Who was looking for chunky heeled Mary Janes?

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Was it SummerBride?  It turns out you're not a fashion throwback to the 80's, you're right in style.  This article was on AOL:

There's a ladylike upheaval in autumn's designer collections and fashion magazines: the rise of the lower heel. After dominating several seasons, towering platform shoes are finally yielding to mid-heels.

All sorts of buyers are boosting the trend, climbing down off their stilettos and trading them in for anything under four inches.

With kitten heels, d'Orsay pumps, and low-heeled boots popping up in the glossies, on runways, and (at last!) on store shelves, mid is having a moment.

Marc Jacobs was a front-runner, sending out bow-topped low pumps in Louis Vuitton's fall show and chunky-heeled Mary Janes for his namesake collection.


A handful of other influential designers got low too. Stella McCartney sharpened her looks with pointy, shiny, asymmetrical slingbacks. Loeffler Randall's over-the-knee boot styles start with a slim wedge of just over an inch and top out with a cone-shaped three-inch heel.

Even designers known for nosebleed heels are taking things down a notch: witness Christian Louboutin's ballerina-style kitten pump. In short, you can now find lower heels on virtually any shoe or boot style -- with varying levels of irony.

Salvatore Ferragamo's new line, meanwhile, invests heavily in the mid-heel. My Ferragamo includes kitten heels, block heels, and a double heel inspired by the iconic ridged wedge.

Buyers for major department stores have been snapping up the lower heels and report that customers are scooping them up in return.

Lincoln Moore, the accessories fashion office director at Saks Fifth Avenue, told StyleList that customer demand and product options are happily in sync. As their shoppers began asking for more mid-heels, Saks found more styles to offer. The company has been emphasizing the trend when training their sales staff.

"Already, we have been hearing from our stores that [customers] are excited by the mid-heel selections offered in boots and in career pumps," Moore said. "We expect this trend to resonate in major urban markets throughout the country."

MelandJeff

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that was me! I knew I had my finger on the pulse of all things fashionable!

;-)  Thanks for letting me know that I'm not completely out of fashion!