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[jimmy olsen]

You should be ASHAMED! 

Click here for the ridiculous photos
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1387604/How-Mexican-men-embraced-bizarre-trend-pointed-footwear.html#ixzz1MYSvh2Ly

The jester-style boots that are no laughing matter: How Mexican men have embraced bizarre trend for pointed footwear

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:01 PM on 16th May 2011

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We last saw them on court jesters in Medieval England, but pointy-toed boots, it seems are making a major comeback in Mexico.

Young men have developed an obsession with the bold footwear, with toes so long, they are curled up in a giant spiral.

Cobblers in the farming town of Matehuala in northeastern Mexico, described how it was a single mystery customer that sparked the trend.

Now shoppers are competing for ever more outlandish variations.

Shoemaker Dario Calderon described a client known only as 'Cesar of Huizache', who showed him a cellphone picture of a sequinned cowboy boot with pointy toes so long, they curled up toward the knees. He wanted a pair, but with longer toes.

Mr Calderon, who is more used to making cowboy boots, said: 'I thought, "What's up with this dude?"'

He explained how the boot in the photo measured 60 centimetres (23 inches) 'but we made him a pair that were 90 centimetres (35 inches) long.'

The next thing Mr Calderon knew, everyone wanted the bizarre pointy boots, from young boys attending church ceremonies to teenagers for nights out at the local disco.

He fashions the elongated toes from plastic foam and charges 400 pesos ($34) for the extensions.

Young men who can't afford a bespoke pair have been using garden hoses to make their own, decorating them with glittery butterflies, stars, flashing lights and disco balls.

The trend has coincided with a new craze for 'tribal' dance, which sees male troupes dressed in matching western shirts and skinny jeans to set off their shoes.

They dance to a mixture of pre-Columbian and African sounds mixed with fast cumbia bass and electro-house beats.

In Matehuala, all-male teams compete in weekly dance-offs at nightclubs for prizes of $100 to $500.

Miguel Hernandez, 20, of Los Parranderos, who regularly participates in these dance nights, said: 'At the beginning there were people who would criticise us and would say, "How tacky that you are wearing that. I wouldn't wear them." But we feel good dancing with the pointy boots.'

Jorge Chavez, 16, whose dances with the group, Los Aliados, added that dancing tribal in pointy boots is 'like going crazy.

'We dance it as if we were chasing chickens. It's all about goofing off.'

But dancing in such outlandish footwear is no mean feat.

Francisco Garcia, 18, of the Los Primos dance crew, revealed: 'There are some steps where you have to cross your feet and throw yourself to the ground and you can't do that with the pointy boots.'

For others, though, it's worth the effort, as the unlikely trend is become something of a babe-magnet according to one young fan.

University student Pascual Escobedo, 20, said: 'At the beginning I didn't like them very much, but the girls wouldn't dance with you if you weren't wearing pointy boots.'

Housewife Laura Soto, 36, added: 'The boots makes them look more sexy because you can tell they are daring.'

[Eddie Teach]

I always said he looked like a fool, guess now he's dressing like one too.

[jimmy olsen]

I always said he looked like a fool

Since when? 

[Eddie Teach]

I always said he looked like a fool

Since when? 

Since it made a convenient rhetorical device.

[DontSayBanana]

Really, Tim?  Resorting to articles from the Daily Fail?  Slow news day much?

[jimmy olsen]

Really, Tim?  Resorting to articles from the Daily Fail?  Slow news day much?

There were plenty of other sources who had the same story, but the Mail had the best pictures. Given the visual nature of the story that was important. Morever, does the crass nature of the Mail really matter when it comes down to a story about ridiculous fashion?

[DontSayBanana]

There were plenty of other sources who had the same story, but the Mail had the best pictures. Given the visual nature of the story that was important. Morever, does the crass nature of the Mail really matter when it comes down to a story about ridiculous fashion?

Considering they can't even get TV gossip correct half the time (I picked up the nickname over at the GallifreyBase forums, where their tendency to get spoilers and story leaks massively wrong is a running gag)...

[Valmy]

I always said he looked like a fool

Since when? 

:facepalm:

[Ed Anger]

I always said he looked like a fool

Since when? 

:facepalm:

I going to start using stunned JoePa.

[jimmy olsen]

I always said he looked like a fool

Since when? 

:facepalm:

You guys take me way too serious.

Awesome picture by the way MB, do you know what he was looking at there?

[Barrister]

I always said he looked like a fool

Since when? 

:facepalm:

You guys take me way too serious.

Awesome picture by the way MB, do you know what he was looking at there?

Since he's looking directly into the camera...

[Ed Anger]

Like I'm going to look to see where those pics are from and do a recap. Lazy Tim can do his own research.

My rates are unaffordable.

[katmai]

Uh why am i named for what some Wetbacks are doing?

Do we paint a Beeb with same brush when those weirdo canadians do something?
Or Ed when Kentuckians are odd?

[Valmy]

Do we paint a Beeb with same brush when those weirdo canadians do something?
Or Ed when Kentuckians are odd?

NEVER!

[Malthus]

Uh why am i named for what some Wetbacks are doing?

Because the mere thought of you dancing around in those pointy boots is hilariously funny?