SHE fell in love with a pair of jewelled heels in Zara so decided to splash out on the £56 shoes for her graduation.
But Amber was left “so embarrassed” when she took them with her on holiday with her sister, only for her sibling to tell her she’d been wearing them wrong “forever”.
Amber revealed her fashion fail in a video on her TikTok page, as she said: “I found out today that I’ve been wearing these shoes wrong forever. I bought them for graduation from Zara.
“And I’ve been wearing them wrong and my sister was like, ‘You know, you aren’t supposed to wear them like that!'”
Amber then demonstrated how she had been wearing the shoes – with the strap across the middle of her foot.
Before showing how they were meant to be worn – with the strap at the back, across the heel.
Trying out the correct way, Amber marvelled: “Oh my God, and it actually stays on!
“This is amazing!
“Who’d have thunk? Not I!”
Amber went on to admit she was “mind blown” after making the discovery, as she said: “Wow I’m embarrassed!
“The whole time I’ve been wearing them wrong.
“Did anyone else know this or is it just me?”
“On another note I love these shoes,” she wrote in the video caption.
But lots of people in the comments section insisted they knew immediately how the shoes should be worn – especially as they’re called ‘Slingback Shoes’ on the Zara website.
“I don’t have them and I knew that,” one laughed.
“‘Who’d have thunk!’ – literally everyone,” another added.
“I thought that was common sense,” a third commented.
Zara was founded in 1975 in Spain, and the first UK store was opened in 1998. It remains as one of the most popular stores on the high street, but why?
Rather than producing more quantities of a style, it is said Zara focuses on producing more styles.
Some stats suggest Zara releases 24 trend-led collections every year, 500 designs a week and almost 20,000 per year. Other estimates put its production levels at 450 million garments a year.
Even if a style sells out very quickly, there are new styles waiting to take up the space. This means more choices and higher chance of getting it right with the consumer.
Zara only allows its designs to remain on the shop floor for three to four weeks, and this pushes the consumer to keep visiting the store or website, because if they were just a week late, the clothes of a particular style or trend would be sold out and replaced with a new trend.
At the same time, this constant refreshing of the lines and styles carried by its stores also entices customers to visit its shops more frequently.
“How did nobody tell you sooner?” someone else said.
“How could you not know that lol?” another wondered.
However, other people defended Amber, with one writing: “It’s ok though because they look nice the way you were wearing them too!”
“I wear it the first way but it hurts after hours and I transfer to second version,” another added.
“Both works!”
“As someone that has never worn slingbacks, I thought the first way was the right way too,” a third commented.
“But now you have 2 pairs sis!” someone else said.
