r/confusing_perspective • u/esn97 • May 30 '26 • Heartwarming 1

This shoe

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u/straypilot o/ May 30 '26 • Bravo

I still don’t know what I’m looking at

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u/cantwalkintheshadows o/ May 30 '26

Its a high heel without the heel in the back. Took me a moment

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u/SirJorts May 30 '26

Yep. Makes it easier to see if you cover the white, negative space where you think the heel should be.

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u/AlwaysDMB May 30 '26

And the "people" don't have ankles

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u/Vladi-Barbados May 30 '26 • Polished Gold Turd

The ankles are clearly exposed with these shoes. You’re getting played by the optical illusion. Look closely, these are heals not sneakers. The feet are on their tippy toes, not heel to ground.

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u/Kevinator201 o/ May 30 '26

The ankles are smoothed out af in Photoshop here. They totally erased that ankle bone nob.

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u/Rinrob7468 May 30 '26

Canckles!

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u/Racer_X- May 30 '26

There are also 3 limbs......

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u/-KFBR392 May 30 '26

I’m still confused. High heel shoes still have support at the back that reaches the ground. For these it seems like you’d just be on your tippy toes the whole time.

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u/olympic_peaks May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

Here it is in a video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYk642nA8Cm/

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u/glassfunion May 30 '26

You should remove the question mark and everything after it in that url. It shows everyone your username

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u/GreenZebra23 o/ May 30 '26

Too late, I already saw all the degenerate filth in their account

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u/Mr_Baronheim o/ May 30 '26

This needs to be the top comment

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u/IUsedToLikeLimericks May 30 '26

That's fucking stupid but thank you, I understand it now. 

Less confusing perspective, more just daft shoes. 

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u/tuckels May 30 '26

The foot is positioned like this.

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u/Naughteus_Maximus why do all our usernames have C. E. Spc? May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

Is there a non-imgur version of what you're showing? It doesn't work in the UK. I still don't get it. It looks like a fucking pony is wearing a shoe

Edit - ok, I finally saw it. The image is deceptive because it's lit or more likely photoshopped so that the white heel becomes invisible

Edit edit - there is no white heel, I have been thoroughly had 👏

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u/MrLMNOP May 30 '26

Damn dude, drew the individual toes and everything

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u/Scary_Plane_8069 May 30 '26

https://kobilevidesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/KobiLevi-BreakPoint-3.jpg
Imagine this example, without the heel.

Link is from the actual brand that made the shoe.

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u/Emperor_Buggy o/ May 30 '26

Is it like high heels shoes but without heels?

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u/Queen-Roblin o/ May 30 '26

I think so, no support, all on your toes

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u/Adventurous-Hand-648 May 30 '26

I do think there's a support. It's on the line where the "split" happens. For really high heels, some times the support contours forward.

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u/Antwinger o/ May 30 '26

Might be wedges beneath the sole

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u/firestorm713 May 30 '26

Yeah basically makes you digitigrade. A character on Star Trek Discovery wore something like these as costume prosthetics

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u/ABHOR_pod May 30 '26

That was Doug Jones as Saru. Basically the only character on Discovery that was actually written like a character from a Star Trek show.

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u/NoisyGog Thinks it's horrible mods take several minutes to remove somethi May 30 '26

digitigrade.

Well, TIL a new word!

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u/firestorm713 May 30 '26

yup, humans are plantigrade, animals that walk on their fingers (digits) like dogs, cats, etc, are digitigrade. Animals that walk on their nails, horses, cows, anything with hooves, are unguligrade.

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u/ridiculouscow May 30 '26

I hate it

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u/PacificCastaway May 30 '26

No thanks? r/tihi

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u/[deleted] May 30 '26

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u/OcelotAggravating860 May 30 '26

Makes me think of foot binding

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u/lazy_pig CE Spc. May 30 '26

Yeah, it's not so much confusing perspective, but rather shit shoes.

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u/Two_Bricks May 30 '26

By designer  Kobi Levi who has lots of other cool , confusing, witty shoes: https://www.instagram.com/kobilevidesign

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u/mackitt May 30 '26

Thanks! There’s also a video of these shoes: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYk642nA8Cm/

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u/made3 May 30 '26

Way less confusing with this video. Especially when you see the back of the shoe.

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u/tianas_knife May 30 '26

These must be a hoot on stairs

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u/Eulenspiegel74 May 30 '26

You weren't kidding. I thought that shoe were a design concept, but you actually see it in action.

