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* Music/{{Lit}}: Jeremy Popoff, the band's guitarist is famously known for his "hot rod" sneakers, which have white flames on top of a black background. He had them custom made and owns about 8-9 pairs and even wore them at his wedding, with his groomsmen wearing their own sets with the colors reversed. They even get a spotlight in the Music video for Music/{{Miserable}}. In one of the video's [[SignatureScene]]s Jeremy gets devoured by the GiantWoman, who then pauses to spit out one of his famous shoes, which lands perfectly on the floor with a thud.

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* Music/{{Lit}}: Jeremy Popoff, the band's guitarist is famously known for his "hot rod" sneakers, which have white flames on top of a black background. He had them custom made and owns about 8-9 pairs and even wore them at his wedding, with his groomsmen wearing their own sets with the colors reversed. They even get a spotlight in the Music video for Music/{{Miserable}}. In one of the video's [[SignatureScene]]s [[SignatureScene signature scenes]] Jeremy gets devoured by the GiantWoman, who then pauses to spit out one of his famous shoes, which lands perfectly on the floor with a thud.
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* Music/{{Lit}}: Jeremy Popoff, the band's guitarist is famously known for his "hot rod" sneakers, which have white flames on top of a black background. He had them custom made and owns about 8-9 pairs and even wore them at his wedding, with his groomsmen wearing their own sets with the colors reversed. They even get a spotlight in the Music video for Music/{{Miserable}}. In one of the video's [[SignatureScene]]s Jeremy gets devoured by the GiantWoman, who then pauses to spit out one of his famous shoes, which lands perfectly on the floor with a thud.

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Distinctive footwear, may that be shoes, sandals, or boots, make people more flesh out in the crowd. Very usually, their footwear are fancy, unusual and unique to one character (or that group) and they tell you more about the character's personality and their sense of style.

Compare AllWomenLoveShoes.

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Distinctive footwear, may that be shoes, sandals, or boots, make people more flesh out in the crowd. Very usually, their footwear are fancy, unusual and unique to one character (or that group) and they tell you more about the character's personality and personality.

Related to MeaningfulAppearance when a character's appearance symbolises something about them or
their sense of style.

Compare AllWomenLoveShoes.
personality.



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* Green of the ''Advertising/MAndMs'' wears a classy pair of go-go boots.
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* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** The Senshi's outfits include personalized footwear. Rei/Mars's red CombatStilettos (which [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes lover]] Creator/NaokoTakeuchi states as her favorite), Michiru/Neptune's blue/green pumps with laces and Hotaru/Saturn's elaborate purple boots with black laces are among the nicest.
** The ''very'' {{camp}} villain Tiger's Eye wore damn fine knee-length black boots.
** In an episode of the first anime, Mamoru got Usagi a pair of '''extremely''' pretty [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} glass slippers]] as a birthday gift. Too bad these were "laced" with a Daemon...



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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration changes her coronation dress]] into AnIceSuit, complete with high-heeled snowflake shoes.
** In its sequel ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', she wears a pair of ice blue boots that has shimmering snowflake patterns to go with her attire.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration changes her coronation dress]] into AnIceSuit, complete with high-heeled snowflake shoes.
** In its sequel ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', she wears
''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'''s iconic footwear is a pair of ice blue boots that has shimmering snowflake patterns to go with glass slippers magically created by her attire.Fairy Godmother. After losing one of her shoes at the prince (or king)'s ball, it becomes his only way of finding her, due to their uniqueness.



* ''Film/JojoRabbit'': Rosie, Jojo's mother, wears a pair of red-and-white lace-up pumps throughout the movie. Near the end, there is a scene where Jojo follows a butterfly and [[spoiler:since he is bending down, he doesn't notice he has walked under the town gallows until he straightens up and sees Rosie's distinctive shoes right in front of his face. He breaks down when he realizes his mother has been executed.]]



