This season's shoe trends (quotes)

[Bootylicious]

Translated from a few ezines regarding the trend in women's footwear for winter 2007/2008 to show everything is possible these days (if you're not a men of course). Art. 1: If the shoe fits, wear it... This can be taken very literally this winter, whether our shoewear is for women or actually meant for men, everything is permitted. Male shoes will be very common this winter. Perfect for the masculine look. We wear the smooth steppers with dress pants or skinny jeans combined with a gilet. Even under a pair of capri pants they go very nicely with socks. And if you want to wear them under your dresses make sure you pick a pair with a very small heel to preserve the feminine silhouette. Which model you choose doesn't really matter, as long as it matches your outfit. Round or pointy toes, black, brown, burgundy, white, snake print or perforated, everything is permitted. Then it goes on saying that next to male shoes everything sexy, pointy, booted and high heeled is still a trend, even combined with tights and wollen sweaters for a tough but still feminine outfit. Art. 2: High heels, male shoes and 'eighties' boots... New for us females our traditional male shoes. And I mean ultra masculine with perforated decorations, laces and flat heels. Nevertheless, feminity is still the most important with even ultra high stiletto pumps and boots making a comeback. ... For men the ponderous models are out. Male shoes this winter are slender and flat with lots of details and a luxurious finish. The soles are very thin and the heels as flat as possible. Very daring are the elongated noses that point a little upwards for a cheaky, tough look. I'm not sure whether to feel sad or just laugh about it. The last option I guess...

[Marcus]

The last two years fashion trend is simply cr*ppy...

[Dr. Shoe]

Don't take too much notice. These people always talk fashion up without any kind of consideration what people actually WANT to wear.

[jmc]

Don't take too much notice. These people always talk fashion up without any kind of consideration what people actually WANT to wear.

Seems kind of backwards, doesn't it?

[Marion]

Let women wear men shoes... and let's wear women shoes !!!

[Histiletto]

Even though it seems that men's wear has not changed much in the last 100 years, shoe fashions for males has toggled in an out of what is considered women's wear. Most of the trends were often deleted before they had the chance to receive public notice. For an example, before the Beatles came into popularity in the United States, an advertisement depicting a male band wearing white dress shirts and ties, dark navy blue dress pants, white socks, and what is now referred to as ballet styled black pumps with heels measuring 5/8 inch (1.5cm) tall was put into a nationally limited circulation paper. Althought it didn't get rave reviews, I wonder if it didn't spark the idea that rock bands could wear anything they wanted, because this advertised band wore ballet pumps. Of course, the idea of males wearing pumps was not a totally new sight. A few years before this the world watched some male movie stars wearing pretty much the same style of footwear underneath their spats with their high society attire. The Funky Look of the Seventies saw men don the platformed high stylized block heeled oxfords and boots to "get on down" and "get it on". More males adapted this style of high heeled footwear into their public wardrobe then in most other given periods of history. As Dr. Shoe posted, the fashion industry doesn't represent everyone and furthermore doesn't care what most people want. They are in their own world to make lots of bucks off of any one who forks over their life's savings for the "in" thing, or the "to die for" stuff. Granted, these products are usually better quality then the mass produced stuff provided in large quantities to the general public, but the cost factor limits their repetitive clientele. Our public male heeling era has already started. We just got to get more of us into the public light to realize how accepted it has and will become.

[Bubba136]

For the most part, male foot wear has always been associated closely with the type of work they did. Boots for factory workers. Different style boots for cowbowys; more rugged footwear for farmers and low cut oxfords for office and retail shop workers. Ect., ect, ect. Women's shoes, on the other hand, are more closely associated with "dressing up." and preserving the femine image. Dainty, fashionable, soft and dressy shoes that make a woman's foot appear small and delicate; made from soft material and were more pleasing to the eye.