Clarks WTAF?

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90% of my work shores are from Clarks and have been for years. I get this is a collaboration but honestly? Or am I really out of touch and this is what I need to be wearing.

Absolutely love the shade of blue though.

www.clarks.com/en-gb/Martine-Rose-Heel-Womens/26183327-p

Clarks trying to be 'edgy'... 😂

Its probably cheaper to not 'finish' them properly and then try and make it a trend. Same thing going on with clothes. Ugly.

That's where Vivienne Westwood got the idea from.

I've just watched the news and every female newsreader/presenter was in heels. Lots of people wear them

Very expensive and not keen

They're not Clarks shoes, the are Martine rose,a completely different brand.The online Clarkes store is selling them .Lots of retailers sell other brands on their websites.

Have the local rats had a chew !

Come on. The idea that high fashion is conceptual and/or challenges norms is surely not a new one? And collabs between heritage brands and high fashion, equally established ? You might not like it - don’t buy it - but im surprised how many of you are unembarrassed to sound so —very Hyacinth Bouquet— parochial on this.

Yeah. The daft shit belongs on the catwalk.
The high street is for normal stuff.

when my dog was a puppy she’d occasionally leave shoes looking like this. We called her our cuddly land shark.

Indeed. Mackintosh has done collaborations with Burberry, Comme Des Garçons, Gucci, Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Cecilie Bahnsen.
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You mean that disdain for concept footwear is a class marker for practical people who spend too much time on their feet to risk prioritising style over function?

Yeah, probably true. Private podiatry costs a fair whack and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

No that's precisely not what I'm talking about - as I said, 'don't like it, don't buy it.' It's the outrage that this shoe exists at all that I think is very parochial, as if the designer has personally insulted the poster.

There is room for edgy/high-fashion/conceptual and there is room for mainstream. To care enough to publicly mock or be outraged by either is odd.
My own style has historically tended towards the former (not now, cba); I find most middle-of-the-road fashion aesthetically and sometimes ideologically displeasing, and often wince internally. I wouldn't do so out loud because I know it would make me sound like a cunt without convincing anyone to care more about design principles.

Also, bit weird to quote me from another thread on an entirely different issue but ... flattered, I guess?

Having said that, I have just put UPVC windows designed by people without eyes as my number one on the 'I would never buy a house with...' thread 😂

Some of us don’t want “normal stuff” - whatever that is.

How have I quoted you from another thread? You posted on this one, three posts before my reply to you?

It's the shoes, isn't it? You've bought a pair, and the heels are so high that you're at too high an altitude to remember where you've posted. Does MN have a mountain smiley?

I would argue that they are actually dangerous with the extra length of sole at the front (E.g. when ascending stairs) - based on my experience of one pair of extra-pointy cowboy boots and a nasty fall…

Fair enough, I used the expression 'class marker' yesterday on a thread and assumed I'd annoyed you.

And arf, no - even though I do like a bit of deconstruction, all heels make me think of little piggy trotters and/or how women are literally hobbled by the patriarchy 😁

Ah, now I get what you meant. No, I didn't see the other thread. This was an instance of entirely coincidental vocabulary overlap!

Agreed about the hobbling. And to add insult to injury, women have to pay to be hobbled, but that's another rant.

I see this trotted out on mumsnet constantly and it's just... really not true.

Depends. Where I live it’s very rare to see anyone in heels and I never see anyone wearing them in London either.

I agree it's become a bit of a ... class marker <runs>

I live in London and I see them all the time. Maybe not point toe stilettos for the most part, although I've seen some lately, but block heels, platforms, I'm seeing loads. And have a look at mytheresa and net-a-porter, they're styling lots of outfits with heels again.

And you can argue that they're not the peak of street style, but I highly doubt the average mumsnetter announcing they're out is really out ahead of them on trends.

Yes, this is fair enough - I think the majority of UK heel wearers are definitely not haute fashion or haute bourgeoisie, but there is a level of luxe fashion which has never let heels go (and which to me feels more commerce/Kardashian adjacent than art form).

In London I primarily see wealthy heels on minimalist beige-and-butterscotch wide-trouser lunching types with excellent highlights, gentle tans and very understated work (still have laugh lines). Alternatively, on gallerinas (and their Zara wannabes) - these are more high-fashion, but it's a particular moneyed West London Euro look, rather than CSM students or the man-repelling fashionista subset?

I find all this coding so interesting. Your view might be different and I'm interested to hear it.

Depends where they hang out - Hoxton, Spitalfields, etc - achingly fashionable and barely a heel to be seen.

Unfortunately selling two pairs of shoes per customer every 30 years doesn't keep a business going anymore. An explosion in the volume of accessible vendors (globalism/online shopping) means a smaller share of customers, so retailers have to stock low quality fast fashion to keep repeat custom up.