With heels going the way of cufflinks and hat pins, we’re all flat shoe wearers now
On the whole I try to avoid wading into culture wars, but occasionally it is simply unavoidable. There are some battle lines where the fissures – along philosophical, generational and lifestyle divisions – just cannot be ignored, however painful they may be to touch upon.
I am talking, of course, about whether you wear black or white trainers. Like it or not, this is footwear’s key frontier, the victory of comfort over chic having put to bed the heels-v-flats debate. Plenty of people still wear high heels sometimes – me, for instance – but few of us now identify as full-time heel wearers. I still love the blast of energy that stepping into high heels can bring, like a well-timed key change in a Whitney ballad. But on the whole, heels are going the way of cufflinks and wing collars and hat pins.
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