/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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Can't help you with recs, but at least I can point out why the docs tend to look wrong.

These are the most sedate docs I could find. Now observe the thick rubber soles on the bottom of the shoes closely. Docs tend to be working shoes (or at least, they have that aesthetic), so those rubber soles tend to be really thick and chunky, on most docs the soles are up to a whole cm wider than the shoes themselves (it does make the shoe more stable, and to be really fair the older docs are very, very good working boots). And because this whole "working boots" thing is part of their aesthetic, not only do they do nothing to hide this huge-ass rugged sole, the modern docs you find tend to use contrasting colour, even contrasting stitching here to emphasise how utilitiarian the rubber bottoms are, which emphasises how much they're workmen's shoes.

Now consider Aristo and ouji, a fashion based on looking like a prince. It's superficial and impractical to the point of valuing beauty over form. We have useless jabots. Heat-trapping coats. Tall collars that block your peripheral view. Curtain trim on outfits. And you're going to match all of that with... workmen boots? C'mon, you want to look like you're going to the races to laugh at the hoi polloi, not roof some peasant's house. At least wear tall platforms that look like you might fall and break your neck, it goes better with all the other impractical things you're wearing.