Carrie Bradshaw that high heels never takes them away. But is there really someone who wears them also at home?

For twenty -six years we have accepted that Carrie Bradshaw possess Shoes and clothes for tens (hundreds) of thousands of dollars. We decided to believe that, despite her precarious economic situation, the New York writer could afford 40 thousand dollars of shoes – as she herself discovers in an episode of the fourth season of Sex and the City. Of his finances we often speak during the series, e A recent study made her deal in your pocket To find that, of course – and despite the rent blocked in Manhattan – never, not even in the nineties, could have afforded that lifestyle nor much less that dream wardrobe. But it has never imported to us. We wanted outfits, and we always wanted them different, beautiful and luxurious. We sacrificed realism on the altar of fashion. Except then trying to replicate those looks in real life by resorting to selling out and vintage boutiques.

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Then the girls grew up, and we with them. And while our heels lowered themselves as our age advanced and our lifestyle changed – the work, for some the parenting, the worldly occasions that decreased – Carrie has always remained firm on its stiletto heels.

If her character has evolved (among other things, the economic problems also vanished once the heritage of the deceased big) has been inherited), the identity of the character was strongly rooted to his Stilettos. So it continues to seem obvious to us See her walk through the streets of Manhattanchatting with his friends, while he stands on his 12 centimeters of heel. In some moments we came to think that, If we also lived in New York instead of in the historic center of an Italian city with its Pavé and Sanpietriniperhaps we wouldn’t have given up on heels so easily.

But then we realize that even when we organize a dinner at home, although not to move from the kitchen to the living room, the wonderful ones décolleté that we have re -examined from the bottom of the wardrobe we endure them with difficulty. It is not just a height, it is the sole of the foot that no longer adapts to that sharp point. Perhaps it is age. Or more likely of pregnancy. Because, to think about it, we are about ten years old than Carrie. Or perhaps, if at 55 you no longer need to work and you have no one to deal with (with the exception of the kitten Shoe – Scarpa, in fact), do not drive a car nor do you take public transport, but you limit yourself to short journeys to reach the place deputy for brunch with friends and climb on taxis and machines with a driver for the longer movements, here, in these conditions, the plant of your foot has remained thin and tapered, and fit a couple of dizzying Manolos no longer appears as an inconceivable sacrifice.

And this is how, to paraphrase the title of the series, we end up finding plausible that our darling even undertakes A travel by plane on dizzying sandals. Especially since the shoes in question (by Vivienne Westwood) are the same as Carrie he wore to meet Aidan A Abu Dhabi in the film Sex and the City 2. And for these quotations of which the series is scattered we go crazy.

Finally, we accept that, having arrived in rural virginia with that one inappropriate pair of shoes, I play it continues to wear it, gathering on stairs, sinking the heels in the lawn and finally driving a quad to reach the country boutique where you buy yes other clothes, but not other shoes. So in the following days spent at Aidan’s house, Carrie reviews herself to wearing style clothes The house on the prairie And at the feet … nothing. Why What is the only possible alternative to heels? None.

We now arrive at the last episode transmitted so far, the number 5, issued on Friday 27 June. The episode opens with the arrival of an unexpected neighbor and continues with a long scene – about 45 seconds – in which the heels of Carrie ticchettare back and forth on the parquet of the Gramercy Park apartmenton the notes of These boots are made for walking. The images of shoes storms with crystals, paint boots, sandals and jewel décolleté, the filming of the squalid alternate basement Where the mysterious neighbor stays: it is day, but we see him turn around and turn to the bed evidently annoyed by noise.

Let’s find out that the gruff but fascinating nearby is an English writer, a well -known author of biographies, who spends in New York six months a year by working at night and trying to rest during the day. Duncan, that’s how it is called, as understandable knocks several times at the Carrie’s door to pray to her not to beat on her head. For her it is a categorical no. He will order rugs to cushion the noise, he promises, but Without heels in the house never and then never.

This is where our suspension of disbelief finally begins to falter. We accepted that for decades our heroine spent in shoes more than he earned and that he wore heels on every occasion even the least appropriate (not only in the countryside, but even in a souk in the Arab Emirates). But we cannot believe that Carrie does not go down from heels even when he is at home, and alone.

We leave out the rudeness and disinterest in the basic rules of civil coexistence (not even the friends manage to give her right when, during the usual lunch, Carrie complains of the unacceptable request of the neighbor), but which woman – even without neighbors – first of all once the threshold of the house does not abandon high shoes with relief?

How does the story end? A couple of slippers given and a dinner with the neighbor after, Carrie will become more indulgent, but be careful: for the good of him and his work, not for that of his spine. And which one will present itself as the only possible alternative to heels? Barefoot, of course.