Never Underdressed's staff writer Laura Silver can't stand them
Are people seriously still getting giddy about a shoe that looks like a club foot? And let’s not even begin to talk about the colourful catastrophes knocking around that would look better placed on a cartoon child than a supposedly well-dressed adult woman. They even looked sort of ridiculous on Miranda Kerr, and her superhuman beauty is not easily challenged. Wedges and trainers just don’t belong together. They’re like the shoe equivalent of strawberries and balsamic – nobody really thinks that’s delicious. In ten years’ time, you’re more likely to see them alongside Rat Leggings on Buzzfeed’s ‘33 LOL things we wore pre-2K20’ list than you are pride of place in your favourite vintage shop. Personally, I see no place for trainers, with the exception of the odd Converse or Superga, outside of the gym, but if you must jump on the trainers-as-fashion bandwagon, at least do it properly with a classic pair of Nikes

But news editor Harriet Walker puts her best (wedged) foot forward
I never wore trainers before two years ago. I look wrong in sportswear - I don't have the rich hair or lacrosse pedigree to carry it off with any degree of allure. So the time I started skipping PE classes at school was also around the time I also gave up on trainers too. Until I broke my leg and was forced to buy and recuperate in a pair. They were disgusting. Everything about them was wrong, and they didn't go with any of my clothes. So when I tried a pair of wedged trainers on - an Isabel Marant pair, just to see what all the fuss was about, I was astonished to find they went with everything. They're incredibly flattering on legs, for their chunky, stompy feel - they make any calves look like those of a gazelle, and they don't have half the ridiculous tottery feel that real heels do. And that's something I can't be doing with. So yes, for the wedge trainer I have forsaken my 'no hybrids' fashion rule. Yes, they felt like a flash in the pan at the start and yes, they're ridiculous. But I love them. Not least because you definitely couldn't play lacrosse in them.