Whether adorned with a metal handle or flask or embroidered with a dizzying pattern, the novelty cane has plenty of personality the sight of them triggered my first smile in days. The cane, as the glittering array of options on showed me, is also a fantastic way to deflect attention away from an unshapely bandage or, in my case, the Adidas track pants I took to wearing to conceal my swollen calf and ankle. When I healed up, I passed that one on to another stranger who looked like he could use it.” “He had another one at home, he claimed, and it was cheap. “A man on the street saw me sidestepping up my rail-less front stoop in what I referred to as my ‘robot boot’ and gave me his cane,” she said. First, there was the hand-carved African walking stick her grandfather lent her and then the one she inherited from a sympathetic stranger who saw her attempting to navigate a precarious set of stairs. After undergoing a series of surgeries for a shattered ankle, the long-distance runner found herself suddenly traversing city blocks, stairways, and ice-covered sidewalks with the help of crutches and canes, opting for classic, pared-down styles. They kind of reminded me of a character in an Edith Wharton novel, though as Contributing Editor Rebecca Johnson pointed out, they often carry an unfair stigma. Why hadn’t they offered me this at the doctor’s office? There was something regal and dignified about a cane-Old World, even. How a Fashionable Cane got One Vogue Writer back on her Feet!Īh yes, a cane, I thought. Quite honestly, Im secretly looking forward to choosing mine! You see, it is an elegant appendix to our style and purpose and ever so useful.įirstly I would like to introduce you to a young woman whose attitude of having to use a cane to assist in her recovery.

Are we going to made this time in our life full of negative thoughts and actions or are we going to open up to positive possibilities? The Walking Stick or The Elegant Cane may present itself if we, or our parents require to consider using one. Just like turning sixty, we have to make a decision.

Elegant walking canes