InStyle UK February 2013
Buying
several pairs of fabulous priced of shoes is almost undoubtedly, a universally
girly dream. The question is, how many pairs of them are suitable, comfortable
as well as loveable enough to power up our walking steps in daily life?? InStyle UK columnist Victoria Moss at February 2013 issue looks back her shoe
stack and eyes up the brogues and flats.
Without
S/S 2013 designers’ choices, I doubt if Moss would finally realise that the
power of flats does not only ‘fashion up any ensemble’, or just make her ‘bus
commute a while lot sexier’ (Moss, 2013, p.41). Among approximately 1110-word
article, there is ZERO adjective putting ‘healthy’ or ‘comfort’ as target
discussion toward her ballerina flats. Between the lines, of course, Moss
mentions that flats so freeing, still, she appreciates those heels for ‘standing
up to tall boys, stomping through a sample sale queue, strutting into the Dean
Street Townhouse’ (p. 41); perhaps more an inferiority complex of not being alluring symbol of chastity and male ownership, therefore, her ‘liberation
propaganda’ is just yet another flashy fashion fat lie.
On
visual instinct, bloody high heels indeed lengthen the percent of legs, perhaps
lighten up the evening gowns for hours, but for our confidences, which cannot
be given by any others, I truly wonder if a wobbling shambles with squeezing bleeding
toes would perform any gracefully confident attitude.
I
once tried on the 2 inches stiletto sandals to go on a hot pot party with my
colleagues, and it turned out that within 4 hours, my both insteps were in
peeling and soles in unknown pains. Thereafter, flip flops, loafers, Oxfords and
Dr. Martens are my regulars, and I always would like to collect a pair of black
Repetto. For friends’ weddings or official ceremonies, there are always pleasing
wedge soles to choose from, and a pair of foldable flat is carried in my bag. Going
shopping or strolling around is a not a self-torture; wearing high-heel pumps to
be smug or slim, is not a feminine power, quite on the contrary, an alternative
way of foot binding; which is, a post-modern forced violence in order to gain
gazers’ attentions. Paying a great fortune to limit the mobility and to summon skin
infections, Hallux Valgus or hip joints problems is surely a foolish suicide.
Embracing
the low-key flats or low-heel mules/boots/trainers (less than 2.5 inches/6.4
cm)daily, not due to the trend of Hollywood celebrities or fashion magazines, but
for our feet and mind freedom, because flat is not frail.
Works Cited:
Moss, Victoria. “The Power Flat”. InStyle
UK, Vol.144, February 2013. London: IPC Media, 2013.
Photography: InStyle UK
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