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Similarly, the pointy shoes still live on in Mexico and Southern USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_pointy_boots

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The 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

[1] https://gucinari.co.uk/shoes/boots/the-history-of-winklepick...

In the post punk/cold wave scene they are very popular.

I 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."

Better example of how crazy they get: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veQkt4tS0Tc

I was expecting this to show up... there's an original video, but thanks for finding this one!

A highly upvoted comment from that video: "as a mexican I gotta say these mexicans don't represent all the mexicans"

I 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.

my girlfriend got a pair of these at the thrift store (texas)

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