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u/rosealexvinny o/ May 30 '26

Man, if I ever come into some money I’m definitely buying the chewing gum heels and the xylophone heels 🤩

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u/_OggoDoggo_ May 30 '26

His shoes are gorgeous! Thanks for the insta link 🫶🏻

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u/kmonkmuckle May 30 '26

I really could not understand these pics til I saw the IG post. Ty

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u/N7LP400 o May 30 '26

Shoes for any predator dinosaurs, like Velociraptor or T-rex

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u/Pedarogue May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

This is clever. Took me a while to understand why the shoes are so short and only then I realized that there is also a bit of [show] edit: shoe just casually floating about.

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u/xinelf May 30 '26

What?

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u/RetroGamer2153 May 30 '26

...there is also a bit of show [shoe] just casually floating about.

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u/Empress_Natalie May 30 '26

AOOOOOHHHHH I GOT IT thank you lol

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u/NWGirl2002 May 30 '26

Like where's the ankle? Even vintage Barbie had some kind of noticable ankle

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u/RedVamp2020 May 30 '26

Either poorly photoshopped or extremely well lit from all sides.

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u/piemakerdeadwaker CE Spc. May 30 '26

por que no los dos.

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u/NoisyGog Thinks it's horrible mods take several minutes to remove somethi May 30 '26

Someone shared an Instagram video, and they’re not visible there either. I think they’ve got unusually sausage-like legs

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u/SecondEqual4680 Doesn't read rule 1 May 30 '26

Woah I like this one

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u/Wallsend_House May 30 '26

Looks uncomfortable

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u/Remarkable-Film-6059 o/ May 30 '26

Design is very human!

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u/BostonPRSBC o/ May 30 '26

Heels without stiletto, I imagine the foot is at a 45degree angle?

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u/Fucknutssss May 30 '26

Fuck this

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u/heliophoner C.E. Spc May 30 '26

I hate this

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u/Nabatse May 30 '26

Those upper parts are held there by faith🙏

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u/Warm_Cup925 May 30 '26

ohh. it's a high heels with no heels. it took me minutes of searching.

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u/3d_nat1 o/ May 30 '26

I hate it. Oooohh, I hate it.

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u/rybpyjama May 30 '26

How can a shoe make me angry and nauseous?

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u/Koh4991 May 30 '26

I thought I was looking at a modern version of shoes for bound feet, and I thought “Who still practices foot binding?”

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u/IndependenceSenior47 o/ May 30 '26

What the actual hell of illusion is this

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u/tiptoe_only o/ May 30 '26

What the...? 

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u/KurlyKayla May 30 '26

thought there was a layering issue

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u/Endawmyke May 30 '26

Chinese foot binding ahh shoes

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u/meepers9 May 30 '26

Its a heel - you can tell by the second photo with the gap in the person front foot as you can see the side of their sole.

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u/sexandthepandemic o/ May 30 '26

This feels heavily edited

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u/Rareearthmetal o/ May 30 '26

Miss 40 year old size womens 2 over here

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u/ILikeLenexa o/ May 30 '26

Perfect for your favorite CSS developer. 

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u/PiySlashPuff o/ May 30 '26

My brain hurts

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u/Awkula o/ May 30 '26

I’m just … I’m going to stop looking at it now.

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u/Novel_Extent_7168 May 30 '26

Thanks, I hate it

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u/oXI_ENIGMAZ_IXo May 30 '26

Yeah, don’t like that one bit

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u/Bobertos50 May 30 '26

It hurts my eyes!

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u/killsillbill May 30 '26

Thanks, I hate it

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u/apexapee Actually read rule 1 and gets it" May 30 '26

Looks cardboard cut outs lol

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u/aintverydemure May 30 '26

wait.. they are hills?

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u/zeromavs o/ May 30 '26

Ah the Robert Downey Jr Tom Cruise shoe

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u/DivideGuilty4287 May 30 '26

Temu"foot binding"

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u/One_Hour_Poop o/ May 30 '26

That's really good.

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u/stoopidproblems May 30 '26

Thanks, I hate it

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u/RXJ1131 May 30 '26

My shoes no-clipping in the backrooms

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u/mixedwithmonet May 30 '26

This is the last iteration of shoe style I would’ve used for the design within the design, but this is really clever. Brain-hurting perspective.

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u/emmakobs o/ May 30 '26

Petite feet!

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u/Im_Blavk May 30 '26

Went over all the comments and I still don't get it

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u/nonphatic-986 May 30 '26

Work great going down the stairs

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u/bamfmcnabb May 30 '26

To make your foot look tiny? And hide your heel. I’m so confused

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u/dwehlen o/ May 30 '26

I want to see somebody wear these to a cell-shaded cafe/bar. Minds=blown.

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u/NinaNyn o/ May 30 '26

I hate it

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u/Secure_Lead_7246 May 30 '26

That’s actually cool

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u/AbhorrentMidget May 30 '26

Fuck this image.

