How to Make Duct Tape Feet a Part of Your Next NYC Road Trip and Madison Square Garden Adventure

Do duct tape feet qualify as shoes? My almost 17-year-old son, Max, needed to know.

We were driving (really, I, was driving and they were riding, but the royal we endures) from Boston to NYC to get Max and friend, Mike, to their 13th row seats in the must-see, last-ever Dispatch concert. Max and Mike are both too young to know that Dispatch, like Cher and every other performer on earth, WILL be back on stage again in one form of the original band or another sooner than later. It was not worth deflating their excitement over the final extravaganza, so I was the kindly volunteer chauffeur for this musical adventure.

At the time that this Rules about The Wearing of Shoes conversation began, we were about two hours away from our NYC destination - urban jungle driving home stretch. Max was insisting that NYC stores and restaurants or managers of say, Madison Square Garden, would most certainly make the obvious distinction between shoes required on feet (as in visible human skin and bones feet) and shoes required on duct tape feet.

Yes. Duct tape feet. You read correctly. What are duct tape feet exactly, you ask, and WHY are we discussing them?

WHAT! You are not aware of this latest teen boy adventure fashion! I am shocked.

NOT.

I am an open-minded chauffeuring Mother of teen boy type. It takes much, much less to shock me than it used to.

Duct tape feet are, as the name suggests, feet disguised, covered, decorated, suffocated, strangled, smothered, wrapped in, you guessed it, duct tape. Please feel free to choose whatever action verb you might prefer since this fashion statement most definitely involves prolonged, focused, repetitive action by said teenage boys to create the desired duct tape feet fashion.

A pair of shiny gray teen guy duct tape feet created en route to recent NYC Dispatch concert.

Credit: Christine Tetreault

Copyright: Christine Tetreault