Clarks WTAF?

[Bananararity]

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

It's hard to break it down, I think. I know what you mean about the commerce-adjacent, I see that type a lot when I'm in Mayfair or Chelsea, sometimes Marylebone. I was a a work event last week, a variety of ages, city-adjacent, and it was like a kitten heel showroom, python prints in excess (quite like some of them), plenty of block heeled mary janes (an abomination, imo), some heeled loafers (yuk) and a variety of point-toed flats.

I've also, over the past few weeks, been to dinner near Broadway Market twice and dinner in Clapton once, to an art opening at a friend's studio in Bethnal Green, a cocktail bar in Dalston and a gig in Hackney, so have seen a variety of footwear in the cooler haunts. Lots of trainers, but also lots of Chloe-type platforms (lots of them) and a big variety of heeled and wedged mules - particularly ones with the sides of the wedge sort of scooped out, like these

https://www.mytheresa.com/gb/en/women/dries-van-noten-snake-effect-leather-
mules-beige-p01014762?rrec=true

https://lemondeberyl.com/products/micro-wedge-mule-black-naplack-leather?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=0dea0b31e&pr_rec_pid=8199588053169&pr_ref_pid=8199587627185&pr_seq=uniform

And my sister and my DD, both of whom tend to be up on trends are wanting heeled thong sandals for summer - they look like torture devices to me🤗

@Blossomtoes Alas, I think the creatives and the achingly hip have been banished further afield to make way for the tourists, bankers and hen parties. I went through Shoreditch and Hoxton last night (in a taxi) and the streets were thronged with heels heels heels and inflatable penii.

They look like a Fashion Task from The Apprentice

can I squeeze in too?

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sorry mumsnet

I think they’re stunning. Sorry OP but YANBU - they’re still selling their more traditional shoes at the usual prices, you’re not being denied anything!

That's what ethically made shoes cost. Fine if you can't afford it, but don't glorify that.

Where does it say anything about them being ethically made, whatever that means? Certainly at the time I posted (more than a week ago!) there had been no discussion about how they were made.

Anyway it's not a question of being able to afford that much for shoes. I could if I placed that much value on shoes, which generally I don't. I can just about see me spending that much on a pair of hiking boots, but hard to imagine anything else being worth that much.

But fair point, if shoes are your thing and you get pleasure from collecting unusual ones then it may be worth it to you. I don't find them all that interesting and I must have conventional tastes as these shoes look ugly and badly made to my untutored eyes.

£250!!!!

So interesting @CertainUncertain (and I very much enjoyed hearing about your much more glamorous life. I socialise in those areas too but my milieu is more openings = free wine ).

I tend to think of those low kitten heels or the cut-out-bits ones as flat-ish rather than properly heely and the same goes for heeled loafers (which I secretly like and had in the 90s in fact. I wore them with slim ankle skimmers and a Helmut Lang crombie...)

I haven't noticed anyone other than Shoreditch hen-night stumblers in proper heels for ages but I will keep my eyes peeled.

I hope it's a permanent change. I do get costume dressing - putting on an alter ego kind of thing - but women being pressurised to wear as a matter of course body-deforming footwear in which they can't run feels barbaric to me, and on an exact par with more obviously oppressive forms of mandated women's dress globally.

The shoes aren't the only thing that's 'distressed', I'm distressed just looking at them.

You are really out of touch and this is what you need to be wearing. You may have personal preferences, but you should try and suppress these.

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