* Hans Christian Andersen's literary fairy tale ''Literature/TheRedShoes'' features a pair of vibrant, magical red shoes that force the heroine to dance on them.
* ''Literature/TerraIgnota'' exaggerates this. Every member of the Humanist Hive wears personalized boots per their guiding philosophy of individual excellence and leaving a mark on history -- wherever they walk, you can tell by the footprints who was doing the walking.
** Cato Weeksbooth, an OmnidisciplinaryScientist and teacher, has boots that are a wraparound display screen cycling through a live display of different anatomical layers of his feet, when they aren't showing an animal's feet or robotic feet.
** Superstar athlete Sniper has boots striped in the colors of the Olympics and covered in medals from the same (they barely fit in the available space).
** Ockham Saneer, legally allowed to commit murder in defense of the globally-vital infrastructure he manages, has boots made of steel and real leather from a deer he hunted and killed himself. [[spoiler:He's also a member of a GovernmentConspiracy ring of assassins empowered to commit murder in defense of world peace.]]
** Mycroft is not a Humanist, but he wears shoes with soft bristles instead of soles so that any insects he trods on are brushed out of the way instead of killed, as he wishes to do no harm to any living being.



* ''Series/BreakingBad'': The Salamanca Twins, a pair of cartel hitmen, wear distinct dress shoes with metal skulls adorned on the toes. A man who recognizes the shoes as signs of the cartel is immediately executed so he doesn't report the twins to the authorities.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Tenth Doctor wears a pair of red Converse sneakers alongside his otherwise unassuming suit and overcoat, tying in with his characterization as more openly eccentric than his predecessor. Of note is that the sneakers were [[https://www.insider.com/david-tennant-fought-for-doctor-who-to-wear-converse-2018-10 suggested]] by his actor, Creator/DavidTennant; the production team wanted to give the Tenth Doctor a pair of Fourth Doctor-style boots, and fought hard to preserve the idea before Tennant won the argument.



* In ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters,'' [[SadistTeacher the Gromble]] wears red high heels on his four feet. The Gromble is male, incidentally.
* Boots the Monkey from ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' has his distinctive red boots, hence his name and he loves them.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters,'' [[SadistTeacher the Gromble]] wears red high heels on his four feet. The Gromble is male, incidentally.
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* Boots the Monkey from ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' has his distinctive red boots, hence his name name, and he loves them.them as he is an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal.



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has her big red boots as explained earlier in the comic books folder above. She also has similar looking boots for her winter attire and school uniform.
* Florence from ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' wears her unique pair of big white laced ankle boots in a vintage "Babybotte" model where it has the trademark heel blocks at the back of her boots. The post-2005 CGI era has her ankle boots in beige.
* Kimi is almost never seen without her purple cowgirl boots in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has her big red boots as explained earlier in the comic books folder above.boots. She also has similar looking boots for her winter attire and school uniform.
* Florence from ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' wears her unique pair of big white laced ankle boots in a vintage "Babybotte" model where it has the trademark heel blocks at the back of her boots. The post-2005 CGI era has her ankle boots These are what made the real life French shoe brand Babybotte popular in beige.
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* Kimi is almost never seen without her unique purple cowgirl boots in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' as she's adventurous and extremely fearless.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' always wears a pair of wooden sandals (known as "geta" in Japanese). He's so attached to the style that there's an entire episode dedicated to them being destroyed and him trying to find a replacement pair. It also stands out in the wildly futuristic setting he's trapped in where high-tech apparel is the norm.
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** Rouge equips herself with white thigh-high boots with hot pink cuffs and heart-shaped toe caps to [[CombatStilettos kick things]].

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** Rouge equips herself with white thigh-high boots with hot pink cuffs and heart-shaped toe caps to [[CombatStilettos kick things]].
** Blaze wore similar shoes to Sonic’s except they were hot pink instead of red and high-heeled. Yet, she can able to [[CombatStilettos run with them]].
** Being from the future, Silver dons futuristic navy blue boots with white stripes similar to Amy’s, cyan toe caps, golden cuffs glowing cyan lights, and a red gem on each boot.
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* Sid has his prized white Winklepicker Beatle boots in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. They mean a lot to him and he'll cry when they are stolen or damaged. They were once stolen from him in "Monkeyman!" and in "Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie", they ultimately rip apart when they get stuck in the mud whilst having to hike with the group in the jungle after their boat gets wrecked.
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': After spending the entire comic barefoot, Xykon gets Boots of Free Movement in Kragoor's Tomb and really likes them, because his toe bones no longer hit things.
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* ''WebVideo/CJDachamp'': This is lampshaded, as Black Air Force energy is said to come off from everyone wearing solid black shoes. When people in Tokyo Revengers show up in all-black shoes, CJ takes it as a sign that everyone should be worried.
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* ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'': The movie opens with a close-up of Tony's shoes. As he struts down the street, he compares his shoes to a store model's and is satisfied that they're similar.


