In my constant struggle to keep our regulars on this blog on the cutting edge of fashion, I give you the Mexican pointy boot. These are the hottest new style from across the border and, in the ultimate rejection of “form follows function,” walking is purely secondary for the wearers.
When I first saw pictures of the new craze of pointy boots in Mexico, it was April Fool’s Day and I thought it was an obviously hoax. It appears that it is not.
Accounts attribute the start of the craze to Matehuala, Mexico and a mysterious man known only as “Cesar of Huizache.” The man showed shoemaker Dario Calderon a picture of pointy boots and asked him to make him a pair. Soon, the style took off. You can buy the extenders for your boots made with plastic foam for 400 pesos ($34).
The boots also have triggered a new dance and even professional troupes like Los Parranderos, or The Partiers.
Now that Florida has banned baggy pants for school kids, Mexican pointy boots are the last fashion statement standing.
http://youtu.be/SRvL11JdNBE It’s been done before.
“You’ll put your eye out!!!” -HenMan
🙂
The second “new craze” coming from Mexico is falling on your face and suing the pointy-headed manufacturer of your pointy-toed boots.
“You’ll put your eye out!!!”
They are shockingly mediocre dancers.
Lol – makes driving so easy
More Footwear:
I hear that a mans shoe is an indicator of other measurements,if so I would imagine people would be running from the guy that invented that 7fter.
Thanks for the link, AY. (We’ll aggressively fight any war but the drug war, it seems — in spite of all the talk… There’s big money in mayhem…)
On a lighter note, I have a pair on order — in white… — not that nurses wear white anymore, but no matter…
Well metro…..I suppose they could tickle it at the same time….
It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “I’m gonna stick my foot up your ass”
Off Topic but relevant…..
Private Armored Cars Are New Weapon Against Mexican Violence
North of the border, one such company, International Armoring Corporation, in Utah, is making a mint retrofitting vehicles with super-strong materials and selling them in Mexico. The Mexican market is typically growing at about 40 percent per year due to the increase in the violence.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41192121/Private_Armored_Cars_Are_New_Weapon_Against_Mexican_Violence
And ….the point is….
Compensatory footwear?
The Shoe Event Horizon is now a firmly established and rather sad economic phenomenon which, in future times will be taught as part of the basic Middle School Life, the Universe, and Everything syllabus. …
TEACHER: Stand up! Harsh Economic Truths, Class 17. You are standing up?
STUDENT: Yes.
T: Good. You are living in an exciting, go-ahead civilization. Where are you looking?
S: Up.
T: What do you see?
S: The open sky, the stars, an infinite horizon.
T: Correct… You are living in a stagnant, declining civilization. Where are you looking?
S: Down.
T: What do you see?
S: My shoes.
T: Correct. What do you do to cheer yourself up?
S: I buy a new pair.
T: Correct! Now, imagine everyone does the same thing… everyone buys new shoes, what happens?
S: More shoes.
T: And?
S: More shoe shops.
T: Correct… and in order to support all these extra shoe shops, what happens?
S: Everyone must keep buying shoes.
T: And how is that arranged?
S: Manufacturers dictate more and more different fashions of and make shoes so badly that they either hurt the feet or fall apart.
T: So that?
S: Everyone has to buy more shoes.
T: Until?
S: Until… everyone gets fed-up with lousy, rotten shoes.
T: And then what?
S: Massive capital investment by the manufacturers to try and make people buy the shoes.
T: Which means?
S: More shoe shops.
T: And then we reach what point?
S: The Shoe Event Horizon! The whole economy overbalances. Shoe shops outnumber every other kind of shop. It becomes economically impossible to build anything other than shoe shops.
T: Now, what’s the final stage?
S: Um… every shop in the world becomes a shoe shop.
T: Full of?
S: Shoes no one can wear.
T: Result?
S: Famine, collapse, and ruin. Any survivors eventually evolve into birds and never put their feet on the ground again.
T: Excellent! End of lesson.
For those not educated in H2G2
The shoe shop intensifier ray was deployed by the Dolmansaxlil Corporation in order to keep the populace buying more and more poorly made and ill-fitting shoes. Eventually, the “shoe event horizon” was reached, whereby all of the shops on the planet were shoe shops that made impossible-to-wear shoes. The result was economic collapse, ruin, and famine – the survivors evolved into birds and vowed never to walk on the ground again.
The guide later reveals that the shoe shop intensifier ray “is, in actuality, a phony, designed to make Dolmansaxlil executives feel they are doing something excitingly aggressive, when in fact all they need to do is wait”.
Another fine product from the Dolmansaxlil (dull man saxlil) Shoe Company!
I just read the story of Cesar this week, and while I rarely know the cutting edge of fashion from the cutting sting of sarcasm, I do know that the aforementioned article indicated the pointy-toed boot craze current status was “played.” So if you’re feeling the need to run out and buy them, you might have missed the boot, ;-/))