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? 
Personally, I don’t think platform sandals are very attractive
Lucky me… I’m 6’1"! Now, bow down, knave!
Roger that.
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…
Ditto. Stupid and ugly.
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.
No fair, you forgot to post pictures to let us judge for ourselves. 
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?
I’m a woman, and in general, I love chunky shoes, because:
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.
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.
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?
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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.
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Some of the platform shoes are OK, but the sandals…blech!
godawful ugly things, but so are spike heels.
Oh, and noisy. I don’t get the whole “noisy female footwear” phenomenon at all. It’s annoying: “whack clack clokk clack”