https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:27:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608887 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:51:54 +0000 sienna 1608887@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like them! They look very mod and super comfortable!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608881 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:26:12 +0000 Mary Beth (formerly LBD) 1608881@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My great-grandmother, and my sixth-grade teacher both wore shoes with this type of heel, but without the Mary Jane straps. &nbsp; I think they were Ferragamos or at least, Ferragamo knock-offs. &nbsp; Sometimes I loved them, and sometimes I rolled my eyes at them (the shoes, and the women &nbsp;), but I was always intrigued by the style. &nbsp; I've had a sugar-eye for this style most of my life. &nbsp;I think because, when they wore them, they always seemed so lady-like and dressed up.</p> <p>The Mary Jane style looks like dance shoes, to my eye. &nbsp; I have a pair of Bloch tap shoes that are very similar in style, and I love them.</p> <p>So yes. &nbsp; I think of them as "Gram shoes" (ballerinas with a block heel) or "dance shoes" (Mary Janes with a block heel). &nbsp; And I wear my Vara knockoffs with great pleasure &nbsp; But I wear mine with jeans and a leather moto or sporty luxe zip-jacket. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608649 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 22:01:09 +0000 Anonymous 1608649@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha - RoseandJoan - I am almost that 20 year older version you are talking about, and trust me the eye changes &nbsp;and what is ironic and hip at 38 , isn't so much that in one''s mid 50's. &nbsp;Reread April's comment and notice she said it gets harder to make the look "New' and trendy vs something you never got around to getting rid of 20 years ago. &nbsp; &nbsp;;)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608579 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:11:55 +0000 April 1608579@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aw, thanks R and J. &nbsp;But I assure you (and my highly critical teenaged son assures you) that I have reached the age where the grandma potential of clothing is a serious style threat. &nbsp;</p> <p>We went to a wedding last fall and I wore <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.colehaan.com/kelsey-waterproof-block-heel-%2840mm%29-black-black-patent/D43660.html?dwvar_D43660_color=Black-black%20Patent&amp;dwvar_D43660_width=B#cgid=womens_shoes_pumps&amp;start=2">these shoes</a>&nbsp;because I can't wear serious heels or pointy toes anymore for a number of (grandma) reasons. &nbsp;I could not shake the feeling that they were super dowdy. &nbsp;</p> <p>Their block heel and retro style may be all the rage within a few months, but at the start of this trend, on me, TO me, they read "grandma."</p> <p>And after the wedding, they went straight to the consignment pile. &nbsp;</p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608561 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:24:00 +0000 RoseandJoan 1608561@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh April, I could not imagine grandma heels reading at all grandma on you, or Lisa or Joy. </p> <p>I totally understand your point of view but at 38 a small voice is screaming inside of me, I hope when I am old enough to be a grandma that I have the confidence to be able to break some conventions. I feel that if am dressed appropriately in terms of the season and level of formality and a new take on old trend brings Joy then why should I second guess this?</p> <p>I wish I could fast forward twenty years to see if I feel the same or if I would look back at my youthful optimism with a knowing smile.</p> <p>Regardles, my answer to granny shoes yay or nay is a resounding happy feet tapping yay. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608536 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:25:26 +0000 Aziraphale 1608536@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those are totally grandma heels (thick, sensible, sturdy!), but I still love them. Perhaps the trick is to wear them with an outfit that doesn't say "grandma" in other ways. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608461 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:20:10 +0000 Anonymous 1608461@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree with April. &nbsp;Or - the colour and fabric/type of leather has to be so far away from Grandma to remove all doubt. Like the peach coloured velvet number you posted above:)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608440 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:20:56 +0000 April 1608440@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm going to refer to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://http://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/are-these-dated">what I said on Joy's thread</a>&nbsp;and say that it's far easier to look fashionable wearing a trend like "Grandma heels" if one is many, many years or decades away from actually being a grandma.</p> <p>The closer you are to "Grandma age," the harder you will have to work to make a trend like this look convincingly stylish <i>when it's new. &nbsp;<br /></i><br />Once you reach a certain age (and I'm speaking as someone who is in the grandma age bracket) until any "grandma trend" becomes mainstream fashion, unless you're known as a style icon, you will be perceived as, well, a grandma. &nbsp;</p> <p>If you're Anna Wintour, people will perceive whatever you do as fashionable, including grandma heels. &nbsp;If you're the average woman of Anna Wintour's age -- grandma.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608398 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:56:16 +0000 AndiB 1608398@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've been seeing these all over the fashion sites. &nbsp;I rather like them. &nbsp;but I do like me a good trend, in shoes in everythingl. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608363 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 06:43:56 +0000 Gigi 1608363@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those look like fun! I'm a terrible sucker when it comes to shoes...always have to have something different. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608135 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:16:20 +0000 Anonymous 1608135@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was just thinking about posting a pair of pumps with a similar heel. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608132 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:01:33 +0000 Anonymous 1608132@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's stupid. They don't look like Grandma heels to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608131 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:57:02 +0000 Ginger 1608131@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Grandma heels?? That block heel is straight out of the 1960s. Epitome of Mod. Too funny! But how fun to be ahead of the trend! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-type-heels#post-1608130 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:51:29 +0000 always trying 1608130@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The WhoWhatWear are calling these type heels grandma heels and are supposed to be trending this spring.&nbsp; Not the mary jane style-just the heel style, shown on several pairs.&nbsp; I have a pair of pumps with this type of heel (mine are black with gold plated heels) that I have been wearing for about three years-boy am I ahead of the trend!</p> <p>w</p>