I was in London this weekend and saw plenty of women wearing heels.

[JeysusH]

That is all.

Definitely not a phrase I would associate with London.

It's a little tongue in cheek post because whenever a poster asks what they should wear for a night out in London they get a complete pile-on telling them that London is super-casual and only a parochial fool would dress up.

It's not true!

It does depend upon area obviously, but people (and not just out of towners), definitely do dress up, and indeed wear heels, in London. It's very silly to say they don't.

Plus it's a bit sneery. Which is never cool.

I work in London and noticed quite a few women who were over from our US office were wearing heels today. They looked much more comfy in them that I ever did.

So? People can wear heels and also don't have too, why does it matter?

Bridge and tunnel is Manhattan, and even then, IT'S NOT COOL.

It was a sneering comment made by a "real Londoner" referring to tourists in London or commuters from the suburbs.

It's a pejorative term to describe people who live in communities surrounding Manhattan and commute to Manhattan for work or entertainment.

The funny thing was the poster in question thought it was a generic term to describe all such ( in her view unfortunate, unsophisticated ) people in any metropolitan situation rather than specific to New York.

Oh how we laughed.

I'm not sure it matters at all.

Which is kind of the point.

I so get this! Before COVID, my immediate colleagues loved heels. I love heels, but heels don’t love me, so I did my best because I didn’t want to look ‘less.’ Thankfully, post-COVID (and with hybrid working) they all, bar one, ditched the heels. The relief was indescribable. I now work in a department where everyone wears trainers. It’s wonderful!

Not sure I’ll quite go as far as heels, I’m too out of practice, but this post has made me fancy a razzle, dazzle dress-up night in town.

Oh, the joy of falling arse over tit at a policeman’s feet at 2am on Frith Street, an espresso at Bar Italia and catching the night bus barefoot, wondering where your left stiletto got to.

Sadly, all my London friends and family are too cool for school or dress like they wandered in from Norfolk, in search of a lost spaniel, and I’d look desperately mismatched.

I do notice block heels and wedges coming back but most people are still in trainers.

I've always hated heels even when they were in fashion. Couldn't stand them wearing them, so uncomfortable. I think it tends to be middle aged and upwards women who insist on wearing them, I don't see them that often on young women. I still see mostly flats and platforms in London.

I went on two tube trains this evening, both full, and saw only one woman wearing heels. She took the off and put on a pair of ballet flats. I particularly looked because I saw this thread when I was on the first train.

No, no, no I don't believe it. They couldn't have been real Londoners if they were wearing heels.
Unless of course they were older women in which case it doesn't count.

I too always hated them, and I would probably be described as "old" on MN. I don't live in the UK, but rarely see anyone in them around here.

Oh I love a heel for an out-out night! Wouldn't feel comfortable in a flat and definitely not a trainer for a proper drink and dance. But I'm a flats and comfort girl on every other occasion

Nobody HAS to, - just refuse.