Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Emo Shoes and the Elements Used to Get the Look

By Paulie Jon


Many shirts, shoes, and even mugs today are already infiltrated by the famous emo subculture. These emo articles typically contain a depiction of deep human emotions such as loneliness and sadness. Many emo lovers like the fact that these emo inspired articles show the deepest human emotions.

To further understand why people of all ages love emo shoes, here are some of the common themes seen in these emo inspired shoes:

Blood and dark hues - Many of the popular emo shoe designs depict blood and other dark hues in the designs. Blood evokes a symbolic expression of human emotions that are used in the emo fashion. Such designs are used not only in shoes but also in bags, shirts, caps and other fashion articles as well.

Mystical figures - These shoes are also characterized by its use of occult or mystical figures just like the Goth shoes. Such quality is a shared characteristic of these shoes with the slightly similar punk shoes and goth shoes. The emo shoes are depicted with these slightly weird and mystical figures to get the message of the theme across. You need not worry about the appeal and character of such themes because they hold so much character that will let you stand out in a crowd.

Sad faces - Many emo shoes will also depict a sad face whether in human form or in caricatures or emoticons. Hence, these shoes will be more distinguishable over other popular shoe fashion trends such as the punk shoes or goth shoes.

Broken hearts - As humans consider the heart as the seat of the most intense human emotions, the use of hearts in emo footwear becomes perfectly logical. When these heart figures are used, there is a depiction of a deeper human emotions through it. There are oftentimes modifications in depicting hearts in emo art such as the bleeding or broken heart. Through this depiction of the heart, the message of sadness or other deep emotion can be more easily expressed.

The use of famous artists and bands in the emo genre - It is also an observable trend in seeing popular artists, music bands and other popular emo personalities in these shoes. Hence, this shows us that the emo subculture has definitely started a trend that now has many followers. The popular personalities in the emo scene are often seen in all these shoe designs. Even famous anime characters are used to depict the emo tone and to achieve variety in the emo designs.




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