Let’s face it, Chinese women aren’t known for their fabulous taste in shoes. Walking around the city– even climbing mountains– I am absolutely astonished by the plastic contraptions they call shoes and slip on their feet. These ugly shoes have all of the feminine elements– bows, color, sparkles– but somehow don’t add up to anything remotely elegant. Older women are mostly the epicenter of these cobbler catastrophes, which makes me wonder if remnants of the foot-binding horror of their ancestors still linger in their minds. Now the tradition has morphed into a new way to torture their toes: tackiness.
I’m being way too harsh (I’m currently sipping my first cup of my morning coffee). My hypothesis is hodgepodge.
But what caught my eye with these two ladies (besides the mammoth fur vest), was their shoes. I still can’t decide if I dig them, but I noticed a directional turn away from the feminine shoe to something…different…even combative (girl on the left). What do you think, would you wear them?
I wanted to like em because the pants are great and she looks like she could be kind of cute…
But that vest and the over-sized gold buckles are gaudy in the wrong, wrong way
They are holding onto one another for dear life – so they don’t fall!I wouldn’t personally wear those shoes but I do like how the gold shoes match the girl’s hair.
Spot on!