In Praise of Camilla’s Wedges March 22, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Miscellany , trackbackA rather nasty little article in the Guardian this morning tries to suggest that because Camilla has been seen wearing wedges, they’ll become immediately passe. Now, I’m an arch-republican and would happily see the entire Royal Family and hangers-on relegated to a council estate somewhere out of Manchester, but I do have a sneaking admiration for Camilla, and wedges are the best high heeled shoe there is.
I remember the day Charles and Camilla got married. I was stuck waiting for someone to pick me up from Inverness airport, and there was little option but to watch the show. She was a picture of classical elegance in an understated but appropriate dress, making it very clear that while Diana may have had glamour, youth and the pomp of a faded empire on her side, Camilla is no mumsy frump.
The wedge has made a deserving comeback of late, and any woman who likes to be able to walk, rather than totter, in high heels should take advantage of this. They may be the only elegant evening shoe which could conceivably have been designed by someone planning to wear it, rather than a sadistic bloke. Yes, they are sensible, in a way that stilletos will never be, but they are hardly frumpy. They epitomise a modern ideal of feminity, elegant while completely in control. Surely this does not worry the Guardian?
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