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* ''Music/{{Graceland}}'': "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes".
-->''She is a rich girl, she don't try to hide it''\\
''Diamonds on the soles of her shoes.''
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* VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}: Pendles wears a dope pair of sneakers for sneaking. Said sneakers have a subtle squeak regardless of terrain.
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* ''Anime/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'': The Silver Shoes. Interestingly, they start out looking like ordinary peasant shoes. Once Dorothy obtains them, the shoes magically change to a pair of shiny silver Mary Janes.
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Distinctive footwear, may that be shoes, sandals, or boots, make people flesh out. Very usually, their footwear are fancy, unusual and unique to one character (or that group) and they tell you more about the character's personality and sense of style.

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Distinctive footwear, may that be shoes, sandals, or boots, make people more flesh out. out in the crowd. Very usually, their footwear are fancy, unusual and unique to one character (or that group) and they tell you more about the character's personality and their sense of style.
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Distinctive footwear, may that be shoes, sandals, or boots, make people flesh out. Very usually, their footwear are fancy, unusual and unique to one character (or that group) and they tell you more about the character's personality and sense of style.

Compare AllWomenLoveShoes.

See also TheOneWhoWearsShoes as a character, who is usually anthropomorphic, to wear shoes in a world of barefooters.

Contrast DoesNotLikeShoes as the wearer would be barefoot and never wears shoes at all.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Green of the ''Advertising/MAndMs'' wears a classy pair of go-go boots.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Anime]]
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** The Senshi's outfits include personalized footwear. Rei/Mars's red CombatStilettos (which [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes lover]] Creator/NaokoTakeuchi states as her favorite), Michiru/Neptune's blue/green pumps with laces and Hotaru/Saturn's elaborate purple boots with black laces are among the nicest.
** The ''very'' {{camp}} villain Tiger's Eye wore damn fine knee-length black boots.
** In an episode of the first anime, Mamoru got Usagi a pair of '''extremely''' pretty [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} glass slippers]] as a birthday gift. Too bad these were "laced" with a Daemon...
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
*The eponymous ''ComicBook/{{Hilda}}'' is almost never seen without her big red boots.
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[[folder:Film - Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration changes her coronation dress]] into AnIceSuit, complete with high-heeled snowflake shoes.
** In its sequel ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', she wears a pair of ice blue boots that has shimmering snowflake patterns to go with her attire.
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* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' has Dorothy Gale wearing the film's iconic Ruby Slippers -- which were silver in the original book, but they didn't show up well on film, so they had to change the colour to make the shoes more visible.
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* In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', Dorothy has the silver slippers, which she uses to get back home to Kansas. She uses a magic belt in later books.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has Charlie Kelly's pair of vintage Vans Sk8 His; black suede with red inner lining, red soles, and a white foxing stripe, which are occasionally shown off when he puts his feet up. Somewhat subverted as they appear to be Charlie's only shoes, appearing in every episode and really show it, with the sole textures wearing down, and large holes creeping up in the worn out heels as time goes on.
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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Much was made of Sonic's [[ProductPlacement Soap]] shoes in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', and the Grinding ability that came with them. Sonic, however, has always had distinctive red/white shoes, since it's the only thing he wears (besides a pair of gloves).
** Shadow, meanwhile, has hoverjet-equipped white and red shoes [[ShoutOut that look identical to]] Franchise/{{Gundam}} feet. May or may not be his actual feet as [[DependingOnTheWriter by some accounts]] he's a cyborg in addition to being genetically engineered.
** Since her redesign in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Amy Rose now sports a unique pair of red boots that has a white stripe on the front and matching cuffs to match with her red and white dress.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters,'' [[SadistTeacher the Gromble]] wears red high heels on his four feet. The Gromble is male, incidentally.
* Boots the Monkey from ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' has his distinctive red boots, hence his name and he loves them.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has her big red boots as explained earlier in the comic books folder above. She also has similar looking boots for her winter attire and school uniform.
* Florence from ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' wears her unique pair of big white laced ankle boots in a vintage "Babybotte" model where it has the trademark heel blocks at the back of her boots. The post-2005 CGI era has her ankle boots in beige.
* Kimi is almost never seen without her purple cowgirl boots in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', as TheOneWhoWearsShoes (not when Sandy is wearing her suit or when Spongebob is with a minor character who also wears shoes), wears black patent leather shoes, which helps add to his dorky personality, especially with the distinctive squeaky sounds as he walks.
** When outside her treedome, Sandy herself wears space boots with her diving suit, and they make some distinctive clinking sounds as she walks.
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