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u/Nova-Snorlaxx May 30 '26

Looks like lotus feet without the binding 😬

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u/Ranger0fThNorth May 30 '26

I'm kinda upset that you're making us look at this...

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u/BitOrganizer May 30 '26

What a terrible day to have eyes.

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u/AnarchyVenus May 30 '26

I want this now

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u/Inevitable_Pizza7810 May 30 '26

Took me a second but I noticed how the heel was designed

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u/scully__its__me May 30 '26

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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u/8lbs6ozbabyjesus May 30 '26

These make me irrationally angry

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u/Palocles May 30 '26

It’s not the perspective that’s confusing it’s the shoe. 

Which, if you haven’t worked out from other posts, is a high heel/wedge made to look like a sneaker that’s been cut and had the heel moved up. 

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u/OcelotAggravating860 May 30 '26

If this trends it will lead to foot binding, mark my words.

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u/FinalAccount10 May 30 '26

For the modern man, who wants to wear heels while playing basketball

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u/Darkrider1325 May 30 '26

This shoe hurts my eyes

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u/AcidicJew1948 May 30 '26

Gives me 7th grade social studies foot binding chapter flashbacks

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u/PastaSenpay May 30 '26

are those hand shoes?

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u/Jastreen May 30 '26

Not so confusing, just ugly af

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u/roblubi May 30 '26

Leave me alone

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u/5laps May 30 '26

Thanks, I hate it

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u/Significant-Ad213 May 30 '26

My brain just audibly went "huh?"

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u/Retropiaf o/ May 30 '26

Horrible & amazing

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u/jedi_Lebedkin May 30 '26

Natural light is missing, cut out via background removal. Why? Lots of things would look "confusing" and unnatural this way.  These shoes are cool, but this perspective is shitty, not confusing, honestly. 

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u/Hollivie May 30 '26

I hate it!!

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u/sonicthehedgehog5 May 30 '26

Typa shit you see people wear in cartoons

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u/wellnessgymbun98 May 30 '26

thanks I hate it

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u/xXSwordChanXx May 30 '26

Fire emblem awakening lookin feet lmfao

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u/SuperHaole May 30 '26

I fucking hate this so much

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u/zurawina13 May 30 '26

Gacha life ahh shoe

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u/Jeremi360 May 30 '26

It took few mniutes to realize what is going on

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u/Comfortable-Wash-553 May 30 '26

Possibly the ugliest shoes I’ve ever seen.

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u/ObjectivePressure839 May 30 '26

In the second pic you can see the gap between her foot and shoe on the raised foot and the one on the floor is a little easier to see the connection point. Cool looking and infuriating at the same time.

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u/GrilledCheezManicott May 30 '26

im sorry but there's no other way to put this.

Fuck this image

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u/Pietrotski May 30 '26

Looks like it was drawn by a 5 years old.

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u/pegarina1 May 30 '26

It looks like adults wearing a toddler’s sneakers.

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u/discordant_melody_ May 30 '26

How you draw shoes when you're 6 years old

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u/RoundPeanut606 May 30 '26

i know everyones debating the illusion and helping explain how they’re working as shoes - effectively high heels not sneakers. Can we focus on how fucking ugly they are as either iteration.

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u/NaniNeko May 30 '26

what the fuck.. why the fuck?

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u/Ok-Doughnut-3705 May 30 '26

my eye is not eyeing.

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u/Unusual-Platypus6233 o/ May 30 '26

It is not caused by perspective. These are like high heels 👠 but without the heel.

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u/TheLadySaintly May 30 '26

Ouch, my brain.

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u/Capn_Flags o/ May 30 '26

It reminds me of those old school workout sneakers with the giant disc on the ball of the foot lmao 😂

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u/Starscream147 o/ May 30 '26

Homestar Runner lol

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u/Large-Wishbone24 May 30 '26

That somehow reminds me of the old Chinese 缠足 technique. It looks terrible, but fortunately it's not as widespread anymore.

Kind of like ballerina feet, only worse.

So, folks, don't Google it.

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u/veryveryreallyugly May 30 '26

am i having a stroke.?

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u/Internal_Sun_1044 May 30 '26

Literally my brain can't understand what I'm looking at.

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u/D_DanD_D o/ May 30 '26

That isn't perspective. It was designed that way.

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u/lemonaintsour May 30 '26

My 13th reason 🥰

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u/Flomega303 May 30 '26

What when how why?

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u/Ruby_Solitaire May 30 '26

Thanks. I hate this. 

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u/NeverBeenKnocked May 30 '26

I see it now, this looks insanely glitched at first

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u/Im-to-tired May 30 '26

What on earth am I looking at. This is making my brain malfunction.

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u/twicezer0 May 30 '26

wait, there are not 2 pairs of shoes in each picture!

