Winklepicker

As Pike is called shoes, which run forward extremely sharp.

Name forms

The name Pikes despite the English form (such as " spikes" ) mostly in German-speaking common. In English, one usually speaks rather of Winkle Pickers (such as " shell - glasses " because they are so sharp that it could be used literally open shells ) and beiweilen the resulting truncated form picker is used in both language areas.

Use

Pikes were preferred worn since the 1980s by supporters of the wave and gothic subculture, here mostly as ankle- height boots with three to five buckles, but also flat shoes (with none at all or only one buckle ) and higher boots (up to at least knee height and about 10 buckles ) available. The environment of the black scene seems also the name Pikes to come, while also used in the English Winkle Picker to less extreme, most earlier forms pointed shoes.

However, when scene shoes Goths they are now almost extinct and were replaced by more bulky military and platform boots and fetish footwear since the 1990s. Only British firms still seem to continue to manufacture Pikes that are rarely get in German stores of the black scene. Therefore Pikes today often nearly as seen in Germany the character of collectibles and, due to their poor availability and the work involved and partly as a kind of statement, to feel connected to the original black scene (and less the manifold modern excesses with their slightly in relating to each scene shop " unit clothing ").

Origin

The origin of the Pikes is not clear. While Some sees it as a relic of the New Romantic scene ( whose influence on early English Gothic scene is disputed), Other suspect the origin of the pointed shoes of the 1950s.

Still others see the origins of cowboy boots ( concentrate more on cowboy -inspired clothing is, however, clearly identify with some musicians from the gothic scene until the late 1980s ) or in the pointed shoes of the Middle Ages and / or the East ( the Middle Ages and as exotic treaty which is regarded have always been important elements of the English Gothic fiction, which owes the gothic scene motives, moods and names).

Left

• Fantasy Shoes and Boots - English manufacturer for alternative footwear
• Pennangalan - English manufacturer and distributor for gothic and fetish footwear

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