These Tables Won’t Cost an Arm but Maybe Your Legs
Instagram’s pointless updates and video-focused initiative is undoubtedly annoying, but I still have a love for the platform’s ability to put me on to new things.
Not a day goes by where I don’t stumble across a new food recipe — which I’ll happily bookmark but never cook — or a crazy new fashion product.
I try to expect the unexpected on Instagram, especially after stumbling across a YEEZY FOAM mask and Brian Downey’s hat made of beans (?). However, nothing could’ve prepared me for my latest discovery: leg tables.
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To be clear, I’m talking about makeshift legs dressed in IRL trousers and footwear complete with a round table top. The name of this wild product? Simply, the boot-legs table.
While I’m stuck between fearfully covering my eyes and wanting one for my living space, I can’t deny that the boot-leg table is very tongue-in-cheek.
Tables are usually held up by metal or wood legs rather than terrifying yet drippy recreations of people’s lower limbs, which actually isn’t a new thing. Just ask Pintrest and Hannah Montana.
Rick Owens even got leg up — more like a body up — on the competition, turning himself into a table.
PSA I just discovered that Young & Hungry used the same leg table from Hannah Montana!! Okay carry on pic.twitter.com/O6KNXjrdmO
— B ✨ (@becca_lynn05) September 7, 2018
Where exactly on Instagram did I find the boot-legs tables? Why, none other than the Instagram account cleverly named “Pitter Patter,” aka the sound made by tiny feet or light footsteps.
Scrolling through the feed, I was greeted by 49 posts of boot-leg tables, pieces an Instagram commenter called “something you’d find cleaning out your great grandma’s house.”
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An Osiris D3 table, inspired by Toy Story‘s Sid, caught the NY subway. In another post, a sneaker table featuring pink trousers and a fur leopard top posted up on a block.
Surprisingly, leg-tables aren’t the wildest thing you’ll see on the NY streets.
The Brooklyn-based studio even hilariously recreated Lil Baby‘s green Supreme and Balenciaga x Crocs boots look, using mom-adjacent rain boots, distressed white moto jeans, and New York Yankee green top.
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In March, the brand launched its first boot-legs table drop: classic suit trousers and leather boots finished with a tree trunk slice.
In just six months, the boot-leg tables has bewildered and intrigued Instagram simultaneously, in addition to infiltrating the NFT space.
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Nonetheless, the boot-legs tables seem to be a hit amongst a few NY kitschy decor heads, as the furniture is sold out on the brand’s website.
However, the brand is currently accepting commissions on its website for bespoke 26 in-tall boot-legs tables for $300, clothing and shoes not included.
With the brand’s fanbase slowly growing, interested buyers may want to shake a leg as only five commission spots are open.
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