Jennifer Lawrence saw the return of ballet flatsâthe notoriously unsupportive, sweaty, stinky shoe craze of the mid-2000sâand said, âI can top that.â With jelly shoes. Those jelly fisherman sandals that were popular in the â80s, and then for a second in the â90s, and basically once every seven years or so we rediscover their whimsical cuteness before remembering that they give you the sweatiest soles and worst blisters of your life. This is brave, J.Law. Brave and bold.
The Oscar winner and casual style maven took to the streets of New York City, where humidity is currently 91%, in loose white slacks, a butter yellow button-down over a white tank, a straw bag, a stone pendant necklace, and clear jelly shoes. Itâs giving cool aunt who makes her own bread. Itâs giving favorite art teacher on her way to the studio. And itâs cute, it works, itâs all good, but Jen, hon, do you need some Birkenstocks? Iâll send you Birkenstocks. Once you wear them in, so comfy! Jelly shoes do not wear in. They just stay plastic foot prisons.
REES, ULRA
Ultimately, Jennifer Lawrence is gonna wear what Jennifer Lawrence is gonna wear. Studded flats on a CitiBike? She will, she has. The âI Told Yaâ shirt? She did, she told yaâ. Bringing back the enormous boho bags that had us all walking lopsided for a decade? Sheâll do it, donât even try and stop her. She can pull off pretty much any look, and I love that sheâs been leaning toward breezy, low-maintenance ensembles rather than the done-up âaestheticâ and â-coreâ concoctions her starlet peers have to wriggle in and out of.
Lawrence even added the controversial âmillennial socksâ to her loafers, which are both comfortable and prevent rub. Which again begs the questionâ¦are jelly shoes back for real? because if so, Iâm gonna need a bucket of Band-Aids, stat.
