Kinky Boots

Provocative leather stilettos

Kinky Boots refers to fetish footwear—typically tall, tight-fitting boots in patent leather or vinyl, often with exaggerated heels or platform soles, associated with BDSM or risqué fashion.

The term gained mainstream recognition from the 2005 British film and subsequent Broadway musical about a failing shoe factory that pivots to making fetish footwear for drag queens.

Outside these specific references, kinky boots describes any provocatively styled boots suggesting sexual adventurousness: She showed up in kinky boots and a leather jacket.

Related

Broadway · West End · Tony Award · musical · Lola · heel · latex · dominatrix · sex appeal · fishnet · haute couture · patent · thigh-high · cabaret · glam · sequins · factory · shoe factory

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Opposites
footwear style and sexual connotation

Kinky Bootsorthopedic shoes

Footwear for foot problems

loafers · nursing shoes · oxfords · walking shoes · penny loafers

cultural stance on gender and sexuality

Kinky Bootsconversion therapy

Practice targeting sexual identity

heteronormativity · conformity · traditional values · repression · closetedness

theatrical tone and style (as a musical)

Kinky BootsOklahoma!

State-named stage musical

Fiddler on the Roof · Our Town

Family

kink, kinky, kinks, kinked, kinking, kinkiness, kinkier, kinkiest, boot

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG