Mexico town’s mutant pointy boots create a craze
Here’s a story from the Associated Press about a bizarre trend in the Mexican city of Matehuala: cowboy boots with long, curved, pointed toes.
The next thing Calderon knew, it seemed like everyone wanted the bizarre, half-Aladdin, all-Vegas pointy boots, from little boys attending church ceremonies to teenagers at the discos.
Calderon fashioned the elongated toes from plastic foam and charged 400 pesos ($34) for the extensions. The competition began charging 350 pesos ($30) per 15 centimeters (6 inches) of new toe.
Boys who couldn’t afford that used garden hoses to make their own. When one added glittery butterflies, another made 5-foot-long toes and added multicolor glitter stripes. When one added stars to the tips, others added flashing lights and disco balls, strutting them on the dance floor to attract the girls, like peacocks spreading their feathers.
It even has an apocryphal origin story, featuring a mysterious man known only as “Cesar of Huizache.”
Make sure to click through to the story; the AP also published thirteen photos of these silly people and their silly shoes.