Brothel creeper
Brothel creeper. “In the late 1950s, these shoes were taken up by the Teddy Boys along with drainpipe trousers, draped jackets, bolo ties, quiff and pompadour haircuts, and velvet or electric blue clothes. [...] Self-made brothel creepers were picked up by the Soviet subculture stilyagi (rus. стиляги) in the mid 1950s. They were called ‘ботинки на манной каше’, literally men’s ‘shoes on semolina’, because they used to call the thick crepe sole ‘semolina’.”
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