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Get to the Pointy Toe
February 1, 2006 at 9:30 am by Designer EllaRemember when shoes were supposed to fit? We were little girls, and stylish meant Mary Janes when youngest and sneakers, when a little older. Your mum or the store clerk would push down on your toe, after trying on a pretty pair. If you yelped in always-surprised pain, then it meant you would outgrow the shoe too quickly. A good fit meant room to breathe, room for freedom.
Today, we still prefer toe room, but in the form of points, with yet narrow and ever-narrowing sides. Pointy-toed shoes. Often the torture device, yet sometimes still “doable“. Our adult shoes, today, leave no consideration for realistic lifestyles.
And still we love shoes. We especially like buying new shoes. No one pokes at us any longer. We have the legs to show off struts in the mirror, and feel high while heels seem to float us across the carpeted rows of stands and seats. And — and our credit cards always seem so forgiving at the register. Then we breeze out of the stores, on an energetic high; we can carry any amount of bags, a coat, and do a little more walking to ensure our designer purse is seen. Retail therapy is real, and lasts through surveying our catch once in our bedrooms.
Ah, yes. Then, when these shoes meet reality and test uncomfortable, they stay as displays on shelves in our closets.
But we still love them.
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