Crazy For Feet Forum

Just look at all the trends over the past 5 years those dreaded boots, toms, those mocassins and the women who were flats never wear hose etc. So are these fasion designers just ANTI hosed loving dippers/dangling or what?Maybe some of them has had a bad experience with one one of us and said well Ill fix them.Ill create shoes that they cant enjoy

I think fashion designers are not particularly against us nylon/shoeplay lovers. I think they are just going on a less feminine look in the past couple of years (or maybe a decade). I have no idea why is that (actually I have a conspiracy theory but doesn't have time to write about it). There are however real ladies who are still not brainwashed by this fashiondesigner bullsh.. and they dare to wear a nice dress or a cosutme with pumps, flats, sandals combine with nylons. Yes, it's not that bad in central part of Europe, at least not that bad in the cities. In smaller towns and rural areas, now the chicks and also the middle aged women think, it is "IN" not to wear nylons. Boooooohhhhh!

I doubt very seriously that even a single major fashion designer even knows what shoeplay is (or that there is a word for it), and the idea that they might modify their designs to thwart us is frankly (if you're serious and not just tossing idea around for fun) getting really close to tinfoil hat territory.

It's just females don't wanna be females anymore, they prefer relax clothes-shoes, designers give them what they want.

The problem with fashion in general is the philosophy of Coco Chanel according to which "the fashion must change all the time so that we can sell more". As a result of that the fashion industry is not interested in elegance, beauty and feminity like in 40's, 50's and 60's but they promote all kinds of crazy styles so that they can sell more. So we see extremely frequently that the trends change and do cycles: we see periods when feminity is the trend but we can also see periods that various awful styles prevail (like punk, hippie, grunge, gypsy, androgenous etc). It's the philosophy of constant change just for the sake of it so that women renew their wardrobe every now and then. We can't ignore the fact that every generation wants to look different from the previous but this fact doesn't justify the fact that women change their clothes every year.
When it comes to shoes I noticed that the trends have a specific pattern: one decade the shoes are pretty and feminine and the next decade they are ugly and muscular. In the 70's the shoes were ridiculous and ugly, in the 80's they were pretty, in the 90's they were dreadful and muscular, in the 00's they were feminine and I'm afraid that in the 10's it's time to become ugly again. Unfortunately it seems that women bin pumps and ballerinas for ugly shoes like they did in the 90's.
This is the trend for woman shoes this winter in Europe:




Women wear these shoes even with skirts and dresses so pumps and ballerinas are heading to extinction. If you add the ugg boots and all the other types of boots then it's going to be an awful winter for shoeplay lovers. The last three winters were disappointing in Greece and it looks like things will go as bad as in the 90's!

All can say is Greece differs from California as much in sartorial matters as it does pretty much everything else. I don't see any of the footware in those photos, and I remember the nineties as a golden age. (I was a kid so it's partly nostalgia but there were definitely far more hose, and in far more shades.)

Here it was the early 2000's that was the severest drought. It was all various kinds of sandals; closed-toe dippable shoes and any kind of tights or hose pretty much disappeared from about 1999-2004.
Those shoes in that photo by the way look very much like those fashionable in the 1940's. A reminder that fashion is just that -a fashion; and it's often cyclical.

There may be dismal times ahead in the short run, but I think Western fashion has actually pretty much stabilized. For instance the basic business suit really hasn't changed much in over 100 years. (By contrast compare gentleman's attire in 1750 vs 1850.)

Here in Denver, I see a lot of those small ankle type boots among the 23-35 crowd...once you get older than that, its still mostly heels and because of the colder weather here, its a lot of tights. It is all cyclical and just about 4-5 years ago, everyone was wearing heels, not its boots...but damn I wish the flats would go away, they do nothing for me.