Day 1,644: stiletto, cobble, deride, beaux, quartier, abomination, deform, fall flat

The once familiar click of stiletto on cobble is giving way to the silence of rubber soles. Today fashion writers offer French women advice on “les chunky boots”: heavy, black, grooved-sole footwear. Trainers, once derided in the beaux quartiers as an American abomination, are now a daily feature in Parisian cafés and offices.

A younger generation is turning against the stiletto’s figure-deforming nature—nodded to in the film “Barbie”, whose star’s feet no longer fall flat when relieved of her heels.

Why French women no longer wear high heels

Artwork of the day 
Little Cobbler's Shop
Childe Hassam
Date: 1912
Style: Impressionism
Genre: cityscape

Word of the day 
stiletto: a shoe with a narrow, high heel, usually wornby women:
cobble: a rounded stone used on the surface of an old-fashioned road:
derided: to laugh at someone or something in a way that shows you think they are stupid or of no value:
beaux: plural of beau old-fashioned
quartier: a district or neighborhood especially in a French city
abomination: something that you dislike and disapprove of:
deform: to spoil the usual and true shape of something:
fall flat: If a joke, idea, or suggestion falls flat, it does not have the intended effect:

Quote of the day
“The next morning, my head and every muscle in my body hurt as if I'd run a marathon through six feet of snow in stilettos.”

― Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire