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• “Givenchy's "Bela" sandals (£780) in black could almost be children's leather school sandals, save for the enormous wedge they have been created on top of (eight inches is my tape-measure-free guesstimate), whilst Céline's huge, clompy "Oliver" wedge (£555) would take some serious confidence (or a good tan and super-skinny legs) to carry off.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Higher the Heel, the Harder the Fall

• “Get in touch with your masculine side At Balenciaga, Nicolas Ghesquière put short-haired models in punky colour combinations, boyish shapes and clompy Teddy Boy shoes.”

  The Guardian: Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates

• “For readers mercifully unacquainted with Gillian's body of work, she became famous for a show called You Are What You Eat where she stomped into clinically obese people's homes wearing a teal frock coat and clompy shoes, showed them a trestle table of blancmange and said, "Och, this blancmange is awful bad for you!" before then unveiling a table of twigs and fibrous dust while muttering, "Mmm, lovely twigs!”

  The Guardian: Grace Dent's TV OD: I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

• “And so it is that I find myself favouring a wardrobe of tight, black, mussed up, post-apocalyptic things, ragged cobwebby knits, skull motifs and clompy heeled boots.”

  The Guardian: What I bought this week: leather

• “Gimmicky styles This year's beauties included giant, clompy Elton John-level platform shoes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Brightest

• “With my clompy neighbors, I started wearing earplugs.”

  Parties, leotards and celebratory tuna

• “And today, it was in the 60s, so I wore a cute skirt, BUT it was supposed to rain, so I wore my freakin 'rain boots, and felt like an idiot all day long, walking around in the clear sunshine in a cute spring skirt and big clompy rain boots.”

  misspinkkate Diary Entry

• “Even running shoes are too clompy for me, with my floors of hardwood, laminate or ceramic tile.”

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• “We fear that Mr. Alda's male archetype (1970's, sensitive yet masculine, earnest yet funny) may be lost forever, replaced by men who favor shiny messenger bags, shiny clompy black shoes and a bit too much hair product.”

  February 7 - February 14

• “Over the years Emma grows sophisticated, trading her girlish sundresses and clompy boots for heels and couture, while life-battered Dex comes to appreciate good old Emma as more than a source of sympathy.”

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