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Similarly, the pointy shoes still live on in Mexico and Southern USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_pointy_boots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_p
by pitzips 7y ago
Similarly, the pointy shoes still live on in Mexico and Southern USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_pointy_boots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_pointy_boots
- jacobush 7y agoI didn't know there was a connection! I wonder if the US highway shields also somehow kept an "older" design language while in Europe things "progressed" more easily to more modernist forms.
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- pseudolus 7y agoThe story mentions modern day successors in the form of winklepickers which were apparently a highlight of 1950's/1960's fashion [0][1]. I'm predicting a resurgence in the early 2020's until the TSA declares them a menace to airport security at which point they fall out of favour again until the early 2050's. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winklepicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winklepicker [1] https://gucinari.co.uk/shoes/boots/the-history-of-winklepickers/ https://gucinari.co.uk/shoes/boots/the-history-of-winklepick...
- k__ 7y agoIn the post punk/cold wave scene they are very popular.
- Jill_the_Pill 7y agoI had read the term "winklepicker" a few times in the past, with no photo or description, and just assumed it was the snappy British equivalent of the American "clamdigger" -- a sort of short pants you'd wear collecting mollusks. A classic example of "what you know that just ain't so."
- nyolfen 7y agomy girlfriend got a pair of these at the thrift store (texas)
- dickeytk 7y agoBetter example of how crazy they get: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veQkt4tS0Tc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veQkt4tS0Tc
- kurthr 7y agoI was expecting this to show up... there's an original video, but thanks for finding this one!
- aristophenes 7y agoA highly upvoted comment from that video: "as a mexican I gotta say these mexicans don't represent all the mexicans"