New Contenders in the Hunt for the World's Worst Shoes

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Christian Louboutin's white net platforms might be a little hard to look at, and Giuseppe Zanotti's gold shoes with giant dollar-sign decals might be in questionable taste, but one Racked reader thinks she's finally zeroed in on the ugliest shoes of all time. She writes:

You recently did a post on the ugliest white shoe ever, from Louboutin. It wasn't great, I agree. But I think I might've found something a hundred times uglier. Someone is REALLY going to wear this? REALLY?

Free People calls these babies "Floral Slouch Clogs," three words that just simply do not belong in the same sentence.
· World's Ugliest [Racked NY]
· Bad Shoe or Worst Shoe: Zanotti Crystal Dollar Sign Sandal [Racked NY]
· Floral Slouch Clog [Free People]