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Everyone has heard TV detectives discussing shoe prints as identifiers, and vaguely wondered what their own shoes are pressing into the earth. Would your soles give you away if you were a criminal, or are your soles bland enough to go unnoticed?
Here are the soles with coolest prints on Earth, and the sometimes-ugly shoes that happen to be attached to them.
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BRAND: Vibram Five Finger Shoes by Jaya
SOLE: Finger Toes
Toe shoes have been a craze for years with health experts and those obsessed with posture. They’ve proven their value for people who run a lot, as they train the foot to balance itself rather than swaddling it in myriad layers of comfort.
These shoes have an added benefit: they often leave neat prints in the dirt. If you’ve been hiking since 2009, then you have probably wondered about the barefoot hiker, not knowing someone had been wearing these kicks.
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SOLE: Puppy Paw
While the puppy paw of this pump doesn’t leave a realistic paw mark, it does leave people something to ponder. The cute style definitely makes a statement, but the sole itself tells observers that the wearer is bold and daring.
Though these soles are meant to look like puppy paws, they do have a Tim Burton-esquefeel, due to the mismatched paw sizes. If you saw these impressions on the sidewalk, you might think you were in the movie Beetlejuice.
5.
BRAND: Merrell for Japan
SOLE: Ukiyo-E Painting Prints
Stylized specifically for the Japanese buyer, these Merrell flats have impressionistic soles of the Ukiyo-E collection of prints. Wildly popular abroad, many blogs have questioned their limited,strictly-international availability.
As you can see by comparing the original print to the shoe sole, there is a striking resemblance that charms Ukiyo-E fans. The art lovers who wear these nifty flats get to see the print re-printed with each wet shoe mark they leave on the sidewalks of Japan.
4.
BRAND: Ferocious Footwear by Bob Bassett
SOLE: Giant Cat Paw
A shoe that few people would choose to wear, the giant cat paw by Ferocious Footwear more closely resembles the paws of Satan from the movie Legend than the paws of a kitten.
While Goths and Halloween costume-wearers may love these fierce Satan-spawn-like shoes, it’s hard to imagine real people wearing them, in spite of their interesting soles.
3.
BRAND: Dr. Scholls & Starstyling for Threaded Footwear
SOLE: Horseshoe
Clearly a shoe meant to mock the runway, the horseshoe heel is outrageously overstated. Starstyling and Dr. Scholls created an entire line to mock runway fashion, but these horsey-heels are the most interesting. Leaving a giant smiley face with each step, the heel clicks like a horse step would, too.
Ladies wearing the horsey heel have been photographed with horsetail-ponytails and riding crops;yet, there are other women chose to wear their ponytails on their outrageous shoes.
2.
BRAND: Outliers by Maskull Lasserre
SOLE: Human Foot
These shoes could conceal your identity at the scene of a crime (leaving a too-large foot impression, so the cops would never suspect you), or they could just inspire conversation at parties.
Designer and artist MaskullLasserre has an entire line of shoes, all leaving impressions of zoo animals and wildlife. If you followed his posse through the snow, you might imagine a stampede had occurred in downtown New York City.
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BRAND: Outliers by Maskull Lasserre
SOLE:Kodiak Track
What could be cooler than freaking out your friends and neighbors by leaving the footprints of scary, wild animals in the snow? These shoes open the door to countless pranks, as well as a few added inches of height.
Ranked the coolest sole on this countdown, the Kodiak impression is one you won’t forget soon. Try wearing these shoes on a camping trip, outside the gates of a zoo, or on Halloween night.
CONCLUSION:
If you want to be the topic of conversation, then wearing one of these pairs of shoes is your answer. From scary animals to Satan-spawn, barefooted criminals to trotting runway models, shoe soles now speak volumes about the wearer.
Unless you’re a criminal hoping to avoid scrutiny in forensics labs, wearing these soles is a great idea to up your fashion ante, or show off your taste in Japanese art.
SOURCES:
- http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/strange-footwear
- http://maskulllasserre.com/section/296524_Outliers.html
- http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.walkerplus.com%2F2010%2F1005%2F12%2F
- http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/07/ukiyo-e-shoes/
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