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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 Higher the Heel, the Harder the Fall Tina Gaudoin 2011

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.

Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates Jess Cartner-Morley 2010

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.

What I bought this week: leather Polly Vernon 2010

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

Brightest Christina Binkley 2010

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!"

Grace Dent's TV OD: I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Grace Dent 2010

With my clompy neighbors, I started wearing earplugs.

Parties, leotards and celebratory tuna Michele 2006

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 misspinkkate 2008

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

feet 2006

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 2001

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 2001