Fashion

[Silver Lining]

That style has been around for ages, literally ages.

[ECBG]

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@ALRATIBA wrote:

That style was popular in the early 1970s.   

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@ALRATIBA,Interesting.  I was studying design then and never saw that style.  I also took every fashion magazine at that time.  Living in one of the largest cities in the state the next year, I never saw them.

I DO remember when our design professor came in with strappy red patent platform heels!  Although within six months I was wearing them, they were a shock!  She was in her early 30's and I loved seeing what she wore.  She made most of her own clothes and had amazing talent and was very inspireing.

[jaxs mom]

Herman Munster's were more like the brother creeper style that were popular in the 50s and 60s

[Bird mama]

@jaxs mom  I worked with catty women so of course they were going to criticize my new shoes.  I was so thrilled to see any kind of platform/flatform coming back into style I didn't care.

[jaxs mom]

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@Bird mama wrote:

@jaxs mom  I worked with catty women so of course they were going to criticize my new shoes.  I was so thrilled to see any kind of platform/flatform coming back into style I didn't care.

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Good for you, I don't consider Bride of Frankenstein or Herman Munster to be a pejorative reference regardless of the intent of the commenter. I'd just say "thank you". The same way that I don't define feminine as stilettos. 

[itiswhatitis]

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@ECBG wrote:

Flat forms are a new style.  I guess people liked the look of platforms but wanted a flat foot.  At least they offer more support than those thin soled flat sandals.

I think they're over the line of being too heavy.

The first two are Fly London.

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I love this style of shoes.  Whether or not I could wear them is quite a different matter.  They are cute and rather sexy!

[MacDUFF]

@ECBG

I'm kind of surprised, but I really like the bottom two black ones...not that I'm going to run out and buy a pair, but I won't rule it out completely.

[Oznell]

At 5'3'', I'd enjoy the extra inches at times.  I always have to evaluate shoes in terms of my poor, decrepit little feet-- having had two surgeries so far, I need to baby them and wear round toes mostly and lower heels, blah.

Now paying the penalty for dashing around in heels for most of my working life, sigh.

[Kachina624]

I thought these things were called "elevator" shoes and were wore mostly by short men. 

I can just see my size 11 foot in these monstrosities. 

[ECBG]

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@MacDUFF wrote:

@ECBG

I'm kind of surprised, but I really like the bottom two black ones...not that I'm going to run out and buy a pair, but I won't rule it out completely.

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@MacDUFF,Good luck.  I didn't look to see who the vendor was, I google imaged "flatform shoes".  I must have gotten 50 pictures!