Converse Product Red Jack Purcell African Canvas Ox & DC Journal Women's in purple

[cimorene]

You know, I don't really know why these second pair aren't unisex shoes. I mean, granted, they are purple, but I'm pretty sure I've seen more dudes wearing this type of color-combination than ladies in any case. It's not like we're alien species that actually have differently-shaped feet; this is just bizarrely needles gender segregation, like Ladies' Fishing Poles and (pink) Monopoly for Girls, only kind of even weirder since it isn't like it's pink and covered in eyelet ruffles.

FAIL, DC Shoes, fail. (And skate style is all about the unisex anyway, so I've no idea why the skate shoe brands are even more invested in labelling their shoes GIRRRRRL than everyone else - unless it's the idiotic gender-segregated and wholly arbitrary shoe-sizing system. Not everyone can be as enlightened as Converse, I suppose.)

 

Comments

[satu]

The need for gender-specific shoes (that aren't like high heels) and shoe sizes is one of those things that baffles me every time go inside a shoe shop. I think it's the gender-specific rain boots I find most baffling. Because of course women and men get their feet wet in a different manner! *sigh*

[cimorene]

I think that's why it's so awesome that Bell's husband wears those pink Converse, although of course Converse are also unisex-sized.

At least the majority of bedroom slippers, garden clogs, and flip-flops are still unisex.

[brewsternorth]

And skate style is all about the unisex anyway

*nods* I was watching a documentary a while back about pro skater Christian Hosoi and his rise and fall - and his "style" was definitely more towards the unisex.