From Lily Collins at Wimbledon to cast of Love Island, heels-averse cohort is stepping it up a notch
Gen Z, the flats-only generation, has finally succumbed to the heel – albeit a tiny one. Long vocally anti-heel, the cohort who were born between 1997 and 2012 have famously shunned millennials’ obsession with Jimmy Choos in favour of pancake-flat shoes, from the “It-trainer”, Adidas Sambas, to split-toe Margiela Tabi’s and so-called “French girl ballet flats”.
But they now appear to be embracing a potential gateway heel, typically measuring in the region of 1.5in or the height of a triple-A battery.
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