Personal opinion only...!
This kind of reminds me of the way certain birds and small rodents are attracted to shiny objects, collecting bits of glass and chewing gum wrappers, etc..
Colour aside, there is a certain indifference embodied in the way this pair of shoes has been put together that suggests it was a waste of the alligator to even make the shoes.
The quarters are cut from the tail which is relatively poor quality leather and stiff and very different from the rest of the hide--considered waste by most savvy makers. And the tail...where the tiles are all square and regular...has been so thoughtlessly mishandled that the tile pattern on the facings is mismatched both for size and location.
No attempt has been made to match the leather from which the toe caps have been cut--the right is comprised of square tiles, the left of round(ish) tiles), and so little effort expended to align the tiles that the lines of tile separation run right down the middle of the toe on one shoe and off to the medial side on the other shoe.
And the alligator in the waist of the shoe is cosmetic nonsense--it's like a schmear of lipstick on a pig--it doesn't make the pig look any better.
Edited by DWFII - 12/4/11 at 9:32am
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