Weird Aquariums – The Disco Goldfish Shoes
This one was popular during the 1970′s on the heels of trends disco dancers, not to mention on the feet of the pimp in “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka”
Goldfish Shoes from I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
A disco goldfish shoe? Imagine a real live goldfish, within the heel, or within the heel and the sole of a high-heeled platform shoe. The heel and sole in disco goldfish shoes are made from a transparent material, such as acrylic glass, that allows you to see the goldfish, and unfortunately also allows the goldfish to see all the psychedelic lights, not to mention the floor shooting up at it at rather terrifying speeds. Don’t know about the dancer, but I doubt of the fish would have survived even one dance.
In such a confined place as the heel of disco goldfish shoes, it is hard to know which problem that actually kills the fish first – suffocation or shock – but goldfish will die very soon after being inserted in disco goldfish shoes.
Thankfully, these days, the fashionistas have to make do with artificial goldfishes.
Unfortunately, I could only find a very blurry image.
Wow, porr little fishies!
I think this is an urban legend because everybody has heard about them, but nobody has ever seen a pair, or knows a guy who had a pair. I didn’t hear about them until at least the 90′s, and I’ve been trying to find out how they fed the fish since then. The picture you’ve got is from a movie. It’s riduculous enough to give me a good laugh every once in a while.
P. S. And think about it. PETA or WWF(World Wildlife Fund) or whatever animal rights activist group was around back then-remember the footage of the helpless baby seal being clubbed to death?-would have been all over the manufacturer of those shoes. Urban Myth.