介绍： Why Some People Are Allergic to ‘Peanut Butter Raises’
For some people shoes are an afterthought. The more inconspicuous the better. For others, they take centre stage – the main character of an outfit.
There are the shoes that laugh in the face of elegance or "good taste" to offer something unexpected, bi...

介绍： Why Some People Are Allergic to ‘Peanut Butter Raises’
For some people shoes are an afterthought. The more inconspicuous the better. For others, they take centre stage – the main character of an outfit.
There are the shoes that laugh in the face of elegance or "good taste" to offer something unexpected, bizarre or outright daft. Think Crocs or those five-toed shoes; or the iconic frog wellington boots.
And among other things, mutation and cross-breeding are "in". There is the so-called "Frankenshoe", a hybrid of shoe silhouettes mashed into one. 
Then there's also the snoafer (the sneaker and loafer), which The Wall Street Journal coined "the footwear equivalent of the spork". It doesn't stop there: there's also the sock-boot and the clogtrainer
But perhaps the most hyperbolic of all ugly shoes, tellingly designed by an art collective more for the sake of generating memes than protecting metatarsals, is the MSCHF big red boot, worn by many street stylers after they were launched in 2023.
Some of these strange shoes are as much stunt as shoe. As J'Nae Phillips, creator of the Fashion Tingz newsletter, tells the BBC: "people increasingly enjoy fashion items that provoke reactions, become conversational objects, or function almost like visual memes". 
Why are fashion-lovers so intent on breaking out of the shoe-box? According to Phillips, these oddities signal something that the fashion literate like to communicate: "a deliberately awkward, hybrid or unexpected shoe can break the stiffness of an outfit and make someone look more self-aware, more culturally fluent, and less overly polished."