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Flat footed shoes2/21/2024 ![]() Podiatrist Saoirse Waldron, of Spectrum Foot Clinics, agrees. A low, broad-based heel with support can be ten times better.” “People think that they are doing the right thing by wearing flats, if they are standing all day, but they don’t realise how much damage they can cause. “High heels have a bad reputation,” says Dr Nichola Dunne, director of the Douglas Orthotics Clinic in Cork. However, according to podiatry experts, women may, in fact, be better off in heels. There is too much running around to survive in heels, otherwise.” ![]() “In my industry, stylists and models live day-to-day in flats, for comfort, and the heels go on for events and jobs. Smith is no stranger to flat shoes herself. “Celine, Chloé, Simone Rocha - almost every designer is doing their version of the flat.” “Whether it was brogues, pumps, sneakers or a new, chunky 1980s jelly shoe, one of the things that really stood out at the autumn/winter shows was the amount of flat shoes,” Smith says. Stylist Courtney Smith, who is a regular on TV’s Xposé, says that moment is set to continue into next season, too. It’s just as well that I did, because flats are the must-wear shoes this summer.Īlready made popular by the likes of fashion favourites Alexa Chung, Fearne Cotton and Olivia Palermo, flat shoes dominated the catwalks at the SS14 shows.Įven Victoria Beckham, usually known for her six-inch heels, was photographed in buckled brogues at the start of the summer, which prompted Marie Claire to describe flats as “having a moment’. I went to see a podiatrist that week and was fitted for orthotic lifts that allow me to walk in flat shoes pain-free. ![]() As the crowd went wild jumping up and down to the closing song, I was sitting on the ground with an agonising cramp in one foot. The final straw came when I went to see pop band The Killers in the Phoenix Park last July. When the spasms stopped, I’d need to spend a half an hour walking around in heels to stop them coming back - not what you want to be doing at 4am, three nights a week. ![]() ![]() I’d wake up in the middle of the night feeling as though I was being electrocuted, my toes rigid and pain shooting through my calves. ![]()
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