HM

Senior Footwear & Style Editor

Helena Marchetti

Brooklyn, NY

Tested 400+ pairs since 2014

Helena has covered footwear and ready-to-wear for twelve years, with bylines at WhoWhatWear, Highsnobiety, and the now-shuttered Lucky magazine. She tests on the same two-mile commute every day and has stopped trusting ratings under 4.0.

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  Fashion April 29

  We did the flats. Group chat asked about the pumps. Here.

  Eight low- and mid-heel styles from the brand that quietly runs the under-$40 dress-shoe aisle on Amazon — ranked by which we’d actually wear to a wedding.

  Logged by Helena Marchetti

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  Fashion April 26

  ChainsHouse, sorted: a stainless chain for less than the metal weighs.

  We pulled 147 listings from one brand. Eight earned a spot in the file. The rest are mostly the same chain in seven shades of gold.

  Logged by Helena Marchetti

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  Fashion April 22

  We tried to find an Amazon flat that wasn’t Dream Pairs. We couldn’t.

  Filed under: 200+ ASINs deep, one logo kept winning. The eight pairs that made it into our actual carts.

  Logged by Helena Marchetti