Published by Swiss James on 02 Dec 2008 at 01:09 pm
Shoe Tuesday- re: Boots
Welcome back to the regular feature we both love, and are a little creeped out by- Shoe Tuesday.
I didn’t really realise there was such a thing as boot season before T pointed it out last week, but a boot season there is, and in it we are.
So many boots have I seen, that I can draw up a Comprehensive list of the
Top Three Boots Trends In Shanghai This Boot Season
Trend 1: Boots with tassles
Personally, I don’t like them. Tassled boots look like an Old English Sheepdog is humping your leg.
Still though, every now and then girls weirdly decide that something looks good and no amount of looking in the mirror will convince them otherwise. Expect to spend most of Summer 2010 laughing at photos of yourself wearing these horrors.
Trend #B – Prints On Boots
I don’t know how these rocket scientists do it, but somehow NASA are managing to decorate boots with all kinds of colourful stuff this season.
It can’t be long now until we start seeing boots with prints of sandals on them.
After which there remains nothing to do except sit at home to await the apocalypse.
Zebras: YES!
Trend III- gay Hell’s Angel
Until that glorious time when two-tone brogue (wingtip) boots become widely available, men’s fashion is stuck firmly to the old tried and tested formula:
Shoe Rules
this young man was on his way to see the matinee of “Mamma Mia”
and this chap was on his way back
Thanks Dingle
I don’t enjoy male boot season. I enjoy female boots + skirts. It’s just my ting.
Wooo…I wonder there is matching leopard print undies with the leopard shoes! tee hee…
A really horrible trend is when the ladies wear high boots that also have high heels and have them ‘over’ a pair of jeans. It has the effect of making the wearers legs look like tiny stumps compared to the rest of the body. And it reminds me of 80’s cowboy boots over jeans, that is in the high street and not on the ranch.
There’s only one other eye-raping fashion worse in this area –
half mastsclam picker trousers.The girl in photo 2 looks like she has a nice pair of gams. Is there a “click to see more” button?
I’m glad you brought some science to this most difficult of arts.
T- you’d be glad you didn’t say photo 4 if I did show more, she is but a girl.
Sadly not anyway- unless by more you mean “More of that shopping trolley on the left”
Miss Jane- we’re going to have to ask Dingle about that
Andy Best- I’ve seen a girl do that with Uggs and it actually looked dead good! Not sure about heels- I shall keep them peeled
Nam- you can expect to see my full findings published in Nature forthwith.
I’m okay with some boots, just not over jeans.
When I was in Japan my boss was so obsessed with girls in Atsuzoko boots that he very publicly tried to get every girl he hooked up with to have sex with him wearing the boots (and nothing else). When I say publicly I mean he let everyone know this, not that he tried to do it in public.
They never really caught on in other countries eh?
I’m going to buy the shoes in pic 2. Have been wanting those for a long time!
Maybe Dingle will have a special PJ Wednesday feature to show his shoes and other fashion attires in his blog world.
Those print boots are minging, when are moon boots coming back?
Miss Jane, this was in Japan, he could have been wearing anything and it wouldn’t have surprised me, I only got photos of his shoes though, unfortunately for you and fortunately for me. Hmm, you’ve got the wrong idea about my blog as well, I don’t post about nonsense like fashion, I leave that to the metros like James and Woai, my blog is more about hard-hitting gritty real life issues innit.
Hey Dingle, you don’t have to be fashion-shy. It’s A-o-K to adore or hate fashion. We were all fashion victims at one point. I know you weren’t trying to make point on purpose, but it’s just good to see variety in blogs. It’s James’ fault that I stumbled across Woai’s site and now it’s Woai’s fault that I am reading your blog. But honestly, it’s really good to read about different perspectives of living in a metro city in China which i am still not brave enough to do. So keep up the hard-hitting gritty work! ;-)
I might consider a science Sunday, that would be a lot of fun.
Like what is the science of sleeping? Chicks digs science. Or what was that line in Nacho Libre? Esqueleto: I don’t believe in God, I believe in science.
No, I was thinking proper science, like ‘what happens if I eat three tins of baked beans and lots of eggs?’ or ‘can burnt toast be used as scouring pads?’, that kind of thing
That’s not Science my friend, that’s just plain common sense!
Q: what happens if I eat three tins of baked beans and lots of eggs?
A: runny farts?
Q: ‘can burnt toast be used as scouring pads?”
A: Yes but they are better as facial exfloiants. Especially for newly shaven ex-pornstars featured on the front page of the Guardian.
Are you newly shaven? That would be a shame.
I saw a girl brought a scupper by her ugg boot the other day. She was crossing a busy street at the lights by Victoria station and mid-stride her ugg decided enough was enough, came half off and tripped her right up, causing her to spill her large suitcase on wheels all over the shop.
I wanted to feel sorry for her, but as she tried to get up, her leg looking like Eduardo’s when he had it snapped in two, trying to use her fallen wheelie case as support and she just kept on falling down, again and again, i couldn’t help but join the driver of the bus waiting, not even concerned the lights had long since changed, in pissing myself.
Just thought i’d share that.
Since when do chicks dig science? I missed that memo.