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The Closet Thinker: three best espadrilles
Viva la espadrille.
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It's forever struck me as an doing of belief to wear espadrilles in a British summer - 1 heavy rainstorm of rain and the soles corner to mush - but apparently there is a morale of optimism nigh, as a heap of new teens can be specked out and almost in them, following in the footsteps of Alexa Chung. The last period they were so prevalent was the 1980s - Don Johnson donned them in Miami Vice, and George Michael in Wham! - and I remember slip-slopping around London in a pink pair I'd bought on a Spanish vacation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], until they fell separately on a drizzly bank-holiday weekend.
Thus without espadrilles there might be no Manolos (dream a collateral macrocosm in which he ran the banana plantation, instead?). Still, here we are in a season of designer espadrilles - [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] zebra-print wedges for ￡295, scarlet batik ones from Oscar de la Renta for ￡240. They're faultless for Park Avenue princesses, though maybe not for a wet Whitsunday in Crouch End…
So you can comprehend why the espadrille provided Manolo Blahnik with his initial inspiration, as a tiny chap growing up above a banana plantation in the Canary Islands. The espadrilles belonged apt Blahnik's granny, Maria Socorro (a label namely means 'help'); and he saw them with the strange intensity of a child's earliest memory: 'They were linen,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with soles of jute, and black bandages that laced up the thigh - no very agreeable quality,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but to me they were smart. Sometimes Maria would untie the ribbons, and you could look the ruddy marks left above her leg…' Thereafter he would watch his Spanish mom make her own espadrilles, trimmed with ribbons and lace: 'I'm sure I procured my interest in shoes genetically, alternatively at fewest through my fingers, while I was granted to touch them as they were made.'
But espadrilles have a far longer history than that; the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Spain has in its accumulation a grass-soled sandal said to be 4,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 years old,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which looks very like the classic espadrilles made in Catalonia because at least five centuries, if I were you more. The Catalan name for them namely espardenya, and whether you're ever in Barcelona, you can purchase them at La Manual Alpargatera, a workshop established in the early 1940s, which supplied Salvador Dalí with his favourite pairs in black or pearly canvas. Dalí's friends and contemporaries - Picasso, Chanel, Colette - were equally comfortable in espadrilles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wearing them with white cotton jeans, striped navigator tops and one wind of nonchalance, a alignment immediately synonymous with Riviera chic.

BY Justine Picardie |15 May 2009

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