Chic French woman or old man sandal? Help.

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I have been looking at these for a while - I think they look "cool French woman"/ a bit Sezane - but do they look like old man on hols?

I'm so undecided, they are quite different from my usual style, which is more feminine and heels - I completely avoided the clumpy DM/sandal thing.

I do like a swedish clog but they can be annoying to walk in.

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I like them and I have some in black. It depends how you style them. I like wearing mine with barrel leg cropped trousers and a white airy cotton blouse. They also look nice with a very simple neutral maxi dress.

Revolting. You wouldn't look out of place at The Green Party Annual Conference.

This is a weird insult...I mean, fine, you care about the environment?

I actually like them but wouldn’t wear myself because I think the rest of the outfit needs to be quite scandi/androgynous/Cos

You need dainty legs to wear the dainty ones. Clumpy ones will look more edgy and cool. Depends if you want a classic look or a cool edgy look.

I think they're awful. What next Startrite t-bar style shoes for adults! There's nothing elegant about them, they remind me of a teacher I used to have.

I look after my feet, give them a pedicure, paint my nails etc so my feet aren't horribly knarly or I put trainers on if they are.

They’re not supposed to be elegant. Elegance isn’t a look I aspire to. My look is Scandi and they fit perfectly with that.

More like British school children c1965.

I'm sure my grandfather had a pair almost identical to the first pair.

I’ve got these from Zara, love the colour, shame they aren’t leather. They look good with shorts co-ords, crop jeans/trousers and dresses.

@Rina66
I have maybe 3 pairs* of that Zara style in leather that I put away years ago thinking they were “old lady” style.
I’ve been wearing Birkenstock Mayari ever since.
So there are benefits to having been round the block a few times…

• from the Portuguese/German brand Ara IIRC

They can chafe like crazy and depending where you wear them you will have very gritty feet. I had a similar pair from Toast and they never got comfy. Now I tend to wear driving shoes (like Tod’s, but cheaper versions).

There's always going to be this debate about certain things. People will wear things because they are deemed to be " in fashion". With regard to feet there have been Uggs, Teva sandals , socks and slides and this type of sandal. All of these with the exception of Uggs ? would have been seen on people and would have been sniggered at. Now they are " French chic " 😉

I don't like them.

Clarks have been making this style of shoe for decades and it was always the favourite of middle aged/elderly women where I lived. I can't get past that.

I tried a very similar pair on in Sainsburys, clearly a lot cheaper but style pretty much identical and they looked horrid on me. I don’t like my feet so maybe that didn’t help. I just felt they cut my legs off and made them look shorter. I’ve seen them on others and they looked lovely. Get them and try them on?

These are just classic sandals not fisherman’s, they look just right as they are? The first pair that is, I haven’t looked at the second. I like the first pair.

newsflash- we already have those?

Absolutely no way!!!

I think the only way those shoes would work is on a tall, very slim woman under 25, wearing short shorts and a tight tank top unfortunately.

That’s exactly the kind of outfit they don’t work with. They look great with barrel leg trousers and a T shirt or to toughen up a dress. They’re the summer footwear equivalent of a leather biker jacket.

Totally agree here - these two are much more fashionable and could really elevate an outfit.

The OP’s are strangely giving sexually repressed vibes to me for some reason…

I agree and my very fashionable, makes her own clothes, has a back catalogue of Vogue, heading to fashion college teenager has complimented me on my pair from Free People, I tend to think she knows what she is talking about! Equally, you think it totally depends on the area you live in, your social group you hang out with, there isn't really one definitive view on fashion and certainly what constitutes good taste!

Nonsense. Sorry, but I'm so bored with these "that would only suit a tall, think, young model" type comment.

I do agree with @FiendsandFairies that a tall very slim young woman would create a totally different vibe .

Yes too much of a heel was the first thing I noticed.