The game is a foot

[red_frog]

The shoe meme, and watching a cute but precarious (and precarious turns me off) girl teeter down the sidewalk on my way home tonight brought this up

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[red_frog]

So it's mostly a matter of what you don't like, not what you do?

[firinel]

When it comes to other people I might fancy? yeah, I think that's a good way to put it. I can entertain that people might want to wear something other than hiking sandals and shit-kickers, but I feel so dramatically uncomfortable in those sorts of heels, I think they [the heels] leak an uncomfortableness that contaminates the wearer to some degree for me, too.

[firinel]

hmm, probably not the very strappy, barely-there sort of stilleto, probably anything other than those very long, pointy-toed heels.

I actually look at the shoes on purpose.

[moderately_mad]

I think its akin to that line from Silence of the Lambs: "You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube, with a little taste."

So.

Male: steel-toed, lace up, work boots; subtle cowboy boots; hiking boots, simple sneakers (though a fun color can be cool); simple, black, laced, dress shoes (to go with a suit), or driving mocs. I don't want to see socks...either wear long pants or go with the driving mocs for shorts. (Exception: sneakers or hiking boots with not-obnoxious white socks are okay.) Best would be jeans and boots

Re: I actually look at the shoes on purpose.

[red_frog]

The last question is, "What if this person is not someone you find sexually attractive, but they're pretty to look at?" I find that I want the people I find attractive to have comfortable feet but those I find just pretty are allowed to have shoes that look painful and I can enjoy the picture.

That sounds very odd now that I've written it down. :) Perhaps it's that I am identifying more closely with those I think are attractive and I don't want their feet to hurt.

[hobbitblue]

I'm so not into shoes that I'd not notice the footwear unless they were walking strangely, or wearing something really outlandish (cowboy boots with spurs, or clown shoes, or something...). Shoes aside, someone's taste in clothing can be what catches my eye before the other things about them, but I'd not dismiss a cute someone just for wearing odd things.

[teddywolf]

Really, they could be wearing most anything on their feet. They could have open-toe sandals, ratty sneakers, pleasant high-heels, big stompy boots, or be barefoot. Unless they're barefoot, their footgear informs me that they are wearing shoes. It can indicate something about style, but it doesn't always.

I have other visual cues that catch my eye, all aesthetic in some way. What grabs my interest most are jingle anglets. My head whips round for bells. Or, perhaps, belles with bells.