‘The absence becomes the point’: the steady march of barely there shoes

Dear Frances offers the latest take on ballet flats, offering ‘a glove-like fit wearability’ – which is fine if you have nice feet When is a shoe not a shoe? On sale this month is a pair that seems to pose the question – the no shoe-shoe is the work of the cult brand Dear Frances and the latest in a steady march of shoes that are barely there; a take on naked dressing but for the foot. The Balla shoe, which the brand calls a “sock shoe”, covers almost the entire foot, but also leaves it – encase