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Lose the Pointy Shoes, Guys

December 21, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Melissa Clouthier
Eleemosynary
2008-12-21 11:34:23

I seldom look at a men’s shoes altho I often look at women’s and wonder at their ability at (and insistence on) sticking a size 8 foot into a size 4 shoe. – it doesn’t make them more attractive…it makes them look like they’re about to topple over.

(Personally, I prefer and admire the not-so-ancient Chinese custom of “binding the feet”. It was a sign of wealth if your women had to crawl around the house not being able to do anything for themselves….the implication being that you had servants doing all the work.)

But most women in the US now wear -for everyday use- what I guess is called “athletic shoes”….you know…those sort of technology enhanced tennis shoes. They all look like they’re going jogging or just come back from a trek somewhere. And so many of these pseudo-athletes past a certain age have horrific verricose veins.

I mean, if women won’t pretty themsleves up, I guess men will have to do it. Someone’s gotta look “attractive”.