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  • You Pierced My Soul Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • You Pierced My Soul Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • You Pierced My Soul Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • You Pierced My Soul Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
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You Pierced My Soul Classic Shoes

Jane Austen Canvas Classic Shoes

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A love letter in wearable form. These high-top shoes draw from a period illustration inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion, capturing that devastating, immortal moment when Captain Wentworth confesses: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” The artwork—rendered in soft golden hues and delicate linework—features a woman caught in a quiet storm of emotion, a man hesitating in the doorway, and the emotional weight of unsent letters and words long withheld. The rooms around them are awash in genteel clutter: drapery, framed portraits, and elegant chairs—each detail steeped in the ache of restraint and yearning.

There’s a painterly stillness to these panels, like a breath held too long. But that’s what makes them burn—this is the romance of anguish and delayed joy, of the slowest build to the most satisfying, tear-streaked release. And now, it lives on your feet.

Wonders Whispered About These Wares

Powers Bestowed Upon the Possessor

Scribe's Yearning – The ability to hold unsent words close until the right soul hears them.

Hope's Vigil – An enduring patience that waits for love to find its moment, even in the silence.

Anchor of Remembrance – The power to feel what was left unsaid—and to understand it more deeply than any spoken vow.

Jaded Lament Discovery Note

The Laments rarely speak of love aloud. But among
their most prized relics is a pale-washed etching known only as The Letter Never Burned. They claimed it appeared in the corner of a long-abandoned library, curled against a dried ink bottle and a sea-worn compass. Though time made it fragile, the intensity remained—so much so, the archivists swore the room would go quiet every time someone passed it. These shoes are their tribute to that ghost of a confession.


Why the Laments Loved This Artifact

  • Based on an original Persuasion-inspired 19th-century illustration
  • Glowing vintage palette of warm parchment gold and inked black
  • Immortalizes one of the most iconic love confessions in literature
  • Perfect for fans of Austen, tragic pining, and hand-inked grace

Adored By (and Designed For)

  • Hopeless romantics
  • Jane Austen readers and Persuasion obsessives
  • Lovers of Regency aesthetic and literary longing
  • Anyone who keeps a draft of a letter they never sent

Atmospheres Clinging to These Relics

  • Longing and restraint
  • Hope flickering in stillness
  • Literary nostalgia
  • Genteel heartbreak

These Vibes Shall Be the Emanation

A tender stillness wrapped in golden domestic detail.
There’s intimacy, melancholy, and the heavy weight of unspoken love. The entire design feels like it was pulled from the edge of a page, where emotions live in the margins and silence speaks louder than words.



Hymns to Strengthen Thy Enchanted Relic

Lend Thine Ear, Fortify Thy Powers. Invoke these chants whilst donning thy wares, that the enchantment might seep deeper into thy bones.

(1) "Half Agony, Half Hope" – Sleeping At Last
Delicate and quietly devastating - written directly from the heart of Persuasion’s greatest confession.
(2) "The Night We Met" – Lord Huron
Bittersweet longing and the aching sense of something precious almost grasped, almost lost.
(3) "Poison & Wine" – The Civil Wars
A restrained, bruised duet about the agony and pull of love left partly unspoken.
(4) "Sea of Love" – Cat Power
Soft, yearning, and vulnerable—a whispered promise across distance and time.
(5) "The Stable Song" – Gregory Alan Isakov
A weathered, tender reflection on love, memory, and the quiet persistence of devotion.

This mix captures restrained yearning, tender hope, the ache of words withheld, and the fragile, luminous persistence of love across time.

The Tedious but Necessary Bits

  • Size Sorrows Be Gone

    The Laments Shall Stitch Another Pair If Yours Don’t Fit.

    • Fits true, like fate.
    • Removable insole—should you wish to walk a softer path.
    • Crafted from premium materials, blessed and battle-ready.
    • Canvas kissed by design, grounded by a rubber sole.
    • Colors hold fast like memory—vivid, precise, unforgettable.
    • Made-to-order, conjured just for you—no two pairs walk the same world.

  • Trade Routes, Tides & Transit

    A Note from the Laments Regarding Fulfillment: Each relic is conjured upon request, hand-wrought in our faraway atelier with care befitting the Old Ways. Most emerge within 5–10 days; arrival at your threshold may span 2–3 weeks, depending on tides, tempests, or logistics beyond mortal control.

    Some parcels may arrive separately—such is the nature of enchanted logistics.

    Should you harbor questions, omens, or mere curiosities, the Laments are always listening. Reach out at will.