If I were to tell you I hadn’t had a pedicure in almost a year, would you hold it against me? While I’ve kept to my mani appointments, a mixture of small-talk fatigue and my toddler breaking my big toe in several places twice in six months has rendered the hour-long pedi appointments all-too-easy to back out of.

Luckily for me, the very chicest French fashion circles look to have joined my movement. Whether they, too, have had their toes smashed to smithereens by an overzealous one-year-old or have rather just grown tired of sandals being the summer default, the It girls of Paris seem to have come to a collective decision that toes are officially out. Of style, I mean. Crucially, they’re very much in when it comes to your footwear…