https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:30:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321937 Tue, 09 May 2023 12:23:51 +0000 April 2321937@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Anyone who wants even more gory details of my journey to the shoes shown above can read <a rel="nofollow" href="https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/baby-phat">Olive Green's thread.</a></p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321917 Tue, 09 May 2023 11:05:20 +0000 Katerina 2321917@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, they look amazing. Especially the pair in 1 is striking.</p> <p>Suntiger, ha, ha, ha! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321913 Tue, 09 May 2023 10:50:03 +0000 Anonymous 2321913@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*twists ankles and falls down steps just looking at them* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321911 Tue, 09 May 2023 10:46:33 +0000 lyn67 2321911@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, should have been really cool to wear these when young and beautifull-also free doing it if wanted! We were not allowed to wear anything heeles in high school and also wore uniforms-sobbing:-((. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321896 Tue, 09 May 2023 05:46:54 +0000 Bijou 2321896@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>They are amazing, thanks for finding pictures of these shoes, I had no idea what a window heel was. I do remember being quite envious of my older sisters in the late 70's with their disco and Studio 54 inspired fashions. I was still in kids clothing at the time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321876 Tue, 09 May 2023 01:40:52 +0000 Jaime 2321876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wish I could have ever worn them, but even as a teen I could not ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321833 Mon, 08 May 2023 21:31:30 +0000 cat2 2321833@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Star: Google Dittos Saddleback jeans, vintage pairs will pop up. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321821 Mon, 08 May 2023 18:36:35 +0000 Janet 2321821@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my, I wanted those Candies so bad but they were unwearable for me! Flew right off my skinny feet, LOL. </p> <p>Back when I first joined YLF over 10 years ago, I got a pair of Nine West red platform sandals that had a similar open platform detail — I loved the look of those shoes but I couldn’t handle that heel height anymore, I fear. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321813 Mon, 08 May 2023 18:12:13 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 2321813@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those are cool. I remember the Candie's trend, too. Around that time, or a couple of years before, I had some Bass kiltie loafers with a big rubber platform that I wore every day. And before that, there were the platform heeled saddle shoes in navy on cream that I adored! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321809 Mon, 08 May 2023 17:46:51 +0000 Suz 2321809@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, those are so cool!!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321806 Mon, 08 May 2023 17:12:15 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 2321806@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG I had the wood donut heel platforms. And Candie's, too.</p> <p>I coveted Famolare's but never got a pair. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321804 Mon, 08 May 2023 16:54:14 +0000 kellygirl 2321804@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I never had Candies but probably wished I did at the time.&nbsp; My high heel shoe was a Famolare with the wavy sole.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321796 Mon, 08 May 2023 15:48:08 +0000 Star (Lise) 2321796@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gorgeous!&nbsp; I had a white pair like #1 in 1978 and a black pair like #2 in 1979 - worn with skinny jeans - so modern after all the flares of the 70's.&nbsp; I was 13 yrs ;).&nbsp; I had a black window heel platform without an ankle strap in the late 90's too.<br /><b>Cat2&nbsp;</b>what are jeans with saddlebacks? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321789 Mon, 08 May 2023 15:06:25 +0000 cat2 2321789@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, the wedges were Cherokees! Bought with my first wages from helping wrap gifts at a nearby store. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321785 Mon, 08 May 2023 14:51:29 +0000 LJP 2321785@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh those Candie's bring back memories...... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321776 Mon, 08 May 2023 14:15:47 +0000 Anonymous 2321776@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What memories!</p> <p>I had a pair of Candie's similar to yours. Wood soles/bottoms with a taupe colored satin part across the top of the foot. Spike heels. This would have been around 1981-1983 and at my very first job out of college.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321773 Mon, 08 May 2023 14:10:59 +0000 Angie 2321773@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember them too! Stinking fab! I bet gorgeous on you, <b>April</b>.</p> <p>My late Mama had #2 in white in 1975 :)&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321769 Mon, 08 May 2023 14:05:18 +0000 April 2321769@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aquamarine - no one could walk comfortably in those shoes but we all bought them anyway!&nbsp; My grandmother told me I was going to "ruin my feet" - I wish she had been wrong.</p> <p>My high school was an 8-building campus outside Pittsburgh.&nbsp; Ice, snow, steep hills everywhere, and still we wore our spike heels year round.</p> <p>My favorite days were gym days - I hated gym class but got to wear my flat Nikes and be comfortable.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>c2 - I think I had three pairs of the Candie's spike heels consecutively, never more than one pair at a time.&nbsp; Those were four-inch spikes.&nbsp; One of the cheerleaders had a pair of 5-inch spike heel strapped sandals and all the cheerleaders who wore that size took turns wearing them, and we all noticed.&nbsp; "Oh, Kimmie has The Shoes on today."&nbsp; "Today it was Renee's turn."</p> <p>Helena, we certainly thought so at the time! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321761 Mon, 08 May 2023 13:50:41 +0000 Helena 2321761@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those are amazing! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321758 Mon, 08 May 2023 13:48:36 +0000 cat2 2321758@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha! I had two pairs of Candies, and two pairs of a really high platform wedge with a cream colored sole; I don’t recall what they were. And the jeans with the saddle backs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321747 Mon, 08 May 2023 12:12:53 +0000 Aquamarine 2321747@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember these, and I so wanted them because all the cool kids wore them. But I could never comfortably walk in them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-late-70s-window-heel-platform#post-2321745 Mon, 08 May 2023 11:34:14 +0000 April 2321745@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>They were like picture 1 though not quite as high-heeled and more of a burgundy color.&nbsp; </p> <p>I was 14 and in 9th grade - had a cash job and so could buy my own shoes.&nbsp; A few months later, I bought the exact Candie's spike heels shown in picture 2.&nbsp; My mother had marginally disapproved of the platforms but truly loathed the spike- heel-with-designer-jeans trend. </p>