Get Your Party Shoes On: Top 10 Ugliest Pairs on Taobao
Taobao isn’t just an online shopping site, it's also a great platform for entertaining yourself during those boring hours in the office. Amongst its myriad pages find the weirdest, funniest and plain ugliest stuff on the internet simply by typing in some key words. Our City Weekend crew has been invited to an ugly-shoe themed party this weekend, so each of us picked one pair from the list below. If you are also one of the secret sms party invitation recipients, make sure you get a pair of your own and we’ll see you there!
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No. 10:Union Jack Running Shoes
Running shoes are known for their practicality, not their fashionable design, but these amazing “Deerway” shoes completely and totally changed our attitude of life and everything. They were designed for the 2010 South African world cup, and its a wonder the Chinese national team didn’t wear them…
No. 9: Shinny Leather Dress Shoes
I think Ricky Martin wore these when he came out to the public.
No. 8: Japanese Wedge Booties
If you a fan of the “medieval Scottish glamour rock look”, make sure you get your feet in a pair of these fashionable Japanese wedge booties.
No. 7: Fake LV Dog Boots
Is there anything in the world worse than dressing your dog? Yes, dressing it in these hideous knock-off Louis Vitton dog boots.
No. 6: Wedge Knee Length Boots
These boots are made for a very specific market of customers: Retired dominatrixes who have wide toes and flat sole problems. Add blind to that as well.
No. 5: Clawed Crocs
Hello Kitty crocs with claws, anyone?
No. 4: Fluffy Heels
I don’t get it, this world is turning mad. Are these supposed to be sexy??
No. 3: Plastic Rain Boots
Plum rain season is coming soon, but I would rather have my face soaked in muddy water than wear these things in public.
No. 2: Leopard Print Sneakers
These lady’s sneakers combine all the trendiest elements of 2011, from leopard print and rhinestones to wedge booties and pastel colors. They even have a hidden insole to make you look taller. They are only RMB198, what a bargain!
No. 1: LOCO Sneakers
They are LOCO and they are made in your head. They protect you from nuclear radiation, earthquakes, tsunamis and the coming apocalypse of 2012. Now get on your keens and kiss the holly red lips print on the most magnificent shoes of the year.
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Brilliant collection. Now I want to have an ugly shoe party. I think zammo would look brilliant in the white wedge boots. What do you think Mengsta?
Claire: I think Zammo will look totally hot in the fluffy pick heels, those white wedge boots suit Ng better.
Albinomonkey: I sincerely apologize for my prejudices. I'm getting a pair of Loco to the party, please drop by if you like. Take the chicken lady too.
I own a pair of fluffy pink heels, as you know Meng-face. And I look crapulescent in them. I look spak-tastic in everything I wear.
The pink fluffy shoes ARE sexy! I want a pair! Last weekend, I saw a guy wearing these weird black shoes with separated toes, so it looked like he was barefoot and a gorilla or something, or barefoot with a horrible case of gangrene. Very disturbing.
@Zammo
I am personally DEVASTATED that you weren't wearing your pink fluffy heels last November.
I can promise you, you would have gotten VERY LUCKY ;)
these are not even the ugliest, and a lot of people still buy those things, if they ever read this article, i bet they won't feel so happy. Your comments are all sarcastic but don't point out a reason why you call those shoes ugly.
Yes, the sarcasm confuses me as well, possibly because I am a monkey with a congenital disorder. You say they are ugly, but never expound on what you mean by it. Are we talking 'beautiful ugly', like a Picasso painting? Or 'funny ugly', like a dwarf in a clown wig? My simian girlfriend is what I like to call 'butt ugly', I suspect because she is half baboon. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want to fling poo at someone.
Hey now, I own a pair of Loco sneakers and I don't appreciate you calling them ugly. I happen to get lots of compliments on them when I am out and about. Why, just the other day I got a big thumbs up from the lady who cuts off chicken heads in the wet market.
Be mindful of your prejudices. Much like my shoes, they are 'made in your head'.