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Having covered flats, points, boots and sandals, I decided to quiz my panel of men about what they thought a preference for trainers said about a woman’s personality. Behold the findings!

Trainers are normally heard-wearing and practical – apparently like the people that wear them, I was informed by my panel!  Often designed for comfort, durability or to fulfill a particular function (like running a marathon), the panel decided that trainers appeal to women to whom expensive fashion statements and designer shoes mean little or nothing.

“Obviously everybody needs some trainers for the gym or going on a walk and stuff, but if a woman prefers wearing trainers to other shoes it’s probably because she’s not so bothered about looking stylish…which can be a good thing!”

Apparently if a women is neither working out nor doing the gardening, she should consider wearing something more “stylish” if she wants to impress the majority of guys on my panel. However, there were a few of them that stood their ground and decided that they actually preferred women in trainers because it suggests “…a casual, relaxed personality; not obsessed with her looks”. This minority also agreed amongst themselves that women in trainers were more fun because they could do anything in trainers, where some activities are just unsuitable for boots, heels and the like.

Personally, I think it entirely depends of the kind of trainer and the rest of the woman’s style; trainers look odd with ball gowns, but good with jeans. Heels, in my opinion, work the other way round entirely; wearing heels with jeans reminds me of the women you see at 04:00 on a Saturday morning, clinging desperately to their pot-bellied husband as they totter home from Oceana.

However, the overall response was that trainers are “for women who prefer gardening and books to men”. Sorry Paula Radcliffe.