Humans are weird looking creatures, and the things we obsess over - the length of a fleshy bit here, the pertness of some fatty tissue there, those things are also weird. Then we compound the weirdness by dressing it up to emphasize certain bulges and crevasses while hiding or minimizing others. I mean look, I buy in as much as anyone, but still- weird.
In his autobiography, Frank Zappa talks about a guy he knew who had set out to develop all the muscles that aren’t commonly exercised. The end result, he said, was a strange, lumpy physique that disturbed in unexpected ways. Probably not true, but I always liked the idea.
Anyhoo, I think these shoes are ugly (more because of the awful heel than the tabi toes) but not much more so than other footwear, and maybe less so than those high heeled crocs in the thread next door.
