“If we consider fashion a window into our culture, we should wonder what it says that so many stylish women have been clomping around like draft horses in giant ankle-boots that are often adorned with buckles, straps and fringe. Fashion publicist Alison Brod pegs booties with skirts as one of the year’s worst looks. ‘No one, I repeat, no one looks sexy in these things,” she says. “They think they do, but they don’t.”"–We know it’s the Wall Street Journal but still.

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