Two observations on footwear in NYC:

1) the 90s are so back — chucks, doc martens, sambas, clogs, dad sneakers, etc

2) narrow toe boxes prevail

The latter is not ideal when earthing isn’t possible — you should at least let the toes splay in wide toe boxes. For now, appearance >>> health when it comes to footwear

I’m one of those people that wore vibram five fingers 15 years ago 

I credit them with helping me run pain free again

Toe spacers also worthwhile 

Modern shoes all suck and I will basically only wear sandals, boat shoes, and shoes with a wide toebox now and am barefoot as much as possible when home

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The foot is an incredible work of art, and to stuff it in a shoe is one of the more retarded decisions we never recovered from (in many ways similar to pasteurizing milk -- a remnant of a bygone era)

BTW, I used to wear Vibrams too, but my daily driver is now Earth Runners. Next best thing to barefoot imo

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oh nice - I wear a pair of Xeros that are basically like Vans-lookalikes with zero drop and a wide toebox which is really great for most daily stuff

I def need to cop a pair of earth runners too it seems

Love xeros — I have this pair 

I find the toebox more narrow than ideal (prefer altra toeboxes)

Overall I try to wear earth runners whenever possible and fallback to altras or xeros

I have that pair too (for running)

It is kind of insane to go back to normal footwear after you wear this stuff for an extended period of time