Weighing In: Jazz Shoes

Let's be really blindingly honest here. It pains us that we need to write about jazz shoes. Pain of the physical sort. Picture the pain you might feel when watching oh say Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School. What? Oh no, just kidding. We don't watch that. (We may, however, Love New York...)

We've seen many a disturbing thing in our lifetimes. Things that get our little judgemental minds all in a tizzy. Things like pleated pants.

While we can wholly endorse jazz hands and, even their cute little sister, spirit fingers (not to mention their accompanying Bring It On trilogy), but this is really upsetting us.



Jazz shoes... why or how they entered popular culture in the first place is an incredible mystery to us... and this is coming from someone with a bit of a dance background. Picture PT & Bets stride-leap-stepping across the hardwood waxy floor at McDowell School of Dance... so we can appreciate jazz shoes for what they are... split-soled non-street shoes made to leap across a freshly waxed hardwood surface and not leave black scuffs. They are not, however, for everyday-wear. Before you ask, you're not being refreshingly ironic by wearing jazz shoes outside of your "one-my-way-dance-class-and-on-my-way-back" routine. We also know that most of you are not Debbie Allen. You're not fooling anyone, you're just being inappropriate, and not just a little silly.

I think the message here is simple. If you're wearing jazz shoes and you're not doing this:



We really can't help you.

You're welcome.