Tinie Tempah is fond of a cropped pair, cuffed at the ankle and worn with skater-style trainers and a crisp white shirt.
They contrasted starkly with the macho style of trainers like Wolfgang Holzair and Clyde Beatty, who sought to terrify the audience by staging mock confrontations with their animals.
I pick up some elegant, dusky blue kitten heels and some cute French-style white trainers, putting aside rational fears over the white suede strips and convincing myself they'll do for work and play on non-sweltering summer days.
But the gamble to run the horse over the longer distance for the first time paid off in superb style for trainer Nicky Henderson.
You can wear them with Keds-style pumps, trainers or a preppy espadrille wedge shoe.
And a Spanx-style waist trainer, the kind of slimming tool endorsed by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, posed stretchy, neutral-toned questions on how much 21st century underwear continues to subjugate, rather than empower or celebrate, the female physique.
Some very uncharitable style snobs include trainers – or sneakers, as fashion people, irritatingly, have taken to calling them – under the "kit" banner, insisting tennis shoes should be worn only to play that sport, running shoes for running, and so on.
Viral Style: Light-Up Trainers And Invisibility Cloaks.
Adidas says they'll "get you rodeo-ready with their hybrid cowboy-boot-meets-basketball-trainer style" and Latino blog, Remezcla describes them as the, "mexican hipster-est thing ever," but honestly, we're just confused.
