I’ve been exploring and cataloguing fat flat shoe style as part of my ‘Fat Flat Shoe Style’ blog series here on my blog, in a Pinterest Board of fat bodies with flat shoes (separated into different styles of shoes), and I’ve been sharing more outfit pics on Instagram using the hashtag #FatFlatShoe
Today we get to these strappy little mary jane-ish shoes from Ziera which I nabbed 2nd hand from Facebook Marketplace.
Would we call these mary janes? I’m not sure what other category they’d fall under, and I’ve started a board on Pinterest for them, so you’ll have to tell me quickly if you disagree with my categorisation.
They’re a brown leather with a little stacked heel (is that the phrase) and they tie with a matching lace over the fit. The relatively open top style and the interchangeable orthotics make it easy to customise the fit so I get more foot space in the shoe (often an issue when I try to buy shoes).
They were the shoe I reached for when I was rediscovering my love of my early Willandra Pants recently- the plum and the brown is a lovely combo, but the extra fanciness of the Willandra and this slightly delicate shoe? A happy combo.
These wool Glebe Pants are a dusty pink shade that I love- they go really well with both this gingham Torrens and the cute brown shoes, but I feel like the fabric hangs and bunches in a way that makes them look bad. They are a great match for my ridiculous glasses though.
What I imagine for these shoes is that they’d go well with dresses and more delicate outfits- the kind of outfits where you think ‘either this needs a heel or needs to be entirely subverted with converse’. Of course, I haven’t photographed that for you, so you’ll just have to imagine it!
Broad in the seams 