For anyone looking to make an investment purchase off the back of all of this, however, allow me to direct your attention to Meghan’s footwear during a trip to Colegio La Giralda in Sante Fe on Friday: namely, a pair of two-tone Chanel slingbacks, a shoe that, when spotted in Vogue towers, is met with the sort of “Ooohs!” reserved elsewhere for, say, newborn babies or Internet Boyfriends.
As much a part of the Chanel DNA as the 2.55 or the tweed jacket, it’s Coco who introduced the style in 1957, reclaiming the slingback from risqué affiliations. (In midcentury America, the silhouette had become a favorite of pin-ups of the Bettys Grable and Page variety, an association that Hollywood had beamed across the Atlantic.) Mademoiselle partnered with bottier Raymond Massaro to rework the shoe, lowering and flattening its stiletto to a five-centimeter heel, squaring its toe slightly, and choosing a beige body (to lengthen the leg) and a black cap (to hide any scuffs).
