Footwear faux pas: Prada pushes the prosthetic leg look, while Dior embraces socks and sandals
It's not very often that men get a better choice of designer footwear than women (have you seen Louboutin's male sandals?).
And with brogues gracing the feet of female fashionistas the world over, men would be forgiven for fretting that women have a better deal on every shoe-related front... not so.
In the - granted pretty niche - field of designer sock-sandal-boot combos, men clearly come out on top.
Terrible idea: Prada's Mary Jane leather boots that are meant to look like shoes but end up looking more like prosthetic legs
Dior Homme's shandals (yes that's socks and sandals all rolled into one) are almost acceptable.
Prada's Mary Jane Boots aren't.
Only Dior could come close to pulling off the famously dodgy 'socks with sandals' look. Their newest black leather gladiator sandals, revealed last Friday, come with a built-in slipper-like cotton lining.
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The lace-up sock is removable, so it's like getting two pairs of shoes for the price of one - which might make the £530 price tag slightly more palatable.
The two components of Prada's Mary Jane shoe-boots cannot be separated. But that's the least of the footwear's worries.
From far away, the shoes look like a normal pair of Sixties-style red Mary Janes - like a court shoe but with a strap.
Socks and sandals: Dior Homme's gladiator sandals with a built-in cotton sock are slightly more acceptable
But these aren't shoes, they're boots - with a flesh coloured leather addition that goes right up to the knee.
Quite why Prada thought the design was a good idea is beyond us.
They do solve the problem of having to keep your legs silky smooth. But most would prefer that slight inconvenience to looking like the bottom half of your leg is a completely different colour to the top half - particularly if you have to pay £900 for the privilege.
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