep blue floral jacket. It has very light padding, making it perfect for bringing on your next trip to look extra chic, with bright green accents on the cuffs. The jacket reverses to solid blue if you’re of a more formal mind.

$250.00 at PUMA Store.

Why be coy? Sometimes, as this site says, you just need to get laid, so say it loud, say it proud, “I GO ALL THE WAY.”

This deep red T-shirt designed for the ladies by Ben & Renee puts it all up front, no if’s, and’s or but’s. Whether you’re going out for a night on the town, or joining friends at a party, or you just have the need to get your groove on — there’s probably not another article of clothing that provides a sense of cover and tells everyone exactly what you’re there for.

$32.00 at Krudmart.com.

Women, sometimes, have it lucky. Not as far as the whole underwear thing, of course. I certainly don’t envy them wearing underwire support and pulling nylons up their legs and getting this part strapped into that torture device, but when it comes to utility, they have so many choices it makes my head spin. Purses in all shapes and sizes, bags for every purpose and occasion, and all in a huge variety of colors and materials.

Take this Kate Spade leather clutch. It’s apple green on the outside and a lovely pink inside, with room for cash, coins and credit cards galore. It snaps close so everything stays inside and it’s big enough to carry what a gal needs for a night out all on its own, but small enough to slip inside a purse when she needs, well, everything else.

$99.98 at Smartbargains.

Sometimes an article of clothing comes along that is both incredibly attractive and manages to encompass your ideals all in one, neat package. It’s rarer when that article of clothing is also incredibly affordable.

From glarkware’s line of limited-edition T-shirts comes this orange beauty honoring fashion blogsters gofugyourself, two girls who know a thing or two about bad fashion when they see it. And what better way to brandish your own flawlessness than by announcing quite clearly to everyone you encounter exactly what you think about their clothing choices today?

$20.00 at glarkware.

Las Vegas is hot, hot, hot this year (honestly, it’s hotter than hell every year), as the city gets ready to celebrate its 100th birthday in May. So slip into something cool to show your support of the real Sin City.

Gama Go’s Ninja Kitty Vegas T in sleek silver shows the cunning cat standing front and center along the strip, pockets filled with loot and her head swimming with the scent of strip clubs and poker chips. Wear this sexy shirt when you’re cruising the boulevard in search of your next big win.

$28.00 at gama-go.

One for the ladies, and I do mean ladies. This ain’t no shirt to be wearing around if you ain’t got class comin’ out from yo’ ass, my gal pals, this is too choice for mere skanks.

On a beeyooteeful black T-shirt, our friends at Some Product bring the taste and luxury of hair salon window graphics to your chest. “Fur Diamonds Champaign” would say it all, except you also get a full-blown (and I do mean blown) beauty queen worthy of any Jacqueline Suzanne cover complete with hot pink nail highlights. Chic!

$25.00 at Krudmart