My 11-year-old son told me, “That skirt looks really weird with those shoes”’
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I thought this was going to be fun. I thought I was going to be bouncing around with a smile on my face and a puppyish spring in my step. Running up escalators, swinging around lampposts, that sort of thing.
High heels are the enemy, in the popular narrative: they ruin your posture, make you miss your bus, generally shore up the patriarchy. Besides, how hard can it be to give them up now, when flat shoes are having such a fashion moment? Trainers with ballgowns at Chanel, sandals with organza skirts at Burberry, leather slippers with wide trousers at Celine: flats outnumbered heels on the catwalks in 2014. If Cara Delevingne can wear trainers and chunky flat boots on the red carpet, it would surely be a breeze for me to spend a week without heels.
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