Quoting Deli_kizin: Im not a Turkish woman, but what I can say for girls in İzmir, they mostly wear sportive shoes! Vans and Converse Allstar seem to have reached to Turkey too and they are in shops and on feet everywhere.
Ofcourse there are also lots of lady-like shoes and I can say that those shoes are pretty expensive for Turkish standards. On the other hand, though in Holland I would pay the same for that type of shoe, I would get less quality. There are loads of pumps and shoes with high heels available, and there are quite a lot stylish shoe-shops with quality leather shoes.
In the Turkish wedding-culture or party-culture, there seems to be a fetish for golden or silver colored open shoes with high and small heels. I for myself think they look horrible and cheap, but you can see them in many many small shoeshops, sold in variable prices from unaffordable to REALLY cheap. I always wondered when one would wear such a footwear, as you dont see them often on the streets, but I was told they are used for weddings or parties. After that I have seen them being worn on a kına-gecesi.
Apart from these golden-silver party-shoes, there is not a significant difference in the fashion for shoes between Holland and Turkey. Sometimes I have actually had the feeling Turkey is just a bit ahead when it comes to fashion, compared to Holland.
Mayokinis were introduced in Turkey something like 2 years ago, none of my Dutch friends had heard of it last summer and this summer I spotted the first one here. The red shiny shoes you see in Dutch shops now, I have seen in Turkey already at the end of last summer. |
