Like a stampeding wildebeest, Buffalo led the charge for ensuring pretty much every girl in the nineties was tottering around on their lethal yet lovely (at the time) brand of platform shoes. Going back a step, this type of show was a common sight at a seventies disco and there was even a subtler variant that was worn in the eighties; the nineties style, however, was on another level of kooky, with it being more of a platform boot than a shoe and available in some pretty wild designs, as pictured above. Blame the Spice Girls for making this bulky footwear okay to wear, but in turn thank them for killing the trend the moment they all sodded off on a plane singing 'Goodbye'.
Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing.
He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.
