Two articles in the Melbourne media recently covered the latest penchant for tottering, vertigo-inducing, ankle snapping high heels.
Jan Breen Burns in Saturday’s Age attributes this to the lunacy of youth or its ‘fashenthusiasextremism’. Throughout Melbourne’s shops, examples of these 15cm beauties are on show, including from our own Chinese Laundry.
At the other end of the spectrum are ‘man-heels’, the latest fad and logical evolution from the ‘man-bag’, the ‘murse’ and the slightly creepy ‘mantihose’. Rachel Wells charts the rise of the ‘man heel’ in the Sunday Age, referring to Dior Homme’s offering a couple of seasons ago and Marc Jacobs’ saying he too “can suffer for fashion” after wearing Rick Owens heels. Paul la Rosa of ultra-stylish Croft men’s shoes said “men don’t want to be overshadowed by their stiletto-clad wives or girlfriends”.
Is it this ‘Sarkozy Effect’ instead?
AMPR have a different theory. Rather than the fashion world’s shorter mavens starting this, how about the traditional Aussie bloke? After all, any browse through the range on offer at RM Williams over the last 20 years would reveal not only stacked heels, but Cuban-inspired cut-out versions.
Our lone male staffer says that his Cubans were originally designed as the ‘gentleman’s choice’ for dress shoes. Perfect for the B&S ball perhaps? Marc Jacobs in Broken Hill?
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