The wonderful Times photographer Bill Cunningham has returned from Paris with an unbelievable slideshow of the world's worst thing: the over-the-knee skank boot. WATCH IN HORROR. And amusement. These boots really are disgusting!
Monday, October 26, 2009
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I am loathe to self-link; but the world must know that these atrocities are now invading MY world:
http://abesauer.com/2009/10/19/mary-hk-chois-skank-boots-bleeding-into-my-football/
My old boss used to wear those kind of boots to work. I work at a school. She no longer works here.
[Meant to reply to whole post.]
With a re-link back to The Awl. You sure know how to bring the pageviews.
Yes. I'll tell Alex to be on the look-out for the 17 people in my family who read that site.
They're ideal for fly fishing in the River Styx.
That was down right Dennismillerian UhOh, kudos.
These boots are going to be around so we should just go ahead and except it, if only we could have caught fashionista Zero before she infected Paris and New York. I gotta say that the "boot pants" were hot in a I'm a teenage boy into superheroes sorta way, but the man in me found them frustratingly sexy.
Damn you KUO, why do you always gotta be so clever and funny?
*clap *clap *clap
My favorite was the boot/pants combo. How does one go to the bathroom?
I preferred the pony manes, myself. I wonder which are higher maintenance?
I think if you wear those, you are required to walk down the street accompanied by "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves".
The song? Or...
They're like footie pajamas for grown ups!
(Okay, grown-up skanks.)
I hope that means they have a butt flap with buttons!
One mustn't miss out on the Australia contribution to this wonderful trend.
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/0/3987/51_2007/lovea2000112867_prod_zoom_front.preview.jpg
Those are perfect for delivering Christmas presents.
Or shooting wolves from planes.
HOLY BALLS are those heinous.
The knee flap looks as if it's there to suffocate said kneecaps.
Good Gawd those are EVIL. Heinous in a way that makes regular Uggs look almost acceptable...
That's a photo of the Yeti after the helicopter came in too low for a photo op.
I think the bows are darling.
the you-spend-a-lot-of-time-on-your-knees-so-why-not-be-cozy knee guards are a thoughtful christmasy touch.
Yet another reason I would fail as a European - my calves would never fit into these contraptions, genetically muscular freaks of nature that they are.
Is there anyone in France who doesn't look fashionable at all times?
Um, that woman.
Oh right. I'm supposed to hate the boots.
DIE SKANK BOOTS*!
*But not before you come up with a style to fit my monster calves.
I do think the woman in the banner pic is kinda workin' it, though. Great gams for a dame in her 50s.
At exactly what age does a woman become a "dame?"
From Wikipedia,
Dame meaning "lady"; entered Middle English from Latin domina, mistress, via French dame (pronounced: [dam]).
and why NOT throw in a little jocular sexism while we discuss women's choices in footwear? :)
Yeah, except above the boots she appears to be wearing those little rubber pants I used to wear in ballet rehearsal to warm up my hips - $30 from Capezio. Maybe that's all she could afford after shelling out for the boots?
Oh please no. I thought she's got one some sort of tights/leggings, and then a vaguely satin-y tunic that's gathered at the bottom? If what I thought was a tunic is actually shiny shorts, we're going to have a problem.
They could very well be shiny shorts - Hollywood has been wearing rompers for months and designers think we want tiny shorts too. Check out the Go Fug Yourself archive for photo evidence of the horror.
The ad for the Muscular Dystrophy Association with the kid in the wheelchair is a nice intro. Sets the tone.
How is one supposed to put distance between oneself and the shambling horde of brain-eating French zombies chasing one around the Place de la Concorde while wearing these boots?
Unless CDC comes up with a vaccine, the skank boot will hit NYC with a vengeance.
At 2:18: What up with the backwards jacket? (Really, what up? Not "Oh, how dumb.")
The real indicator that these boots are heinous is that my beloved Bill Cunningham sounds like Andy Rooney on 'ludes.
Also, here is the origin of the phrase
"fill your boots"
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question72214.html
Think about that, boots-as-pants lady.
When they leave the realm of footwear and necessitate the label "leg covering," I'm not sure how to feel about boots anymore.
I'm more concerned by the fact that the Paris Police Department is being sponsored by Pepsi.
What, Orangina couldn't offer a good enough deal?
Is no one else concerned that woman's legs are being consumed by two pythons!?
how about "bemused"?
Carpetblogger has already ran the skank boot beat into the ground. Kyiv and Moscow are, and have always been, waaaay far ahead of the west when it comes to fashionable footware.
http://carpetblog.typepad.com/carpetblogger/2007/09/its-september-i.html
I saw a woman leave Tao on 58th wearing those boots and a purple miniskirt. Despite a relatively sheltered life, I had thought that, unlike Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited, I could with some certainty recognise a prostitute in the streets, but I realize now the depth of my ignorance.
this is so palin
"Zut alors et puis merde! Mes bottes sont en train de manger mes jambes!"
Some thigh high boots happen to be extremely beautiful. Why are generalizing?: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/item/979/719/37/abMdwDom7ftaoGu.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ioffer.com/search/items/suede%2520boot&h=480&w=359&sz=33&tbnid=R5cKSiIpSyYl0M:&tbnh=129&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsuede%2Bthigh%2Bhigh%2Bboots&hl=en&usg=__i5HQPC8LpWXxuMFy-XF9ZkEdIMM=&ei=NN7lSua9OZSolAeY88DoCg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=11&ct=image&ved=0CDUQ9QEwCg
Generalizing is more fun.
Many of these boots are not beautiful, and all of the thigh-highs look like streetwalker specials.
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly.
Check out those defiant "I can wear it too" women.
No bitch, you can't.
These boots are too big to fail.