Who Wore It Better??: CALL GIRL Edition

So,

Last night I Googled "prostitutes".

hooker (n friend), marni

Then I frantically clicked the back button like fifteen times simultaneously much like a poor 12 year old boy would in the event that his mother casually strolled in on him doing the same.

Immediately, I amended my search term to "Hooker Shoes", 

which proved to be a slightly (ableit not much) better alternative for rendering the results that I sought.

hooker, shotmint

The point of my inappropriate foray into the dregs of the internet was to examine the stereotypical assumption about the footwear of our street's finest walkers.

Why, when I bought my first pair of very very high heels, did more than one companion relay to me their unwelcome opinion that my footwear resembled that of a call girl?

Why do we assume that there's something that separates our Jeffrey Campbell platform booties and Alexander Wang spikey toe pumps from the feet-cladders of the "fallen women".

hooker, wang

I don't know.

Maybe, at some point in time, there was.

Maybe, 1920s everyday women's shoes in no way resembled 1920s hooker's shoes.

Maybe ironic footwear wasn't the proverbial law of the proverbial land the way that it is now.

Today, however,

any sort of line is essentially nonexistent.

And it seems like the "hookers" of lore have had a good thing going.

ALAÏA thinks so, anyway.

But don't take my word for it.

exotic dancer, alaia

hooker, wang

hooker, steve madden

Most inappropriate mention of Reading Rainbow ever?

Quite possibly. 

Quite possibly. 

Cheers.