School spirit is always in style. What's one of the best ways to flaunt yours? Customize yourself some shoes in your school's colors.

The Adicolor kit you see at right was one of the first customizable shoe kits, by Adidas in 1983. Now of course, you can do your customization online.

Choose your favorite shoe designer below and get to work, you fabulous artists, you!

Keds
Nike
Reebok
Converse
Vans

Our pick for this season is Keds, and if you really want to take the Artistic License Bus to Customization Town, check them out on Zazzle.com!

Gymboree is one of the biggest names in quality clothing for children, so it should come as no surprise that they have a great catalog of school fashions (and Halloween costumes- yes, already).

Gymboree has fun and playful couture for kids that are fun and playful. Convenient, don't you think? Like many of the other popular retailers of kidwear they understand the value of the the classics, and as such build upon them. The result is a solid line of timeless clothing and clever accessories.

For example:

Right after the boys of Proenza Schouler and current designer darling Alexander Wang release images of the chic heels from their upcoming footwear lines, another CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund outfit announces its plan to branch out into accessories:

Via Spiaga has tapped Vena Cava to create a mini capsule footwear collection that will debut on the brand's runway at the Chelsea Art Museum in Manhattan on September 6th. The four different styles of shoes that are going to march down Vena Cava's catwalk will compliment the "designers' "Egyptomania" theme for spring, with muted, sun-bleached colors, strappy sandals and pyramid hardware."

We have never purchased a pair of Via Spiaga shoes, but we're confident the collaboration between the footwear company and Vena Cava will be swoon worthy. Especially if there are a pair of gladiator sandals in this collection.

[via WWD]

There's something so deliciously naughty about peep toe heels - add patent leather (in red!) and the sexiness quotient of these shoes just goes through the roof! That is why we'd probably never wear these Stuart Weitzman heels with a miniskirt or even tight jeans - it's just too obvious. But adding these to a more demure outfit? Now you're talking!

The Children's Place is a one stop destination for the shopping parent of school-aged children. Hence the name.

They carry everything from shoes to underwear and everything in-between. Their clothing is cute and classic, sticking to seasonal influences more than those of pop culture. The result is a timeless quality that will look great on kids now and their younger siblings later.

See for yourself:

There's something about a closet full of colorful sandals and ballerina slippers that bring a smile to our face. Who doesn't love the vibrant colors of summer? These dainty shoes in sorbet-inspired shades are just the thing to wear when more skin's exposed - even the shyest among us can bravely wear bright colors when they're far away from the face, and they look lovely with the clothes we love to wear on our days off.

Admittedly, the invisibility cloak we waxed lyrical about a couple of days ago is much cooler than this latest sneaker to come out of the Nike camp, but we're suckers for fine cuisine, well, yummy-looking giant cheeseburgers, more specifically.

We're almost certain that no one from Nike's in-house design team had anything to do with the creation of this edible sneaker, but if they are smart, they should definitely start manufacturing a similar prototype. Preferably, with no ketchup or tomatoes, thanks.

What really gets us about the hamburger shoe, though, are the noodle shoe laces and the little piece of what appears to be a slice of tomato that doubles as the lace holder. Brilliant.

[via Mr. Gadget]

Oooh, these sandals are the perfect party shoe! Can't you just imagine dancing away while perched atop these delicate gold-toned heels? We can! And we love them in pink because it brings out the softness of the fabric - they look deceptively comfortable, but are definitely meant for dress-up nights.

You'd wear these at a formal event, of course - but we think these would also look amazing peeking from underneath black pants or dark wash jeans when paired with a dressy top.

(They also come in black, if pink isn't your thing.)

$298 at Kate Spade

If you're sitting at your computer reading Styledash, odds are good that you're a shoe fanatic. And there's no shame in that. So let us introduce you to Solestruck, a company that wants to fuel that footwear addiction!

We're not going to lie. When we heard Jessica Simpson was coming out with a line of shoes, we were prepared to poke fun at them. Not that she doesn't wear cute shoes -- we just didn't picture ourselves as the Jessica Simpson Footwear-type.

However, we kept finding ourselves drawn to shoes from her collection in the shoe department at Macy's, and when we admitted it to a fashionable friend, we found that she, too, had fallen somewhat in love with Jessica's shoes. And we're not alone -- according to Eric Q. McCoy, the owner of Heels.com, Jessica's collection is the number one seller.

Ah, the Gap. We fell into you so long ago that we've forgotten what it was like to be free of your charms. We can scarcely recall life before you- there was a crowd and a food court and rows of glass doors that led to a warm place with a bright orange light in the sky. We don't miss it.

That's why when it was time to dress our family in corduroy and denim for the start of the school year we took our spawn to yours: GapKids.

Yep, you read that right. This beautiful shoe comes to us courtesy of Paris Hilton. We didn't want to like her shoe collection, but, the fact of the matter is, she's got some hot shoes in there, and this is one of our favorites for several reasons.

First of all, we love a bright red shoe, and this Catalina Heel (available at Heels.com for $78.99) certainly covers that. It also comes in a bunch of other colors, if you're not partial to ruby slippers.