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Taken from Vogue.co.uk:
WHAT Lisa Armstrong says, she means, and this week she's telling us that flat shoes are very much back. The Times style doyenne advises this morning that we should start flirting with flats during the summer ready for a winter that promises to keep both feet very much on the ground. "Ballet pumps are perfect for days when you don't want to go bare toed and when youre feet are ikilling you because those canvas wedges that felt so comfortable in the shop are in fact ripping your feet to shreds," she says. "Alternatively, Roger Vivier's relaunched Belle de Jour pumps (the buckled principle boy shoes that Catherine Deneuve wore in Luis Bunuel's subversive film) are pretty damn chic."
So, here are the flat rules:
1. Gypsy skirts should never be worn with heels. "It will only end in tears and a David Walliams-in-laydee-drag moment," says Lisa. "Flouncy and full skirts need wedges. So do shorts and miniskirts. Failing wedges, it has to be flats."
2. There was a time when high heels and miniskirts looked fine. But, then, so did visible Wonderbras.
3. Go for Audrey Hepburn-style ballet shoes, Nicole Kidman pointy-toed slippers (Vivier again), wierdie Antwerp art student hoof-shaped ones, or Marc Jacobs' mouse flats (now a fully blown classic).
4. Height isn't everything. Otherwise John Redwood would be on the cover of Vogue more often than Kate Moss.
5. For most women, the only thing that doesn't work with flats is a pencil skirt – and jeans if your legs are short.
6. Renegotiate your notions of sexuality. In the 18th century flat slippers, intimately associated with the boudoir, were considered highly erotic. Deneuve didn't do so badly in the erotic stakes in her patent flats.
Picture:
Marc Jacobs, spring/summer 2005
© Marcio Madeira/VOGUE.COM
WHAT Lisa Armstrong says, she means, and this week she's telling us that flat shoes are very much back. The Times style doyenne advises this morning that we should start flirting with flats during the summer ready for a winter that promises to keep both feet very much on the ground. "Ballet pumps are perfect for days when you don't want to go bare toed and when youre feet are ikilling you because those canvas wedges that felt so comfortable in the shop are in fact ripping your feet to shreds," she says. "Alternatively, Roger Vivier's relaunched Belle de Jour pumps (the buckled principle boy shoes that Catherine Deneuve wore in Luis Bunuel's subversive film) are pretty damn chic."
So, here are the flat rules:
1. Gypsy skirts should never be worn with heels. "It will only end in tears and a David Walliams-in-laydee-drag moment," says Lisa. "Flouncy and full skirts need wedges. So do shorts and miniskirts. Failing wedges, it has to be flats."
2. There was a time when high heels and miniskirts looked fine. But, then, so did visible Wonderbras.
3. Go for Audrey Hepburn-style ballet shoes, Nicole Kidman pointy-toed slippers (Vivier again), wierdie Antwerp art student hoof-shaped ones, or Marc Jacobs' mouse flats (now a fully blown classic).
4. Height isn't everything. Otherwise John Redwood would be on the cover of Vogue more often than Kate Moss.
5. For most women, the only thing that doesn't work with flats is a pencil skirt – and jeans if your legs are short.
6. Renegotiate your notions of sexuality. In the 18th century flat slippers, intimately associated with the boudoir, were considered highly erotic. Deneuve didn't do so badly in the erotic stakes in her patent flats.
Picture:
Marc Jacobs, spring/summer 2005
© Marcio Madeira/VOGUE.COM
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