Cartoonish, IMO.

How does one walk stairs in the red ones????

Looks like there’s lots of room to wiggle ones toes in the black pair - assuming that toe box is open space inside. The red ones could do some damage to the person walking in front of the wearer. The bouffant dresses above the shoes look like they might be pretty ridiculous too!

The red ones … you’d have to walk like you had flippers on.

Lisa Rinna (former soap star and Real Housewives of some city) wore these shoes to the Marc Jacobs spring fashion show this week:

The Nordstrom site always has a wild selection of shoes.

Those are kinda fun! I think the shoes in OP are also MJ.

Some shoes are meant for walking and some are for going from the Uber into the restaurant.

Food, there’s video of her running in them, which really impressed me. I think I’d be on my face after two steps. :D

I grew up watching Lisa Rinna & Harry Hamlin. Her clothing store he remodeled for her....they were amazing.... "the lips". She blew me away on Dancing With The Stars. Her cabin in Canada is super cool. Her shoes...NOT so amazing. 😂

Entertaining, love to look at the outrageous styles.

A close friend calls the shoes that are best worn car to restaurant table "50 step heels". She has a collection, not for me, but they are gorgeous.

What you don't see a lot of video of from the Met Galas is some of the female attendees being literally carried up the stairs because they can't navigate them in their shoes, or because their dresses are so tight they can't bend their knees, or so heavy they are hard to get up steps. These videos do surface on social media.

I think these shoes are meant to be cartoonish, and they are both kind of suited to the dresses they are worn with. In any case these are shoes for the woman who has hundreds. The maroon ones have a lot in common with shoes worn during the Italian Renaissance, I think. The dress on the left might be amenable to "normal" shoes. the hobbled skirt on the right needs an odd shoe or at least something bulky.

My niece used to be able to do cheerleader C jumps in 3-4" heels. My mother wore 3"+ heels until her rheumatoid was so bad she could barely walk. Her mother wore heels daily until she retired and wore slippers with heels (she was about 4'10" at her full height). Her hamstrings were so tight that when she retired her heels did not touch the floor and she walked around on the balls of her feet. It took a while for her tendons to stretch out to get her heels back on the floor.

I came back to show hubby the shoes. That dress is wearing Lisa Rinna...she's tiny...

I'm clutching my pearls and showing my age here! These shoes and some of the attire that women wore during the Grammys makes me wonder why women would deliberately handicap themselves. The men looked more comfortable, dressed eg. in jeans and jean jacket (well, except for the castle on the head).

Those are just ugly, no getting around it. I wonder if the model was paid extra to wear those red ones? Wouldn’t you just havento clomp around? You surely can’t bend your foot naturally without tripping or just taking little baby steps.

Attention getting for sure.

Many years ago, I used to sell shoes, and one customer had a good term I've always remembered and used more than once since then: sittin' down shoes 😄

Dahlings, these are not shoes. For goodness sake, horses wear shoes. This is *fashion*.

some are for going from the Uber into the restaurant.

I could not get that far. I do have shoes under my desk, like most women in NYC. Those are to go from my office to a meeting... on the same floor. That is about as far as a I can go, and luckily my office is not all that far from the ladies' room. I wear heels most of the time, but for this purpose they can be higher and spikier. I also have a pair of tortoise pumps there.

Poulaine:

Chopine

7" heel bondage "ballet" shoe

Can foot binding for women be close at hand? (or foot?).

I seem to recall that Oprah had a "shoe wrangler" to put on her Louboutins for her to walk out on the set.

My BFF and I have talked about how we have one-hour shoes, two-hour shoes...

Can foot binding for women be close at hand? (or foot?).

Foot binding in the past was an elite signal of class and wealth. The woman could not walk well, and thus could not do most work, a bound foot signalled that she was of the class that did not need to work.

These days, with everything online, a woman could rule a country, manage a company, and become very wealthy regardless of feet, so bound feet would not signal the same sort of helpless wealth that might have enticed a suitor in the past. .In addition, many women, while enjoying companionship, may not be driven to entice suitors as a high priority. I think the ugly unwearable shoes have more to do with fashion, which is not the same (to me) as being attractive.

I kinda like the black ones.

Is there a physical reason a man would enjoy a partner with a tiny, egg-shaped foot? TMI?

Well from what I have read, because the feet were literally wrapped around each other when bound (the toes were folded under the sole of the foot like a hand making a fist) and they were bound up tightly, they were often chronically infected, or even if not the folds harbored anaerobic bacteria and they stunk when they were unwrapped, so I can't imagine that anyone enjoyed the physicality of it--but apparently some people fetishized it.

And they were not egg shaped they were pointed like Patrick the Starfish's head from Spongebob.

I wasn't exactly serious, but "fashion" that renders women helpless (to walk or run) does not send a great message.

I love most of Lisa See's novels, but when I purchased an audiobook where a mother praises her little girl when she hears bones in her bound feet breaking as she walks (very painfully), I couldn't bear hearing the rest of the story. See's novel The Island of Sea Women, on the other hand, showed women using their bodies and strength as they make a living as sea divers. Very different.

Men's shoes are not completely immune:

Grimentin "for weddings"

Balenciaga

Balenciaga ( know people who would have worn these when they were under 30 maybe.)

YSL (I know someone who might possibly wear something like this but they live in Manhattan)

Cross Sword. (These are just, odd)

Paris Fashion Week

I would gladly wear the Cross Sword shoes.

"I would gladly wear the Cross Sword shoes."

Me too! Especially if they were in RED.

Except they are rather odd as Men's shoes with the tall Cuban heel with lucite inset.

I met Lisa Rinna when I saw her husband, Harry Hamlin, at a comic book convention to get his autograph on a DVD I have of Jason and the Argonauts. I had gone to see him, but she also spoke to the audience - it was a small group, and so I had time to talk with Harry Hamlin while getting his autograph.

I wore some extreme platform shoes in the 1990s, and I still have some of them. Some of them were very interesting, but some also came apart after not wearing them many times, that they were very expensive. It is also difficult to drive wearing them.

I remember when the long toed shoes were popular in L.A. for men, but I never bought any.

I would also wear the Cross Sword shoes if they came in other colors, as the tan color is not something I wear. I do like Cuban heels and have some of those. I do not have any shoes with clear acrylic, but I've always wanted some. I saw a young woman at Walgreens yesterday with clear acrylic shoes, and they were 100% clear.

The white shoes at Paris Fashion Week look like shoes that my BIL wore, but his had exposed springs at the heel, and supposedly they were therapeutic.

:Here are some platform shoes I had in 1970:

I didn't like the colors, but I didn't have that many options at that time. These shoes had 3" heels and were suede. In 1972 I bought some purple suede platform shoes that I like much better and wore more often. They also had 3" heels.

"Except they are rather odd as Men's shoes with the tall Cuban heel with lucite inset."

Those are mens shoes?

I understood that those are men’s shoes, but if I could find a size that fit me (5.5) I’d wear them.

Yes those are all men's shoes including the cuban heeled oxfords. They appear to come for women (identical shoe) but down to a UK 7 (41) which is a men's 9-1/2. Much too large for me. They are $627 US.

There is more than a whiff of Hunger Games about all those shoes.

how ridiculous !