Will’s View

Being early March, university students throughout the southern hemisphere are returning to class. With the joys of uni come the joys of watching freshmen wander around campus with their heads buried in maps, trying to find their next class.

Although this year there was something a little different. We saw someone walking around in what was effectively a cocktail dress and heels. She still had the traditional diary and map out, trying to get to her next class, and I don’t have any problem with people look nice for the first day of uni. Even still, the heels were somewhat incongruous.

Uni tends to involve a lot of walking. Not only to classes, but to go and see friends for lunch, or just to the nearest public transport stop. And from what I’ve heard from women, heels are uncomfortable to wear at the best of times, let alone for an entire day whilst traipsing about uni. I imagine it’s a lesson one learns reasonably quickly, and painfully.

But why wear heels in the first place? Surely after so many years at school people would rather be in comfortable clothes rather than ridiculously impractical ones. I realise that appearance is overly important to a large proportion of the population, but surely one can find a middle road with a reasonable compromise between looking like a hobo and getting blisters the size of plates.

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