If a tree falls in the forest...
I'm glad that "fashion" seems so much broader and more open. Including footwear. Then the pandemic really does raise the question, for whom are you dressing? Not so simply as "dress to impress", but loss of the social aspects of dressing--party clothes, dinner clothes, arty clothes, date-night, girls' night out, professional conferences. Whether one would call it attention to "trends" or being modern, or the line between lemming vs. enjoying something together--it is now so much harder to experience and capture, visually, the shifts in dressing styles, options for garments and footwear--whether a trend or perhaps more of "cool new idea I would not have though of myself" that just makes wearing clothes more fun.
We talk a lot--or maybe used to--about styles and fits that work especially well for certain body types, though always with disclaimer that that assumes some inherent bias or "eye-training" for conventional fits and proportions, and the fun of going against type or conventionally flattering styles and fits---but I don't see as much of that for footwear. Meaning. how it complements your feet, legs, other parts of garments. Sometimes we do, in terms of color matching or bookending.
Anyway the point of all this is that I seem to do best when I stick with footwear that i just like how it looks on me and with the particular kind of outfits for which I will wear it, and it fits great. A hard combo but clearly the best direction for me. I do admit that "how it looks" must at some level be influenced by what I am seeing over time, and what is available, but in truth, it doesn't seem like I get anywhere by trying to find what may be trending.
It is more like I get lucky when styles I like happen to like are available, come back in style or for some reason have some longevity or classic features.
