Mexico town’s mutant pointy boots create a craze
Read it all. Fascinating.
The customer known only as “Cesar of Huizache” had an odd request for shoemaker Dario Calderon: He showed him a cell-phone photo of a sequined cowboy boot with pointy toes so long, they curled up toward the knees. He wanted a pair, but with longer toes.
“I thought ‘What’s up with this dude?’” Calderon said at his shop in Matehuala, a northeastern Mexican city of farmers and cattle ranchers accustomed to a more stoic cowboy look. The boot in the photo measured 60 centimeters (23 inches) “but we made him a pair that were 90 centimeters (35 inches) long.”
The mystery man from Huizache, a nearby village, wore his new boots to Mesquit Rodeo nightclub, where he danced bandido style with a handkerchief hiding his mouth and nose.
“He was dancing and having a good time and he didn’t care what people were saying about him,” said Fernando Lopez, the master of ceremonies at the rodeo-themed disco.
Then he disappeared.
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Dancing tribal in pointy boots is “like going crazy,” said Jorge Chavez, 16, whose group, Los Aliados, or The Allies, competed for the $100 prize. “We dance it as if we were chasing chickens. It’s all about goofing off.”
Housewife Laura Soto, 36, who watched the competition, convinced her husband to buy a pair of blue and silver pointy boots decorated with stars.
“The boots makes them look more sexy because you can tell they are daring,” she said.
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Francisco de Jesus Garcia, 18, poses for a photo wearing his pink pointy boots in Matehuala, Mexico. (AP Photo / Dario Lopez-Mills)
So I had to find a video. And I did. Watch it all to get the flavor, but the real action starts seven minutes in.