So you left school more years ago than you can admit, but that doesn't mean that you'll ever lose that 'back to school' feeling come the start of September. Where once those stomach somersaults were down to panic overt whether or not you had the right compass, furry pencil case and name-taped knickers, that very same feeling is now evoked by the sadness that your summer holiday is actually over (it only took 8 months of saving up: cool), your depression over putting away the denim cut-offs and resurrecting the gigantic knitwear and conversely, a slight excitement about the new season clothes that begin to drop.
And with this season, The Big Ole AW14, 'back to school' is more on the brain than ever before. Because these shoes couldn't really be any schoolier than if they were an actual pair of Kickers. Not only is 90s clodhopper emporium Shelly's now back on London's Oxford Street, but all those shoes you loved as a kid, or in your early teens - DM lace-ups, chunky loafers, creepers and platform mules - are all back in fashion. Fuck Clarks, it was all about these shoes.
Doesn't mean you always got them, though, does it? The biggest advantage of this trend is that these are all the kind of shoes that you probably weren't actually allowed to wear at school; that only the cool kids with super-chilled mothers let them wear. Kickers you just about got away with; but platforms? Not on your nelly (Shelly). So here's your chance to catch up. Fluffy pencil case, at the ready.
Our favourites? Those Bugsy Malone Claudie Pierlots and Topshop's DM-alikes (for half the price.)
Stylist: Pandora Sykes
Creative Direction: Anna Jay
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.