Pretty-ugly shoes are back, you guys

By Genevieve Rosen
Updated April 30 2014 - 4:14pm, first published April 17 2014 - 9:34am

Remember in the late naughties when digging up old Doc Marten boots was sah subversive? Bringing the shoe back into style was a combination of the usual factors that craft a trend, well, trendy: newness, runway placement, celebrity endorsement, undertones of irony and a touch of nostalgia. Keep this, er, equation in mind (and do exercise an open mind!) when meeting the new footgear set for proliferation this season. And yes, quasi-orthopedic steez is here to stay—but you already knew that.

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