Pointed shoe

Throughout the history of footwear, shoes or fashion boots with very long, pointed toes have been favored at various periods and in various cultures or sub-cultures. These have included:

• Crakows or Poulaines - (15th- and 16th-century Europe).
• Winklepickers - 1960s to present, Britain and Germany.
• Mexican pointy boots - 21st-century Mexico and southern United States.