winklepicker

In her short shirtwaist dress and white winklepicker shoes she was the height of fashion.

Winklepicker shoes, knitted ties and Bri-nylon shirts spring to mind.

In the early 1960s, the winklepicker toe was popular with modernists, the forerunners of the mods.

The original 1960s winklepicker stilettos were similar to the long, pointed toe that has been fashionable on women's shoes and boots in Europe of late.

In the convention of symbols this referred to female genitalia rather the phallic of the long toes or winklepicker shoes.

Think Alex Turner at Glastonbury 2013 but with extra bandanas, stripes and some winklepicker boots.

Winklepicker shoes from Stan's of Battersea were also worn by the Teddy Girls as well as being a fleeting fashion for young women generally.

The most beautiful things I ever owned were a pair of "gilver" (gold/silver) leather winklepicker stilettos, found in Scarborough when I was 17.

Despite the alternatives, poulaines remained popular throughout Europe until in 1367, when Pope Urban V eventually banned commoners from wearing the winklepicker shoe.

Dressed in fifties-style leather jackets and winklepicker boots, they wended their way into Yoyogi Park, site of the towering Meiji Shrine.

In most cases, too, the modern shoe toes lack the length of the true 1960s winklepicker and bear more resemblance to the less pointed mass-produced versions of the era.

Currently, winklepicker boots are very popular in Germany among the modern Vogue Goth and Punk subcultures, who refer to the boots as "pikes".

I arrived feeling good: I was wearing a new baggy black cotton top over a short black and white skirt, with black tights and my best black winklepicker shoes.

Winklepicker shoes, inspired by the Poulaines worn by the medieval French nobility, were a conspicuous contrast to the brothel creepers worn by Teddy Boys.

In fact, although the winklepicker looks lethal, it would be far more likely for damage to be caused to the delicately pointed shoe than to the opponent in any serious kicking incident.

The shoes are closely related to British Garage Rock band The Horrors, who even went as far as to have a winklepicker boot with three buckles on their official merchandise t-shirt along with the words "I am a horror."

The Leningrad Cowboys, a band with foot-long quiff hairstyles and long Winklepicker shoes to match, are seeking success in Siberia, but nobody seems to like their music, except for the mute village idiot, Igor (Kari Väänänen).

Most of the looks - like pointy buckled "winklepicker" shoes with white socks, bolo ties, greased hair, red bandana neckscarves, sleeveless black leather and leopard jackets, as well as Slimane's signature skinny pants - produced no great fashion surprises.

Some of the British post-war street youths hanging around bombsites in urban areas and getting drawn into petty crime began to dress in a variation of the zoot suit style called a drape suit, with a country style bootlace tie, winklepicker shoes, drainpipe trousers, and Elvis Presley style slicked hair.