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It’s a trend thats come and gone and now its back once again. Funnily,its a style statement that was made centuries ago but the Gladiators,as they are commonly referred to now,strike a stylish note even today. The first time I spotted someone wearing them,I was a fresher in college. For the record,if you are a Delhi University alumna and were part of the arty (read ethnic) set,you would already have had a pair in your closet! So my first pair came in time too,bought off the flea market on Janpath in Connaught Place. Back then sandal-sporting-Russell Crowe had not yet hit the big screen with his blockbuster Gladiator and we called our strappy numbers – Roman sandals. Sexy yet practical,the flats which boasted of a T-strap with multiple straps going across the foot,were a value-for-money pick. As much as everyone made the most of this breezy footwear,Roman sandals or Gladiators as they came to be known later soon lost out to patent peep-toes and flat-out flip flops. In fact,each time you flipped through fashion glossies or browsed through Bollywood photo-ops,the style divas were always walking tall in their sky-high stilettos. And then came Sonam Kapoor and Delhi-6.
Though in the film,the camera never really zooms on her feet or presents a full-length,it was on a visit to the sets of NDTV Imagines OYE! Its Friday for Delhi-6s promotion that we first spotted the Gladiators on her feet. Kapoor teamed her all-black pair with a killer dress in blood-red. Yes,I remember watching the show. Shes quite a fashion diva and I simply loved her black sandals, admits fashion merchandiser Kirat Randhawa who finally zeroed down on a similar pair she found at Ebony in Sector 9. Taking cue we began to look around some more and there we spotted Gul Panag wearing a golden number at the premiere of her recent film Straight. Whats more,she completed her Greco-Roman look by slipping into an ethereal white free-flowing gown. And doing a ditto,complete with the white dress and beige Roman sandals was Kangana Ranaut during the launch of her official website over this weekend. Proving its a comeback trend,we caught pictures of actress Isha Koppikar wearing black gladiators at a store launch in Mumbai recently.
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