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 Posted: Mon 17:24, 02 Sep 2013 Post subject: How deck shoes became trendy |
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How deck shoes became trendy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Apparently the world's oldest leather shoe, dating back some 3,000 years and made from a single piece of cowhide, with a leather cord slotted through the seams at the front and the back, was discovered in a cave in Armenia four years ago.
I think I am wearing that shoe. Look closely - actually you don't have to look that closely - and you will see that today's footwear is on the primitive side. Wide,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], roomy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], listing a little bit towards the instep… there's a reason these are called boat shoes.
They're also known as deck shoes. But heck, it amounts to the same thing: and that thing is the good life. Oft have I regarded wearers of deck shoes with a mixture of wonderment and suppressed desire. Wonderment because deck shoe wearers always look unaccountably cheerful and tanned, even when they claim to have been sailing in a gale-force eight all week and are walking with a visible tilt. Suppressed because deck shoes aren't exactly elegant. Or flattering. Or elevating. Or cutting-edge.
What they are is precisely the sort of shoe with which a genuine front row-er (as opposed to dinghy rower) should not have any truck. Which probably means that Christopher Kane is about to do with them what he did to those squishy-soled, wide-strapped sandals that you usually see in operating theatres or morgues (anywhere that regularly gets sluiced down).
Transforming deck shoes into a catwalk statement would be quite a challenge, though, even for Kane,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because deck shoes are quite possibly the most middle-class shoes in the annals of foot coverings. They owe their very existence to the practical requirements of boating, as opposed to caravanning or playing darts. Their middle-classness is non-negotiable.
Tattoos, tiaras and trainers have all gone walkabout up and down the great savannah of the social landscape. Deck shoes have not, I regret to say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ventured very far from base camp.
Or do I regret,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]? On reflection I don't. How deliciously subversive it feels to wear a shoe that is unreconstructedly unfashionable and unashamed of its yachty origins.
Except - stop press, hold the front page - it turns out it isn't unreconstructedly unfashionable. In the interval between shooting this picture about two months ago and now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], something most untoward has happened. The deck shoe has gone and got trendy.
The finger of suspicion alights on Alexa Chung,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because if we look at her penchant for loafers, Mulberry bags and bits of Boden, we see that deck shoes are precisely the kind of so-middle-class-it's-almost-ironic item she would pounce on.
But it's not just Chung. Slowly but surely, Shoreditch is getting its head around deck shoes and wearing them with hot pants,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], vintage dresses and calf-length pleated skirts in a look best described as neo-dowdy. Naturally,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this means it's only a matter of time before Christian Louboutin designs a Swarovski-encrusted version and someone on the high street produces a neon one, and before you know it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we'll all be sick of the sight of them.
So, I say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], let's enjoy them while we can. They are, after all, incredibly comfortable and only list if your feet pronate. You don't even have to wear them with hot pants.
A few style pointers to get you started: roll up trews a little way above the ankle. This is the length not just du jour,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but seemingly du decade. The idea is to flash a glimpse of gorgeous, tanned ankle. And if the ankle is neither gorgeous nor tanned - well, extemporise. Next, upgrade the cardie. This one's a feisty blue with some contrasty bits. Nothing too fashionable, though. We're playing the trad card here,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], although at this rate,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], by mid-July the trad card will be trendier than a Hoxton rave.
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