I Found Mules I Can Actually Walk In

By

Najwa Jamal,

the updates coordinator at the Strategist.

She writes about fashion and beauty. Prior, she was a fact-checker at New York.

I’ve been scarred by mules, literally and metaphorically, since the first 70-degree day in March this year, when I finally had the chance to wear a pair of Maria Giudicelli mules I’d thrifted back in November. Within minutes, I felt blisters developing from the stiff satin rubbing against the front sides of my foot, and I only made it to a coffee shop five blocks away from my apartment before giving up. Some weeks later, I decided to give a different pair of mules from Le Monde Beryl (an incredible the RealReal score) a chance and more or less suffered the same fate. The grosgrain ribbon lining on the shoe’s opening dug into the same spots as the Giudicellis. Within a mile of my commute, I had to change into the soft suede Gewls I’d packed in case of a blister emergency.