Over-the-knee boots have been gentrified. They are for fashion, not for pulling
I t’s safe to say that this is an outfit I would not have foreseen myself wearing when I first spied Julia Roberts in thigh-high latex boots with a Lycra body and a tiny skirt on screen in Pretty Woman. Yet here I am, in over-the-knee boots and a demure, flowery dress that, if not exactly a tea dress, is definitely the sort that suggests drinking Earl Grey from a cup and saucer, rather than calling room service for champagne. It is as if the two Vivian Wards – the streetwise, gum-snapping one and the polka-dotted, polo-match-attending one – are dressing for a job share.
Over-the-knee boots, until recently NSFW, have been gentrified. They are for fashion, not for pulling, and you can tell. They look different. The new generation are not the shiny, black kind, wipe-clean on the outside and sweaty on the inside. They are suede, or velvet, or at least soft leather, all high-maintenance fabrics that you would not risk on a street corner, for fear of splashing. Also, they are probably not black. Instead, they are Armani-ish shades of sophisticated, understated grey, petrol blue, mushroom.
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