What Do You Think Of Flatforms? (Not platforms). - Page 5

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

The ones from the '70's were platforms and had a shape - not a flat foot platform. I don't like them as they do nothing to make the foot and leg look good. I don't need something to make my already flat feet look worse. I can't imagine they would be comfortable walking flatfooted on a high block.

Katcat1 · ‎07-21-2011

If they have arch support I would say OKAY. If not, no way, they would feel like I am wearing Uggs and that flat shoe is uncomfortable. Remember the big rage about Uggs?

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Bird mama · ‎03-12-2010

@itiswhatitis Girl, you are just itty bitty :-) I'm 5'10 and I go taller at every chance I get. Love my heels and platforms, even when they put me at a dangerous altitude, rofl.

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

Bird mama · ‎03-12-2010

@SisterGoldenHair You were so ahead of your time. When they started integrating skates into ahtletic looking shoes, I didn't know this had been done before in the early 70's.

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@Pook wrote:
The ones from the '70's were platforms and had a shape - not a flat foot platform. I don't like them as they do nothing to make the foot and leg look good. I don't need something to make my already flat feet look worse. I can't imagine they would be comfortable walking flatfooted on a high block.

@Pook,I remember what you describe.

apple1964 · ‎08-07-2013

They remind me of dutch shoes... ugly

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

@ECBG wrote:
@ALRATIBA wrote:
That style was popular in the early 1970s.
@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.

@ECBG

They were popular around NYC (at least in Brooklyn and Queens) in the 1970s.

Google "1970s platform shoes" .... I personally knew people who wore them then.