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Here in the eCool Compound, we spend a lot of time thinking about shoes.  Thus, when a kind soul alerted us to the fact that Zazzle allows you to design and market your own personal Kids, we were intrigued.  Though a brief survey in the Compound suggests that no one on the eCool team has slipped a Ked on their foot at least since college, we navigated on over to Zazzle and begin to browse.

We were intrigued by the wackiness of the selection and began to fixate on certain themes near and dear to our eCool hearts.  It was a Dante kind-of day (the Inferno, not the Paradiso) and so we did a search for Dante shoes expecting that the search engine would turn up a great big zero.  Boy were we wrong!  There are lots of Dante shoes being designed these days and though we can’t possibly purport to understand what might make someone want to wear the poet on their foot, we do admit to developing a slightly perverse fascination with the idea.

Thus, today, we bring your our Dante shoe picks.  We don’t know what kind of shoes the poet preferred, but it’s easy enough to imagine that he would have enjoyed the opportunity to slide his tired feet into some sneakers during his long journey.  Perhaps he would have chosen a pair that featured his portrait, like those shown above, from Rick London’s collection of Love Quote shoes. They feature an image of Dante on the top panel and on each side panel is one of his most famous love quotes in Italian and English: Love that moves the sun and other stars.

Or, perhaps the poet would have shod his tender toes with the Dante’s Inferno Spookhouse model shown below (though the shoe comes in sizes suitable only for women and children).  The front panel has a photograph of a horrible monster taken by Liza Dey at the Dante’s Inferno Spookhouse at the Astroland Amuseument Park on Coney Island.