Marc Jacobs purple suede thigh high boots
Well, it looks like Marc Jacobs is determined to add the strange, turned-up toe to EVERYTHING this season.
Why, Marc? Why? Why must you lace your regular moments of genius with a large dollop of “ridiculous”. You see, I’d love these boost if it wasn’t for that toe. I love the colour. I love the fact that they’re suede, which always seems like a more wearable option than leather when it comes to thigh highs. I love the height, and the fact that they have a wide, Puss-in-Boots style top, rather than one that hugs the leg. And actually, I don’t really hate the toes – or not as much as I did when I first laid eyes on them, anyway. But the thing is, if I owned these, I just know that every time I looked at them I’d think, “If only they didn’t have those turned-up toes on them”, and if I was paying £1,260 for a pair of boots, they’d have to be pretty damn perfect.
These boots generated a bit of controversy when Peter Jensen sent them down the runway earlier this year. They’re based on traditional Greenlandic boots, and apparently some people took huge offense at the sight of them on the runway: there was a protest held in Greenland itself, and Jensen even received death threats over them, despite insisting that no offense had been intended. (His aunt lived in Greenland during the 60s, and Jensen said the boots were a tribute to some of the styles he’d seen there.)
What does everyone think of these boots? I’ve never been a friend of fringe particularly: I wouldn’t go so far as to say I hate it – it can look great on some people and some things - but it’s just not something that’s ever really appealed to me, so when I saw these fringe-backed thigh high boots by Gian Lorenzi, my first instinct was to grab a pair of scissors and give them a bit of a haircut.
