Am I the only person in the world who doesn't wear those strappy ankle boots/gladiator type sandal/shoes?!

[MrsSeanBean]

I've tried a few pairs on but they all look hideous on me. Is there a special technique to getting the look right - or are they a bit naff anyway and should I just give up and go back to my favourite kitten heels and 'mary-janes'?

[rather 'a few seasons ago' emoticon]

I can't bring myself to wear them. In fact I hate sandals in general, and gladiators are just excessively sandally to me.
Go back to your kitten heels and mary-janes.
Solidarity.

I'm just glad that flat sandals are fashionable as I can't wear heels. If I could wear kitten heels I would.

I hate them these

Totally naff sandals bit like those 80's baggie bottom trouser thingies that make you look like you pooped your pants/wear incontinence pads.

They are one of those fashion dilemas as they flatter no one. They chop your leg off at the ankle and so make even the leanest and longest legs look well...stumpy.

The only way to get over this is by forgetting how they look on, just buy a fab pair that everyone you meet will covet thus failing to notice that your ankles now look chunkier than if you had just stuck to your haviannas!

they are hideous
I'm with you

Horrid horrid horrid. Avoid like the plague.

I have some really, really lovely ones from Fratelli Rossetti. Super glam and chic, very very very sexy!

I have a gorgeous pair of 4.5 inch heeled gladiator shoes, black leather.

They're my favourite shoes and look equally good with a skirt or with cropped skinny jeans.

i couldn't wear flat gladiator sandals though, they wouldn't suit me at all.

Tulips - 4.5 inch heels?!?! Eek! I couldn't walk in them!

I have short, not terrible thin legs and there's no way I'd wear glads in any shape or form!

I can walk more easily in heels that flats oddly enough Something to do with my flat feet, i feel more 'balanced' in heels.

No - hate them, hate them, hate them. Flat or high heeled, they are hideous things that should be consigned forever to the bad fashion bin.

I have stumpy legs and fat ankles. They would look beyond hideous on me. Which is a shame as I'm actually starting to like gladiator sandles.

i don't like most of them..haven't bought any footwear this year so i can't claim to have actively boycotted them..but particularly the flat ones look obscenely uncomfortable..

I don't like them.

I hate them too, and all those straps eurgghhh imagine the BLISTERS!

and the tall galdiator strappy sandals..just shorten the leg by coming half way up them...i think it is a rare woman who wil look realy good in them.

They make my legs look awful, really short and stumpy!

Mrs Sb I love em but they wont look right just bunged on with any old outfit.

I like flat ones, have just bought these but can't see the point in the glad/boot affair

and those NEXT ones linked to are gorgeous!

but I dont like the peep toe boot,or those weird toe post ankle wrapped flat things

I think they look lovely on other people. But at 5 foot 2, I accept that I am too short in the leg to wear them. Well - could wear them, but they would make me look even shorter than I am!

I think they're nasty and won't have anything to do with them. But then, my shoes are all Crocs. Not the original shape Crocs, mind you, mine are classy Crocs! So comfy!!!!