These were delivered on a day when I was wearing new shoes that were tearing up my feet. Here's what happened when I rocked a pair of everyone's favorite '90s sandals for a week in the summer of 2016. But now we're a couple years into the a resurgence of chunky, "ugly" silhouettes, so I decided it was time to try to bring 'em back.Īfter a couple months of periodically checking Etsy and eBay, I finally found a pair of "US Size 7, 90s Steve Madden Platform Sandals, Slip On Wedge Sandals, 90s Minimalist, 90s Chunky Sandals, Army Green, Vintage 90s Sandals." While I was personally always partial to the all-black versions, I figured this olive-green variation would do. In the early 2000s, platform shoes were generally replaced by delicate flats, and we all collectively gave away our beloved slides.
It felt like everyone had a pair, probably because they were generally much more acceptable to parents and dress codes alike than a pair of lace-up, over-the-knee, silver high-heeled boots (another of SM's popular silhouettes). I was only ever allowed the cheap knockoff versions, and even though they looked essentially the same as the real deal, I envied the girls who got to show off the Steve Madden logo every time their flips flopped.
Steve Madden was the cool shoe brand of the era. Among all the fabulous fashion and beauty trends we were blessed with in the '90s, nothing seems to trigger more universally positive nostalgia with millennials than those glorious stretchy Steve Madden sandals.
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