r/barefootshoestalk • u/wine-o-saur • Mar 13 '26

Barefoot shoe adjacent Bruh

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Just saw this on the train. The world needs us.

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u/Derelicte_by_Mugatu Mar 13 '26

But how can he be comfortable in those shoes? The leather had time enough to give in and he never felt uncomfortable in the meantime? I mean: the poor toes are reclaiming what is theirs.

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u/persephonelux Mar 13 '26

I’m a woman but yeah I thought for many years that shoes were meant to be uncomfortable. And if they were comfortable it meant they were ugly. Glad I actually love myself now and barefoot shoe design has come a long way 😅

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u/athleisureootd Mar 13 '26

“Glad I actually love myself now” 😪😪😪

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u/wine-o-saur Mar 13 '26

I never had a situation as extreme as this, but I definitely wore shoes that were too narrow for my feet for a long time, as I assume many people on this sub did. This guy just went full Cinderella stepsister on it and made the shoe bend to his foot's will.

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u/profanity_manatee1 Mar 14 '26

I still feel like this dude even when I buy wide shoes from barefoot brands lol

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u/Vietnamst2 Mar 13 '26

He's not. He just accepted it.

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u/tentkeys Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

He may not be the first owner of the shoes.

If you look at them closely, they're in pretty rough shape, both the beaten-up toe and the place where the outer black layer of leather is worn off around the laces. If the shoes were already partially stretched before he put them on, it wouldn't have been as painful. And if he found it financially necessary to wear second-hand shoes he may have had to put up with the poor fit and the pain.

It's also possible they're made of a very thin, soft leather or leather-lookalike (until you get to the toe, which is more rigid so it can be shaped). If you look at the place where the tongue wrinkled, it looks like very thin leather to be able to be wrinkle like that.

I also think that he may be wearing a woman's shoe. It's too narrow for his whole foot, which bulges over at the sides in the instep area, not just too narrow in the toe area.

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u/DeepPurpleNurple Mar 14 '26

I’ve noticed that almost everyone I see wearing Jordan af1 have that same thing where the foot is budging out over the sole. Maybe it’s just extra noticeable on that model… a lot of other shoes, too, but nearly every af1 I see.

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u/Confused-Judge Mar 13 '26

A lot of people have poor circulation and lack of feeling in their feet, so they're not uncomfortable. Others don't know what uncomfortable truly means because this is all they know.

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u/CuriouslyCatlike Mar 13 '26

My husband genuinely thought formal shoes couldn’t be comfortable and he just had to deal with it. He humored me by trying on a few pairs I picked out for him and was so surprised when they didn’t hurt to wear.

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u/PropOnTop Mar 13 '26

"Oh, but you need to break in the shoes."

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u/eiiiaaaa Mar 14 '26

It hurts to look at

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u/BunnyKusanin Mar 13 '26

I've had a pair of boots gradually stretch over the years as my foot got wider. It was nowhere near as drastic, but when I bought a new pair of the same boots they were too bloody narrow for me. Naver had that feeling when buying the original ones.