Toes exposed: what if they really were “the new legs” in fashion?

Here we say it and we don’t deny it: the trendiest neckline to discover this season is that of toes.

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After dizzying slits showing more and more centimeters of legs, daring cuts on unexplored areas of skin, side A and B now cleared through customs on full display, especially at the latest fashion shows staged, those of Spring/Summer 2024, designers’ attention seems to have shifted towards the lower extremities.

That, in the game of sensuality, they are the toes «the new legs»? After all, the human foot, as we know, possesses a natural erotic charge whose powers have had a notable influence on people of all cultures. As, moreover, is confirmed by the 10 million people who visit every month wikiFeet (sort of foot fetish Wikipedia).

David Beckham and Timothée Chalamet have style down to their toes. But there is a but…

Isn’t the truth that, perhaps, they are only good for them? In recent days Beckham and Chalamet have made everyone agree: the pairing of sandals and socks seemed really cool. However, we are talking about two deities of style. Because outside the fashionable Paradise, here on Earth, the combination for everyone else remains perhaps not prohibitive, but certainly to be handled with caution

For the next fashion season, several front-line brands have turned the spotlight on this part of the body, from New York to Milan. They’re back in vogue the open toes, footwear that leaves the toes exposed, spotted by Versace, Sportmax, Burberry among others.

Between playfulness and provocation, repulsion (yes, for many, bare feet also generate a form of disgust) and attraction, a new, more subtle type of seduction is now asserting itself, probably deriving from the overexposure of the most beautiful parts of our body.

A cool attitude which infects celebs: we saw last July Pryankha Chopra in the stands of Wimbledon to watch the sporting tournament in anything but outfits athleisureor a floral dress with open-toed stretch boots, Irina Shayk the following month he responded by literally taking to the tennis court complete with open toe flip-flops.

While just a few days ago Kylie Jenner she wore a white total look by Sportmax, including open-toed boots (which Victoria Beckham already sported in 2019).

The sartorial approach is clear: gone are the days when the pedicure was hidden by the boots.

Knee-high boots, the most colorful to face the gray of autumn

What Chiara Ferragni ed. has in common Emily in Paris? A pair of boots over the rainbow, the object of desire of the most energetic moment, launched on the Autumn/Winter 2022-23 catwalks. And hyper approved by street style fashion

If fashion sought, first with Celine (we all remember the bare foot effect pumps complete with nail polish on her toes at the Spring/Summer 2013 fashion show), then with Schiaparelli (from the black shoes with dagger-shaped golden nails on the catwalk for the Spring/Summer 2022 Haute Couture to the sculptural shoes in golden lacquer showing the five toes also worn by Chiara Ferragni and Doja Cat)and again with Miu Miu (which launched flip-flop boots for Spring/Summer 2023), to shine the style spotlight down below, today the consecration-à-porter for this erogenous zone of the body has definitely arrived.

Airing your feet, in fact, is the best feeling ever and fashion designers are instinctive people who understand and translate these things into garments and accessories. Freud would probably connect the allure of an erotically charged shoe to some sort of long-standing childhood trauma. But these open-toe styles, in vogue now, to be worn in this, so far, mild autumn and at least until next season, fulfill another more important function: they are sartorially progressive. And this is perhaps the most powerful aphrodisiac of all.

Second hand shoes: why buy them, and why not (in our opinion)

For garments and bags, the second-hand sector is booming, especially in recent seasons in which the combo of sustainable awareness plus nostalgic trend has generated a boom in sales. Even regarding shoes. But there are those who hesitate to put those of others. And are you #TeamSì or #teamNo for second hand shoes?