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The dilemma has even more substance: stiletto heel, kitten heel, full flat, wedge... The options are as wide as Pantone, but fortunately the protocol offers us a small guide of recommendations to be able to

and give it a lady kick to the false myths.

In this last sense, the first thing that is necessary is a clarification: the protocol does not prohibit anything in matters of shoes, it was just missing!

What we have in hand are recommendations based on tradition.

Every morning, the reader will open his closet and decide with which shoes he is going to face his day, like his whole life since he dresses himself, yes.

But this time he will do it knowing

The key, the time of day

Like the furtive declarations of love,

So, traditionally:

The morning belongs to Mary Janes, French girls, ballet flats or ballerinas.

Castellanos, moccasins, Oxfords and, why not, sneakers.

But let the reader know that going flat in the morning is not a protocol whim, no.

It is that society ladies dedicated their mornings to activities for which heels could be uncomfortable.

The appointments for lunch and the afternoon are, for their part, the kingdom of the kitten heel

and the half heel by inheritance of those same ladies who, after eating, dedicated themselves to visiting their friends or were in the tea rooms to comment last who said what.

And, after sunset, the shoe world reveals its best weapons because, yes, those ladies went to the opera or the theater.

But, probably, the reader who must select a pair of shoes from her closet faces a day with a quite different agenda.

So, here's the tradition.

There are not a few women who have decided to take a step forward in terms of heels and adapt the tradition to their own needs.

heel forever

We have one of these examples in

She's not a particularly short woman, but she is if we compare her to the six-foot king she usually walks beside her.

If Doña Letizia followed the tradition of etiquette, I would not like to be in the shoes of the photographers who must frame our kings together in an act in the morning.

In this crazy world, harmony (even if only visual, at the image level) is appreciated.

Queen Letizia and her usual stilettos.Gtres

So Her Majesty has no choice but to exercise her role as queen consort by balancing on some 10-centimeter Magrit from very early.

Of course, the pitcher goes so much to the fountain that our queen's visual harmony has earned her a chronic metatarsalgia, a memory of hours and hours on her heels.

Who does not remember the peep toe model that monopolized her closet in the early 2000s?

Well, luckily Doña Letizia is Asturian and is used to orbayu, because criticism rained down on her.

“She is frowned upon showing her toes”, a criticism that she repeats every time Her Majesty wears one of the fabulous sandals from her collection.

Mmmmm, is he frowned upon?

Well, perhaps in the society in which those ladies dedicated themselves to picnicking and going to the theater arm in arm with their husbands.

But hello? We are in 2022 and thanks to examples like that of the Queen of Spain,

we do not have to walk around in a corset and hoop skirt.

height issue

Another example of how tradition adapts according to needs was given to us by the fantastic

when she was French First Lady.

As the protagonist of a love story with Paris in the background, we have a supermodel from the 90s, a Valkyrie with cat's eyes and infinite legs.

And like her partner, Mr. Sarkozy, twenty-third president of the French Republic, co-prince of Andorra and grand master of the Legion of Honor with a height much shorter than her resume: 1.66 meters.

Not even the best painters of Montmartre would have achieved a harmonious official portrait if Carla Bruni decided to strictly observe tradition.

Surely

Carla Bruni, with flat boots, next to Nicolas Sarkozy.Getty

Shoes as a political communication tool

But this goes far beyond Sarkozy's possible ego, we are already talking about what the voter (and the opponent) receives.

Carla Bruni, fashion icon, who has paraded her silhouette through the main catwalks of the world dressing the most important designers, attends a gala event with a dreamy long dress.

At one point, her dress lifts up slightly and the camera catches her feet... Oh surprise!

She's not wearing fancy stilettos.

Stylistic decision?

Allow me the reader to doubt it.

It is a political decision.

Carla steps out of her heels to help make it clear who's in charge at the Elysee.

So, dear reader, you may be looking at your shoes differently.

Will he opt for tradition?

Or will you use them to communicate something to the world?

Be that as it may,

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