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KEEP ON CHUCKIN' KAMALA!
Ah, Kamala Harris, how do I love thee?
I could count the ways, but I, like the rest of the nation, have just recently learned that the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate regularly wears Chuck Taylor Converse sneakers to important public campaign events.
And for that I love Kamala Harris to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Because if Kamala wears Chuck Taylors, then that means that I can wear them, too, and not just for kicking around in; especially if, thanks to Kamala's example, wearing Chuck Taylors or other sneakers as business or dress attire - and not just what you wear to give you feet a break before you put on and after you take off your uncomfortable dress shoes - becomes the acceptable norm.
I've long been an advocate of over-throwing old perceptions of required of work and formal footwear, especially for women. To quote myself from a March 12, 2014 post entitled "What Do We Want? Sneakers! When Do We Want Them? Now! (Or At Least I Do!)":
I've always felt that men were more fortunate than women when it came to footwear. I mean, when a man is dressed in a power suit he stands on solid shoes with firm support. When a woman is dressed in a power suit she teeters on high heels that kill her toes and restrict her movement. So how powerful can you be when your feet are bound? Because when you think about the function and purpose, aren't high heels just a more evolved form of foot-binding?
And now, out of my dreams and into my news feed steps Kamala Harris, the woman who may be on track to become the understudy for the most powerful position on the planet, striding from her plane and across the airfield like the powerful, important woman she is,
I've always felt that men were more fortunate than women when it came to footwear. I mean, when a man is dressed in a power suit he stands on solid shoes with firm support. When a woman is dressed in a power suit she teeters on high heels that kill her toes and restrict her movement. So how powerful can you be when your feet are bound? Because when you think about the function and purpose, aren't high heels just a more evolved form of foot-binding?
And now, out of my dreams and into my news feed steps Kamala Harris, the woman who may be on track to become the understudy for the most powerful position on the planet, striding from her plane and across the airfield like the powerful, important woman she is,
...in sneakers. Chuck Taylors, no less.
It was a breakthrough image, a moment of epiphany and a call for foot fashion liberation for me and, hopefully, all women.
And so I pray that Kamala will keep on wearing her Chuck Taylors everywhere she goes. I hope that from now on she wears them to every important public event she attends.
I especially hope she wears those power sneakers to her debate with Mike Pence.
And so I pray that Kamala will keep on wearing her Chuck Taylors everywhere she goes. I hope that from now on she wears them to every important public event she attends.
I especially hope she wears those power sneakers to her debate with Mike Pence.
(The better to walk all over him with).
I hope wearing Chuck Taylors subsequently catches on like wildfire not just for the younger set but for women of all ages. Even my age. I say this because today, in a moment of hopeful exuberance I ordered myself a pair of teal (because that was the clearance color) Chuck Taylors.
I'll wear them in solidarity with Kamala and all women who, thanks to her example, decide that real power is born of daring to wear comfortable shoes. And clothes.
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