Fashion is an important part of culture. The outfits that we choose to wear, reveals a lot about ourselves. Our taste, our cultures and our personality can be portrayed by the choice of our outfits. It all starts with the shoes. Shoe culture is a relatively new, growing aspect of our society. The choice of shoes can make or break the entire look that you’re going for. For example, wearing red shoes when you’re wearing a red shit or dress is a great choice because it matches with something that you’re wearing, but wearing bright neon green shoes with the same clothes would be an unorthodox combination, that doesn’t match with the rest of your outfit.

It’s small details like this that are recognized among people that you know and complete strangers that you come across on the sky train or the bus station. There’s a lot of importance put on the shoes that you wear, whether you realize it or not. Shoe culture is such a craze at the moment that people have a borderline obsession with collecting new pairs of shoes and not even wearing them. If you spend that much money on a pair of shoes, why not wear it? Instead, it just collects dust in the cupboard that they’re stored in.

There’s a standard pair of white shoes that everyone has in their collection of shoes because white matches well with most outfits. There’s a certain importance place on the brand of shoes that you buy as well. It’s consumerism at its finest. Nike’s have the white Air Force 1’s that people obsess over. It’s the standard choice when it comes to buying white shoes. They have a popular demand, mainly because of their brand recognition. Is it important to follow the cultural norm of placing importance on shoes? It might not be the case for some people but it’s important to notice these things.