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There was a time where fashion’s elite couldn’t even mouth the words “plastic” and “heel” without visibly convulsing.
While they may have once been the domain of strippers and pole dancers exclusively, clear plastic shoes – boots, heels, sandals, the whole shebang – are now firmly in the fashion lexicon. Whether you like it or abhor it.
As usual, we have Ms Kim Kardashian West to blame thank for the gentrification of a shoe that’s long been shunned from our wardrobes.
Casually walking around New York City and not at all planning on being photographed, Kim capped off a see-through bra/denim jacket/denim shorts combo with some thigh-high, clear, plastic boots.
Image: Getty.
Completely see-through. From the top to the bottom.
A little Glad Wrap chic, no?
Image: Getty.
While they’re not really my cup of tea (even if you sweetened the deal with milk and sugar), you can’t deny the power of the Kardashian juggernaut in setting - no, dictating - what we’re all going to be wearing. (Post continues after gallery.)
Kim Kardashian
Visible sweat, chafing issues and the fact that you'd have to shave your pins aside, there are, in fact, some plastic fantastic options out there that don’t immediately conjure up the descriptor “tacky”.
Allow me to prove it to you with these four options...
Public Desire Alia Clear Strap Block Heeled Sandals from ASOS, $65.
Image: ASOS.
Public Desire Star Clear Peeptoe Heeled Ankle Boots, $87.
Image: ASOS.
Boohoo Bella Metallic Clear Cylinder Two Part Heel, $64.
Image: Boohoo.
Diavolina Codella, $179.95.
Image: Wanted Shoes.
Would you try clear plastic heels?
Top Comments
No thanks
I am all for ridiculous, pain-inducing footwear, but the sweatiness-combined-with-blisters that these boots would induce would be too much for me to handle. Those jelly sandals used to eat my feet alive when i was little, i can only imagine the damage these boots would do!