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Long pointy shoes... [6 vote(s)]

...are terribly trendy and look super cool!
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...are bloody silly and should only be worn by clowns!
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...are of no iconsequence to me. Wear 'em. Don't wear 'em. I don't care.
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ddvmor


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The JDK's Clown Shoes Rant
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What is it with clown shoes?

My work shoes have finally kicked the bucket - they're falling apart insiode and so reluctantly, I had to go shoe shopping this evening after work.

It seems that the shoe shop moguls have conspired to require me to purchase enormously long pointy shoes. Every shoe shop I went into had these... clown shoes. That's the only way I can describe them. Long pointy shoes. So long in fact that the size nine shoe pictured below on the left is an inch and a half longer than my own size eleven shoe on the right.



I mean, how do you walk up stairs with these things? Your toes will never get close enough to the step to afford you any purchase. I'd be forever tripping over them (more so than I do anyway, I mean)! It's madness, I tell you.

I had to search high and low for ages before I found any sensible ones.

Are long pointy shoes okay? Or are they just silly? And why are there so many of them?

Feel free to branch out into silly clothing trends in this most awesome of threads. (threads? geddit? see what I did there?)

-- Edited by ddvmor at 22:18, 2007-10-19

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I'm not a fan of long pointy shoes on men or women. I find the same thing in shoes as well. I'm a fan of chunky box/square toes or even rounded toes.. but crazy pointy shoes are everywhere.



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I prefer the rounded-toe look, also. wink




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Pointy toe boots are all I own...I've always had a hard time finding them in 11B...Luchesses always seem to fit best and I usually wind up special ordering them...At least I don't have feet like my Dad, he wore size 14AAAA with a 6A heel (looked like he was wearing skiis)...biggrin...Ben

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Truckman wrote:

Pointy toe boots are all I own...


Yeah but you live in Texas which means you're a cowboy and say 'yeehah' a lot, so pointy boots are okay. I live in Bristol where there are no cowboys - just a bunch of townies with pointy shoes, garish shirts and way too much bling!

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ddvmor wrote:
Yeah but you live in Texas which means you're a cowboy
That reminds me of what happened to me last week...My trusted Indian companion and I rode into town off a dusty trail and went into the local non-alcoholic and sugar-free saloon for a cold glass of iced tea...Soon a cowboy walked in and said, "Who owns this big white stallion out here by the hitch rail?"..."I do," said I..."Well, he's about to collapse from the heat," said the cowboy...


Tonto and I rushed out and sure enough, Silver was wobbly on his hooves...Tonto said, "Kemo sabe, I'll run circles around Silver and create a breeze to cool him off...He'll be alright, you'll see"...Trusting my friend's trail-savvy logic, I went back into the saloon to order us some more iced tea...

Soon another cowboy walked in and said, "Who owns this big white stallion out here by the hitch rail?"..."I do," said I...The cowboy said, "Did you know you left your Injun running?"...

Things like that happen to me all the time in Texas...Ben



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oh god. no.gif

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We had that coming -

I have 2 pairs of stupid pointy shoes and they are dangerous. I fell up the stairs with mine - just yesterday! and I'm the coolest man on the planet - god knows how you normal plebs manage it.

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JonnyStead wrote:

We had that coming -

I have 2 pairs of stupid pointy shoes and they are dangerous. I fell up the stairs with mine - just yesterday! and I'm the coolest man on the planet - god knows how you normal plebs manage it.


If we are, as you say, the 'normal plebs' does this make you the 'abnormal pleb'?



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Catfish wrote:
If we are, as you say, the 'normal plebs' does this make you the 'abnormal pleb'?


Some might make the argument for "subnormal"...confused...Ben



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Yup. I'll go with Ben's assessment there!

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Pfff - jealousy is unbecoming -

I am the coolest man alive - probaby who has ever lived - but I dont like to rub it in... wink.gif

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JonnyStead wrote:
Pfff - jealousy is unbecoming
How about pity. Or condescention?
JonnyStead wrote:
but I dont like to rub it in... wink.gif
Well, it's not going to cure your terrible skin condition if you don't.

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I have plenty of pointy shoes & I don't fall over them. Does this make me cooler than Stead?

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Probably not - being a lady you almost certainly dont have to move about as much as me - in that most of your time is presumably spent sitting down taking tea with guests and talking about the latest fashions and the social scene -

Moving on...

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If that's your definition of a lady then I'm certainly no lady!

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sha76jam wrote:

I have plenty of pointy shoes & I don't fall over them. Does this make me cooler than Stead?


Not necessarily...I'm sure there are plenty of things that make you cooler than Stead besides this one aspect...confused...Ben



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It certainly makes you more stable than Stead!

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I don't mind them at all.

I did, however, spend most of the time between ages 17 and 22 as "a goth" so am sort of used to long pointy shoes used to extract molluscs from their God given portable housing.

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Ooh, have just remembered! I saw the most fantastic pointy shoes ever when I was away - they were black & white & pierced! I must remember to post the pic when I'm home.

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Do. Oh please do! All of us menfolk must see the glorious shoes! blankstare.gif

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They are men's shoes.

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And anyway, who was it that brought up the topic of shoes? And posted a picture? Huh?

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Bet you've not seen shoes this long before.

Cool shoes!

-- Edited by sha76jam at 20:41, 2007-10-22

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I just dont know what to say!

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sha76jam wrote:

Bet you've not seen shoes this long before.


Only at the circus...Ben



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Those shoes are 6 kinds of wrong.

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But somehow they're also many kinds of fabulous!

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where were you? looks like a 1980's Lada in the background?

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Siberia! Krasnyarsk to be precise.

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