Having worked in the shoe business in the Netherlands for some years; yup. High-end shoes have been getting ridiculously pointy. Personally, I think they look ridiculous.
Wow, those are pretty funny.
I wish it would get fashionable to make shoes that are actually shaped like feet. What a concept.
Vibram tried that with their five fingered shoes. They failed to take the fashion world by storm.
The really pointy ones were worn in the 1300s-maybe that style will return?
Panama Jack chukkas.
Pointy European dress shoes are also very fashionable in West Africa.
That. Almost overnight, it became nearly impossible to find a pair of shoes that wasn’t pointy (although they seem to have become less pointy more recently, it seems to me). Who the hell was made king and decided we would all want pointy shoes from now on?
Well let’s see here.
These are the shoes I, a European in my early 30’s, bought to wear at a recent wedding where I was the best man, and therefore had to look prim and proper.
Would the OP - and the rest of y’all Americans - consider them eyebrow-raisingly pointy?
You paid EUR 400 for a pair of shoes?
Plus, I can’t get over the fact that the Carmina Austerity Brogue also costs EUR 400.
But, to answer your question, they’re pointier than I would choose for myself, but not excessively pointy given the pointiness of shoes generally these days.
Yeah it felt ridiculous. But the bride’s family is like crazy intimidating rich folks and I didn’t want to make a fool of myself as that one working-class kid who shows up in sneakers, y’know? Literally had nightmares about the bride staring at me like “what is that even doing here!?” So I guess I, uh, ended up overcompensating a little bit. Wasn’t just shoes, either: I ended up buying a suit, a shirt and a tie, too, just to fit in at this thing.
Anyway sorry about the hijack, back to the topic at hand.
Re: Steken - No, those aren’t too pointy
Nametag below was pretty close on the proportions except shoes I saw had a top panel/tongue that rolled over into a square toe with side panels. Some were almost ankle boots.
I’ve been seeing them here in the U.S. for the last couple years and I’ve seen them in Brazil for the same amount of time. I own a few pairs as well.
No, I’m not talking about finger shoes. I don’t want things wedged between my toes. And it’s hard enough getting gloves that don’t have some too long fingers and some bunched in the wedges between, I don’t need that on my feet. Plus, those have very little pad. They aren’t anything like sneakers or boots.
Those still seem a bit too pointy, though maybe you just expect them to be a bit longer in the toe for extra room. That’s pretty much how I have to wear shoes anyway - get them wide enough and put up with clown feet.
Here is a picture of foot impressions on shoe foot pads. See how long versus how narrow they are?
Here is a comparison sketch of foot shape prior to and after lifelong use of shoes. See how the toes are crunched to fit the shape of shoes?
I did, however, find this. Cool. I will have to check out the Altra’s. Not for running, for daily wear. Because feet.
By the way, there is a beautiful cutaway showing what I mean, standard shoes and Altra’s. Feet aren’t narrow at the front end, they are wide there. There is variation in exactly which toes are longest, but toes aren’t supposed to point inward, they are supposed to be straight out from the knuckles.
Unfortunately, I have a bad bunion on my left foot caused by wearing poor shoes. My right has a slight one that doesn’t cause me troubles, but for some reason the left got the worse end of it, and is really deformed, and sensitive. I’ve managed to do okay lately, but it’s a struggle to get shoes that don’t make my foot ache.
They are excessively pointy, but not excessively long like the others posted.