Do you remember wearing shoes like this at school?

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These shoes were so popular in the 90s and early 00s, I can remember whole market stalls being was full of them! Some of the heels were absolutely enormous, like 6 inches plus 🤣 My best friend had the biggest ones available, how she didn’t break her neck I don’t know!

I wore similar for my graduation in the late 90s!

I loved Metz!! And mud slide- the worst combination on a night out! Vodka and chocolate cream 🤮 the thought of peach Bacardi breezer still makes me nauseous to this day!!

My heels weren’t as tall but yes as blocky. I had always worn very non standoutish shoes so when I wore these I felt so cool (I was NOT a cool teenager 😅)

Yep! I loved them! I harrassed my mum into getting me some from Dolcis and they were way too heavy for my skinny 12 year old legs. I ended up with scuff marks and cuts on my ankles where I kept clipping them!

Didn't stop me wearing them or getting more, though 😂

Oh, yes! I remember these. Mine weren't quite as high as that first photo but were the chunky heeled kickers ones. Also had a spare pair of Pod shoes that were slightly higher in years 10/11. They were the only heels I could actually walk in because they were so chunky! But I was near 6 ft tall when wearing them, lol.

Yes and I was always so upset I wasn't allowed these by my mum

I'd forgotten about Metz, now I'm having a weird flash of the creepy advert.

I've recently bought a pair of shoes not dissimilar to the Pods I used to wear for school (before they got banned).

I think I had these exact shoes, I’d wear them to school, what a throwback! Hideous!

I had a coat of the same brand which was black with a white fluffy hood and pom poms. This was a strong early 2000s look 😂

If you lived in London, the really cool kids had the ones from Shelly’s Shoes on the King’s Road or Carnaby Street, as promoted in every fashion shoot in Just 17 and Mizz. Oh the Saturdays I spent window shopping there, and eventually being able to buy some clumpy horrors when I went to work! Just the carrier bag can be yours for only £25 now!

I wasn’t allowed a proper heel but was jealous of girls who were!

I loved Shelley's! I lived on the outskirts of London and I'd always beg to go there on a shopping trip with my mum - we'd visit the Covent Garden one.

I work close by now and often feel all warm and tingly if I pass the building. I have such vivid memories of those curved, shiny steps and the excitement I felt! 😂

SunQueen24 · Today 10:53

I wasn’t allowed a proper heel but was jealous of girls who were!

At my primary, Joanna (you know who you are) used to allow us to walk once around the playground in her turquoise, sling back heels with a pink flower for 2p per circuit.
The first shoes I bought myself out of wages were turquoise, suede sling backs 😁

MrsSkylerWhite · Today 12:05

SunQueen24 · Today 10:53
I wasn’t allowed a proper heel but was jealous of girls who were!

At my primary, Joanna (you know who you are) used to allow us to walk once around the playground in her turquoise, sling back heels with a pink flower for 2p per circuit.
The first shoes I bought myself out of wages were turquoise, suede sling backs 😁

The nuns would have given us worse than hell. We had regulation shoes, indoor and outdoor. Anything deviating from regulation wasn't tolerated.

Me too but mine were Kickers. I loved them. So comfy.

I had similar to this in 2003/2004 🤣

In the 70s I was allowed to have a pair on the condition that I did NOT wear them for school. My mum would leave for her school (deputy head) before me and when she left I would be wearing my (box fresh) Clarkes lace ups. But as soon as she left I'd swap them and go to school in my platforms.

After a while I realised she would notice that the Clarkes had never been worn, so first boiled the kettle to steam out the gold lettering from the inside, then I tied them to the back of my bike with string and dragged them around behind me to scuff them up good and properly (I'd tried rubbing them against a brick wall but it just was not scuffing enough).

The lengths I would go to to keep my mother in the dark about what I was really up to. I was terrified of her. All my friends had them and their mothers did not mind, but mine, she was ferocious. My whole childhood was spent lying to my mother.

I loved those shoes and had nightmares that owning a pair was just a dream. I'd wake up with a start and see them (and the awful brown Clarkes that made my narrow feet look like flippers) on the floor by my bed and heave a sigh of relief.

I now greatly enjoy buying cosy toes slippers for my mum who has dementia and has no choice but to wear the ugly things. (Nb she has no choice because her legs and feet are so swollen, so I'm actually looking after her by buying them).

Yes our school had a policy on the heel height and the teachers would measure them with a ruler 😂

Yep. Had Pod ones (could never afford Kickers), and some Kangaroo ones, too, that I especially loved.

And the canvas ones for weekends! I'd still kill for a pair of those now. Best shoes ever.

Yep. Kickers. Graduated
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