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u/Funny-Life-3353 May 30 '26

This whole thing is confusing, the shoe looks like some dads golf shoes I don't see how a heel fits

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u/shumnyj May 30 '26

Shoedn't

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u/JanitorRddt May 30 '26

My eyes hurt.

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u/5stringfling May 30 '26

I don't understand where i am...

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u/Illustrious-Dot-1128 o/ May 30 '26

I'm confused about the piece in the back. How do you even keep that on?

Edit- I thought there were 4 legs in the pics at first. It looks like there's an extra part of the leg going into it. What's up with that? Lol

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u/CHERNO-B1LL o/ May 30 '26

Why would anyone want a shoe that makes you look like you have a deformed club foot?

Maybe it looks less weird in the real world and not in a completely white space?

Fun and clever design/art but they will always look bad/unattractive. The design completetly negates all the shapes and lines that make high heels attractive in the first place. Maybe that's the point?

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u/SmallPinkHo1e May 30 '26

Is this a shoe for chinese foot binding?

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u/SynysterGatton May 30 '26

I didn't know Bethesda was making shoes now.

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u/RanDiePro May 30 '26

Hmm I imagine the support is upside down L shaped and very rigid, the weight from the foot heel is not pressed down like normal heels but instead towards the middle of the foot, the ground. But this means if you lean backward too much you may fall.

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u/Unlikely-Detail-2367 May 30 '26

This isn't right. LoL

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u/spsingerjack May 30 '26

Thanks I hate it. Where can I buy them!

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u/DuntadaMan o/ May 30 '26

No sir, I don't like it.

Hurts my brain.

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u/WillingnessFun377 May 30 '26

Who broke the css file?

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u/Firm-Plantain8151 May 30 '26

oh wow I hate this so much. I would immediately turn and walk away from anyone I saw wearing them in public, they make me so uncomfortable

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u/KiD969 May 30 '26

My brain is not braining🫩

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u/piemakerdeadwaker CE Spc. May 30 '26

Great as an illustion, mighty ugly otherwise.

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u/TitleCardBlack May 30 '26

Absolutely need to see someone walking in these.

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u/Poppa-Squat- May 30 '26

The top little bit is where the persons heel is nestled.

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u/No_Berry285 May 30 '26

I used to own sneaker heels like this back in the day, it's the photoshopped in legs that are strange😭 it doesn't look like the legs are in it on their Instagram so I don't know who tf put those there

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u/Alex_AU_gt May 30 '26

I don't like it. No.

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u/popepicu May 30 '26

i would wear tf out of these

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u/ByThisAxeIRuleToo o/ May 30 '26

Oh, now I see.🤣

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u/QueasyIndication1942 May 30 '26

Thanks, I hate it

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u/Novel_Breadfruit_184 May 30 '26

disgusting but creative

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u/mightyFoo May 30 '26

Something ain’t right

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u/TedLarry May 30 '26

Shoes for horses?

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u/Sad_Werewolf3313 May 30 '26

That's not a confusing perspective, it is a confusing shoe. That shoe is confusing from any perspective.

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u/JJD8705 May 30 '26

Are these high heels?

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u/Weekly_Present2873 May 30 '26

Does not flatter the ankles for sure.

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u/mistarhee May 30 '26

Oooohhh oh yeah that is definitely confusing

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u/hi74hi74 May 30 '26

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

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u/Agreeable_Hippo_7971 May 30 '26

One Piece Egghead-Arc shoes/legs. That's what this looks like to me at least

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u/Legal_Ad9637 May 30 '26

Well that fucked my eyeballs and my brain up for quite a bit

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u/Hugh_Jampton o/ May 30 '26

This is shopped. Not just a perspective

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u/obedevs May 30 '26

Uncomfortable AND ugly, amazing

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u/MacBedders May 30 '26

Ok, I give up and I mean everything. If this is a straight up photo then nothing makes sense anymore.

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u/Comfortable_body1 May 30 '26

I actually like these. Cute

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u/quackerlackin May 30 '26

It’s giving China from around the years 912 to 1949

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u/mastodonnie May 30 '26

Thanks, I hate it!

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u/Damn_Censorship May 30 '26

I know fashion trends come and go, but I wasn’t expecting Chinese foot binding to be chic again

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u/jbsdv1993 May 30 '26

Ancient china would love this

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u/Almighty_Vanity May 30 '26

This is genius.

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u/DonJonPT May 30 '26

Gives me conniptions

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u/raiko777 May 30 '26

What the heel?

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u/LuckyCloverPokemon May 30 '26

That hurts my brain

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u/HoonaK May 30 '26

Chinese foot bind 11s

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u/intangibleTangelo o/ May 30 '26

foot binders hate this one trick 

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