An article about shoes, feet and going barefoot

[rhythmia]

I was link hopping and read a fascinating article today, "You Walk Wrong" in New York Magazine, here: http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/

First off- the trompe l'oeil pictures of shoes painted on people's bare feet were cooooool. :D

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[rhythmia]

Halloooo! *careful glomp*

Ahh, you're no help. :P I pretty much refused point blank as a child to wear any shoes that weren't sneakers or didn't have straps of some sort. But I'm kinda stuck with my work shoes. Over the course of the last year I've more or less got the hang of walking in them, but I still often have the situation where the back hem of my pant legs get caught in my shoes when my heels come back down into the shoes. ^^;;; orz Maybe I need to sacrifice some pigeons or squirrels?

Hmmm, moccasins. I may have to look into those. or the flat black ballet/martial arts shoes that people mentioned in the comments for working in, something that breathes better than my work flats.

Also, it strikes me as kind of weird that that person told you to leave your shoes on. Well, they didn't force me. But in several homes I've asked if it's a shoes on or a shoes off house, and I've been told, keep them on, keep them on! Because the floor's cold, or dirty, or whatever whatever and it's weird to them that I want to be barefoot. (well, they don't say the last bit, haha) My house is a shoes off house, personally, and my friends have been trained to toe off their shoes, but we've always let people know that it's not an issue if they prefer to keep their shoes on, especially for the guests just dropping in briefly. And then my grandma goes and scrubs at the carpet after they leave. XD

Heel taps! My mom used to have them on her work pumps, little plastic bits with little tiny nails pushed into the old heel. I asked my mom about them tonight, and it turns out that she didn't buy them. My other grandma would cannibalize the rubber soles off my and my brother's old sneakers and cut out pieces. Traditional craftsmanship, hehe. So you could try that, and I think Payless and other shoe stores might have something like that (I don't know if there's Payless shoe stores out where you are, though).