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Spring Trend: Flatforms

March 22, 2011

There are a lot of fun, trendy styles to incorporate into our wardrobes this Spring. High-waisted flare jeans, cropped jackets, full skirts, nude pumps, 70s dresses.

But please, pretty please, stay away from the flatforms. I don’t care who’s rocking them on the runways, they remind me way too much of the Baby Spice and Scary Spice’s platform-esque shoes in the 90s.

Unless Victoria Beckham wore it, it's safe to assume you should not wear today what the Spice Girls wore a decade ago. Even then, tread carefully.

Much like gladiator shoes, I doubt these flatforms are podiatrist recommended. Yes, they add a few inches of height. But since flatforms don’t have the arch needed to elongate your legs the way heels do, in my mind the potential style factor doesn’t exactly make the foot pain worth it.

I’m sticking with flats or heels this summer – none of this in-between flatform nonsense.

But what about you? Are any of you going to splurge on this year’s footwear craze? If so, please send me pictures and prove me wrong 🙂

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Written by Jo-Lynne Shane, a professional lifestyle blogger, brand advocate and community manager. Named one of Nielsen’s 50 Most Influential Women in Social Media, Jo-Lynne is best known for her award-winning lifestyle blog, Musings of a Housewife, where she dishes up an assortment of food, fashion, fitness and family travel. She has been featured on Mothering.com, Southern Living Magazine, CNN.com and in Cosmopolitan Magazine. In the local sphere, Jo-Lynne facilitates the vibrant networking group Philly Social Media Moms, providing community, support and education for 200 area bloggers. Jo-Lynne lives and works from home in the suburbs of Philadelphia with her husband of 17 years, three lively children and one extremely spoiled shih tzu named Savannah.

Comments

  1. Grace {Blackbelt Oma} says:
    March 22, 2011 at 8:29 PM

    “Flatforms” as they are now called were ugly in the 70’s when I wore them, 90’s when the Spice Girls wore them…and they are still ugly. UG!

  2. Caitlin says:
    March 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM

    Oh my goodness….. hahaa

  3. Megan says:
    June 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM

    Darn, I actually have a pair of huge platforms that are blue. They’re almost identical to Baby Spice’s shoes. I bought them in Vienna in 1998. I was hoping to resurrect them this season. But maybe I ought to just leave them in my closet and only pull them out for the occasional Lady Gaga concert.

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