The word may sound strange to you but then again, maybe you've seen a pair of shoes hanging from a telephone line once in the city?

This is Shoefiti, which is of course a word made from the word shoe and fiti (like graffiti). It is a like a type of 'air graffiti. Originally it comes from the USA, where gangs used to hang shoes up on lines to show where one gang's territory began and ended.

However, hanging shoes from a wire can also mean a wedding or graduations. They also say in some places in the US that it's best to hang some shoes from the branches of a tree so that when a spirit comes back to earth it doesn't go barefoot. 

Nowadays shoefiti is just a fad and you will see shoes hanging from many city street lines. Shoefiti is now a form of self expression although some people find it to just be vandalism.