As fashionisto Will Baude has already pointed out, pointed is, well, out.
The Business section of the Times urges women to "Forget ballet flats or sneakers or the old-fashioned British walking shoes."
While I have no idea what "old-fashioned British walking shoes" would look like (I'm guessing awful), I'm a fan of ballet flats and some sneakers, such as the silver Puma Mostro, which as those who know me well already know, I spent about a year trying to track down. But forget all this! If I want to be so very now (but, given that it's 2 a.m. and I'm blogging, that can't so easily be assumed), I should abandon comfort, abandon the one very cool pair of pointed, high-heeled shoes I can actually walk in, and go for some sort of retro-looking contraptions that look only slightly less painful than the stilettos featured on "Sex and the City."
"It's a round world," said Paul Wilmot, a public relations agent who represents Calvin Klein, Oscar de la Renta and other designers. "It's clearly a throwback, a retro feel." Mr. Wilmot said he regretted the demise of "the fabulous, low-vamped shoes, as pointed as a steeple top - they make women's legs look great." He called the new silhouette ungainly: "These things are clunkers; they're high-fashion, but they're clunkers."
This trend will be out in no time--these shoes are essentially the high-heeled version of Uggs.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
"Old fashioned British walking shoes." Not.
Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy at Wednesday, August 25, 2004
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