Pointed boots of the city of Mexico Mutant create a buzz

The client knows that, as "Cesar of Huizache" had an odd request Shoemaker Dario Calderon: he showed her a picture of cell phone of a cowboy boot flakes pointed toes for so long, they curved upward to the knees. He wanted a pair, but most long toes.

"I thought" What's up with this dude? "Calderon said at his workshop in Matehuala, a Mexican town in the northeast of farmers and cattlemen who are accustomed to a more unflinching look of cowboy. The start of the photo measured 60 centimetres (23 inches) "but we made him a pair who were 90 centimetres (35 inches) long".

Human mystery of Huizache, a nearby village, was wearing his boots back to the Mesquit Rodeo nightclub, where he danced bandido style with a handkerchief hide his mouth and nose

"Dances and having a good time and it did not care that said the people around him, said Fernando Lopez, the master of ceremonies at the disco on the theme of Rodeo."

Then he disappeared.

The next thing that Calderon knew, it seemed like everyone wanted that weird, half-Aladdin, all-Vegas pointed boots, boys ceremony church teens in discotheques.

Calderon shaped toes elongated foam plastic and accused of 400 pesos ($34) for extensions. The competition began charging 350 pesos ($30) by 15 centimeters (6 inches) of the new toe.

In this photo taken Saturday, may 7, 2011, the dance crew "parranderos" waiting for the dance competition to begin in the disco of Matehuala Mesquit Rodeo, the Mexico. Dance crews were the first to embrace the flashy pointed boot-craze that swept the Mexican city of Matehuala, widespread in the cities nearby and even taken by migrants at the border, to the United States.

Boys who could not afford used water hoses to make their own. When added bejewelled butterflies, another is 5-foot-long toes and added multicolour glitter stripes. When the ends, other stars added flashing lights and balls disco, their parade on the dance floor to attract girls, as peacocks spreading their feathers.

"At the beginning I liked them much, but girls would not dance with you if you were not with pointy boots, said student Pascual Escobedo, 20, his own covered with stars hot pink satin and bejewelled."

No one knows where photo of Cesar or the fad had, as he was known to cross the back and forth between the Mexico and the United States. But a time that he has hit the city of 90,000 people and auto-partie and factories of clothes, about 18 months ago, it spread to the neighbouring villages and showed as far as the Mississippi, and Texas, where some DJs at nightclubs on the theme of rodeos said it reached a year ago and is now out of fashion.

"They would put all sorts of things on them, strobe lights, belt buckles and these red lights flashing when you step on the shoes," said Manuel Colim, a DJ at Corral in Dallas, Texas, to live many migrants Matehualan Far West.

Fad pointed boot coincided with a new fashion dance of oscillating, drawer-dropping troops dressed in consideration of the West and jeans shirts skinny to accentuate their shoes.

They dance in music "tribe", a mixture of pre-Columbian and African sounds mixed low fast cumbia and the rhythms of electro-house. Matehuala, boys teams are competing in the weekly danceoffs to four nightclubs that offer prizes of $ 100 to $ 500 and often a bottle of whisky.

The troops are so popular, they are hired to dance at the wedding for quinceaneras, celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe, bachelorette parties and even the Rosary ceremonies for the dead. A group, Los Parranderos or the Partiers, filmed a scene from marriage for "triunfo del amor", or "love triumph", a prime time soap opera on the Televisa network.