Jaw-Dropping

I don’t know whether to treat this seriously or not; all I know is that my jaw hit the table upon reading about the Aphrodite Project Platforms.

 

Although, I have to say that I don’t think that the designers have thought this through. I remember living through the 1970s when platforms were ubiquitous (I even had a pair myself, but we won’t go there). I also remember being in a hospital out-patients department sitting alongside my lover at the time who had just had a concussion via a skating accident. Suddenly, the doors burst open, and in tottered a gaggle of fashionable young ladies surrounding one of their number who was having even more difficulty walking than the rest of them. As they explained to the doctor, she fell off her platforms…