Ladies Footwear

I haven’t quite figured out the footwear of choice amongst female London commuters. Women tend to wear either extremely uncomfortable (but very stylish) high heels….or they wear shoes for walking in. These walking shoes tend to fall into 3 categories:

1) “ballet-style” flat shoes: at least they’re more comfortable than high heels, although they still don’t look very comfortable to me;

2) flip-flops: seen mostly on warm days, although I did see a few idiots wearing them in the dead of winter. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand the logic behind doing a lot of heavy walking in flip flops (even if they ARE very stylish flip-flops!);

3) sneakers (or “trainers” as they are called here): this is more like it and is now my choice of commuter shoes to wear after my first day on the job when I wore my work shoes and my feet ended up covered in blisters. The sneakers may not look very stylish, but at least my feet don’t hurt anymore!