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Kinky boots are boots that are intended for, or by some people connected to, shoe fetishism, and thus a form of fetish clothing. The term is ambiguous, since what can be considered kinky by some can be seen as elegant and trendy by others. It is most connected with the thigh-high boot as worn, for example, in the film Pretty Woman and by Madonna on the 2004 Re-Invention tour. This page explains the term and the boot styles it overlaps — thigh-high boots, go-go boots and riding boots.
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The thigh-high boot is the garment at the centre of this term, and it has never belonged to one world. As footwear it is a practical height — over-the-knee boots began as riding and military boots — and as fashion it returns in cycles, worn with short skirts in the 1960s, in film costume, and on pop tours, each time as a bold but mainstream style. The word kinky records the other reading: within shoe fetishism, high boots, especially in leather with high heels, are a standard focus, and boots made for that market are cut higher, tighter and glossier than fashion versions.
That overlap is why this definitions section treats kinky boots under both footwear and fetish clothing. The construction questions are footwear questions — shaft height, heel, material, fastening — while the category question is one of intent and styling. The related terms follow the same split: go-go boots are the white, low-heeled fashion boot of the 1960s dance floor; thigh-high boots are the height category itself; stiletto heels, platform footwear and high heels are the components from which the fetish and fashion versions alike are built.
Kinky boots are boots intended for, or connected by some people to, shoe fetishism, and thus a form of fetish clothing. The term most often refers to thigh-high boots.
The term is ambiguous since what can be considered kinky by some can be seen as elegant and trendy by others; the same thigh-high boot appears in mainstream fashion, film costume and fetish clothing.
Related styles are the thigh-high boot, which the term most often describes, and the go-go boot, the fashionable boot of the 1960s; riding boots are the functional boot from which many styles derive.