Lately, I occasionally see guys (usually young and fashion forward) wearing dress shoes that, to me, look ludicrously long in the toe – like, there’s obviously at least an inch of empty toe space. I presume this is a new fashion trend, but I find it more amusing than attractive… to me it seems kind of like a modern-day codpiece, tapping into the “You know what they say about guys with long toes” thing. Has anybody else noticed (or actually adopted) this?
any examples to link to?
Well, there’s this, but I feel like even this example doesn’t quite do justice to some of what I’ve seen. One problem is that just looking at the shoe doesn’t really convey it – you have to see the shoe on the foot, so that it’s obvious that it’s way too long.
If this is something you’re only noticing recently, you can probably blame Canada.
John Fluevog has been cobbling elf-shoes for decades.
Oh, I thought you meant something like these
ETA: Curse my slow fingers!
The mexican pointy boots are the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Thanks for enlightening me.
All of my shoes have a big gap at the front, but that’s just because my feet are very wide for their length. To get shoes that fit me width-wise, I either need to go up several sizes in length (even with the wide sizes), or go to a cobbler and spend more money than I’m willing to on shoes that are extra-extra-wide.
Yep, I think they are meant to give an impression of greater size. I’ve seen more than one pair that ventured beyond “longer than normal” into “heading to clown college” territory.
I’ve been seeing this a lot on celebrities. I watch the Graham Norton Show and he’s been sporting them. I tried to google pictures but can’t find any with the type of shoe you are talking about but I know I’ve seen them before and I thought the same thing.
That it adds an inch or two to make your feet look bigger so all the ladies wet their panties imagining how big your cock is. It also looks dumb. You can obviously see where the buldge of their toes stop and then the last inch or so is flat.
Well, it’s not just men’s shoes. Women’s shoes/boots “fashion” have included the super-narrow, super-pointy, super-long toe boxes for years now.
They look stupid on women, too. Ug-ly.
Those Mexican boots…?
Shut. Up.
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I hate this trend. It’s been around fora few years at least. I go to the shoe store and it seems like three quarters of the shoes they have are pointed this way. The staff always tell me that pointed shoes are dressier or somesuch, but I think it just looks bad. I’m lucky if they have two non-pointy styles in my size that I can choose from. Men’s shoes are supposed to be comfortable; sacrificing comfort for the sake of fashion to that degree is too girly for my taste.
Have you tried Hitchcock shoes? My father wears a quintuple E, and he’s been getting shoes from them ever since I can remember.
Same here. I didn’t know I was being fashionable.
Thanks for the link, Lynn, but I don’t think that shoes are something I’d buy online. Even if the size is right, some are just more or less comfortable than others, so you want to try them on first. I’ll just stick with K-mart (which does at least have W sizes, unlike Wal-Mart).
If your feet are just Wide, then yeah, buying in person is best. I don’t think that EEEEE width is available at K Mart or Wal Mart, though.
Well, I don’t know exactly how many Es I am, just that it’s a little more than what’s available at K-Mart. But the toe gap doesn’t bother me all that much, anyway (doubtless at least partly because I don’t know what I’m missing).
In cowboy boots, we used to call those super-pointed ones (but NOT as pointed as the Mexican ones and not tilted up at all) “cockroach killers” on account of they could really reach into the corners and under things.
They’ve been around forever.