The Spice Girls: Is that a platform trainer we spy?!
Remember when you thought the Spice Girls were the height of sophisticated fashion, and nothing could ever persuade you otherwise?
Yes, us too, but clearly we were misguided back in our youth and actually thought that skin-tight leopard print, chavvy tracksuits and mini-skirts were the best things since sliced bread.
However, what we really remember from those golden years of pop were the ludicrously high and oh-so popular platform trainers, which thankfully have been forgotten over the past decade.
We're sure that you all experienced the same thrill as us back in the day, tottering around in those clumpy shoes thinking we were the biz, until of course we fell flat on our face.
Platform trainers were one of the most popular fashion trends of the 90s, thanks largely to the Spice Girls and their global girl power influence, which started the whole craze in the first place.
It's tempting to blame Baby Spice Emma Bunton, because if memory serves, she was the first to debut her white platform trainers, alongside her range of cute mini-dresses.
Scary and Ginger then followed suit, with Geri even expanding into platform shoes that looked like they'd come straight from the seventies. Yep, it's safe to say that they started and ended the revolution during their time at the top of the charts.
Although, while Posh refused to wear anything other than high heels during her Spice Girls career, when she first moved to LA she showed off a pair of trainers with a wedge on them. Yes, honestly.
To pitch a ball at the Dodgers game, our Victoria couldn't face the prospect of wearing flat shoes, so took some inspiration from her former band mates and dug out the platform trainers instead.
They didn't exactly go down well, indicating that perhaps we will never be ready for the fashionable return of platform trainers. We can but hope...
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