# Men: Do any of you actually find platform sandals attractive? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296 "2003-11-14T19:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/41 "2003-11-16T21:24:19Z")
> [@](#): > > The footwear I despise, though, are the black, clunky, combat-wear-looking, clodstomping, shitkicking boots. They are not feminine, and I am thankful that the trend has gone out of fashion. Like **Nocturne** , I wear these boots. I have regular 8-hole Docs for work, and knee-high medium-heeled ones for dressing up all goth. I’m not offended, but I like them, and hadn’t noticed they’d gone out of fashion. They certainly haven’t in the goth subculture. And besides, what’s not to love about a cute chick in a vinyl minidress, fishnets and Docs? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rampagingcarrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rampagingcarrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rampagingcarrot)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/42 "2003-11-17T05:58:51Z")
Personally, I don’t think platform sandals are very attractive ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/43 "2003-11-17T06:07:46Z")
Lucky me… I’m 6’1"! Now, bow down, knave! ---
**Author:** ![commie\_sho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@commie\_sho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commie_sho)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/44 "2003-11-17T06:37:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Omnipresent \* > \*\*I HATE sandals of ANY kind on male OR female. \*\* Roger that. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Colinmarshall \* > \*\*I’m not much for regular sandals, either. Flip-flops look pretty bad on anybody, from an aesthetic standpoint. Feet aren’t cute. \*\* Wrong. They can be very. I would say in the general population of females, feet are cute maybe…10% of the time. In the sandal/flipflop/platform sandal population, this drops to absolute zero. Literally, atoms stop moving. My mom told me once that habitual highheel use will mess up a woman’s feet, and so most of the time women with nice looking feet wear sensible gym shoes. Stephanie demonstrated this hypothesis flawlessly… ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/45 "2003-11-17T08:57:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mach Tuck \* > \*\*They look incredibly stupid, and serve to make women less attractive. \*\* Ditto. Stupid and ugly. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/46 "2003-11-17T11:28:07Z")
Nope, they look ugly (especially the ones where the platform looks like it’s made of cork - too trashy and too 70s), women always look on the verge of tipping over when trying to walk in them, and I have to supress the urge to shout “Timber!” when they totter by in them. Now those boots that seem to be in fashion for the ladies right now are another story. Even the ones with the chunky heels/souls can look good. Count me in as a male who notices women’s shoes, but when you have your head hung in shame a lot you can’t help it. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Lissla Lissar_ > And besides, what’s not to love about a cute chick in a vinyl minidress, fishnets, and Docs? 😃 No fair, you forgot to post pictures to let us judge for ourselves. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/47 "2003-11-17T13:16:50Z")
_sigh_ I constantly lament women’s fashion these days. I’m well aware I’m apparently in the minority in what I as a woman really like to wear, but I SO wish elegant, feminine vintage clothing would come back into style. =( To heck with the 70’s coming back every 2 years, I want to see the fashions of the 1890’s, the 20’s, the 40’s! I want to wear dresses like Lucille Ball used to wear. I _like_ wearing dresses to go shopping. I feel sexy when I wear a corset. I prefer ankle length skirts and dresses and detest mini-skirts. I desparately miss being able to easily find non-ugly, non-chunky heeled, non-platform shoes that don’t make me look like I’m wearing orthopedic footwear or trying to be Frankenstein. _sigh_ Why can’t I just find a good, old-fashioned pair of 3-4 inch pumps? ---
**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/48 "2003-11-17T14:14:36Z")
I’m a woman, and in general, I love chunky shoes, because: 1. They suit me. There’s no point in me pretending that I have thin, graceful, waif-like feet, because I don’t. I have Barney Rubble feet (except that I do have five toes as opposed to his three). Delicate, ladylike shoes just emphasize the Clydesdale nature of my feet. 2. They’re comfortable. Even if I did have perfect feet, I would not wear regular high heels very often. They’re difficult to walk in and horribly uncomfortable—even painful—and they can cause deformed feet, shortened Achilles tendons, and back problems. 3. They’re fun. That being said, those thongs with a three- to four-inch cork/Styrofoam sole are just wrong. I think only a woman with perfect feet would look okay in those, and if you are one of the three women in the world with perfect feet, then why not wear something to emphasize that, like a nice strappy sandal? [slight hijack] The relatively new fashion of trying to make every shoe resemble a bowling shoe and/or turning every possibly style of shoe into a mule is what I _really_ hate. [/slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![CrazyMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@CrazyMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/49 "2003-11-17T19:02:52Z")
_Some_ of the platform shoes are OK, but the sandals…blech! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/50 "2003-11-17T19:48:19Z")
godawful ugly things, but so are spike heels. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296/51 "2003-11-17T19:53:41Z")
Oh, and noisy. I don’t get the whole “noisy female footwear” phenomenon at all. It’s annoying: “whack clack clokk clack” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-any-of-you-actually-find-platform-sandals-attractive/213296.md?page=2)