Ellee remarks:

The outfits were elegant and demure imageand deliberately understated to accommodate the renowned British reserve. But one thing stood out and disappointed me about Carla Sarkozy’s carefully planned wardrobe during her visit to the UK last week -where were the heels?

I’m the biggest fashion ignoramus in the world, but it must be the height, surely?

After having crawled through the soft focus shots, the Mick Jagger shots, the seductress with a guitar pics, the “Me Tarzan You Jane” Sarko-the-hero photos, the “trimmest bottom in the world that you cannot quite see” photos, and the rest (i.e., the first few pages of Google image search) - I found this one:

(via Random Citations)

The BBC has recorded Mr Sarkozy as being 1.65m (5′ 6″ for traditionalists) tall:

I read recently that the French Prime Minister, the aristocratically tall Dominique de Villepin, has been privately making fun of his small but perfectly formed party boss and interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy.

But after the 6ft 5in (1.96m) De Gaulle and 6ft 1in (1.87m) Chirac, could Sarko, at a mere 5ft 5in (1.65m), make it to the Elysee Palace?

Yes, we all know about the French and small men, but according to my sources Napoleon was slightly taller at 5ft 6.5in (1.69m).

Meanwhile the Times said:

From the outset, her state visit was beset by sartorial conundrums. There was the small - quite literally - matter of her bijou husband. At 5ft 9in, she was never going to be able to finish her Dior ensembles with Galliano’s towering skyscrapers.

And Manolo (of the Shoes) has beaten me to the draw. Manolo puts it like this (inimitably):

Manolo says, the Manolo has long been of the opinion that the tall girls should be free to wear the heels, that they should not, either through timidity, or the desire to protect the fragile egos of shorter mens, avoid wearing the super fantastic shoes.

Here, now, is the special case of the tall girl, her short man, and the flat shoes.

Left to right, you see before you, Prince Philip, Carla Bruni, the hotty-ish first French lady, Queen Elizabeth, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France.

And here is the reason for Ms. Bruni’s flat shoes…

Wrapping Up

When you see her in heels, look out too for the beer crate that he is standing on.

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