The title scared me until I saw the picture...*wipes sweat from brow*
If its got heels and it aint cowboy boots its just plain gay.
They were called “Beatle Boots”.
In my old rock and roll band days, we used to wear these things. We bought em cheap from NY shoe stores Flagg Bros (Yes FLAGG Bros, not FAG Bros, LOL). They were so poorly made and so uncomfortable for so long they hurt your feet for months if not forever. You could go lame wearing those “Beatle Boots”.
Now, I mostly loaf around in my loafers. No meatloaf for me.
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I remember Beatle boots. They’re not half bad if they’re a good fit. And they did look snazzy with some of the better men’s fashions of the time, such as polyester Nehru jackets and Star Trek sideburns.
And this was a great secret of men’s fashions that has been forgotten. Men wore fashions, and needed to wear fashions, because women’s fashions were fantastic.
Bright colors and contrasting colors, patterns and materials, miniskirts, elaborate and stylish footwear, serious hair styling, etc. Think of the “alien women of Star Trek”. Ordinary men’s clothing looked as drab next to it as dirty overalls.
And it was part of the whole Mod/Googie/Space Age/Atomic Age/Bachelor Pad/Populuxe art, architecture, interior and exterior design, technology and music. Which was stupendous, and only failed because much of the materials used weren’t durable enough, and the creativity petered out.
This turned into the rather cruddy 1970s styles, lost its futurism and idealism, like the flower children who turned into dirty, stinky Hippies, who then became Yuppies, and utilitarianism replaced style.
Pity, it was great while it lasted.
When we went to Russia in 2007 a lot of the younger men wore boots with such pointy toes that they almost curled up.
Everyone wore boots and some of the styles were so flamboyant that I did a page in my sketch book of just boots.