W hat season is it on your feet right now? Some people are still in summer Birkenstocks (although increasingly with socks), while others are already in winter boots. Some feet have been encased in calf-height cowboys since Taylor Swift was in town, and you get the impression there are those who don’t even take their Crocs off to sleep. Welcome to changeover week, the point at which whatever pseudo summer shoe you’ve been limping along in must be put away for something sturdier.
If your toes are freezing in your ballerinas but boots feel too much too soon, allow me to introduce you to what some of us are calling “heavy flats”, and which you might already know as “real shoes”. Real shoes! Not some paper-soled.