Flatforms are shoes with a thick, even layer under the whole foot, so the heel is not much higher than the toes. They make you a little taller, like platform shoes, but you stand almost level, not on a spike heel. Fashion people made the name; younger shoppers and magazines use it. You will see it on labels more than in old textbooks. People also just say thick-soled flats when they do not know the fashion word. It is almost always plural, like jeans: you buy flatforms, not “a flatform,” unless you are talking about one shoe. Informal, clothes-shop English.

厚底平底鞋。口語常直接說厚底鞋；時尚雜誌有時照寫 flatforms。