I’ve just bought what must be my most comfortable of shoes ever. They’re made by Ecco and feel like trainers (and smell like trainers too, on a hot day!). But they look cute. I can walk for miles in them, without socks, and they feel like I’ve got slippers on.
A friend sent me these photos of the latest shoe craze to hit Japan, and I just had to share them with you. They can’t be comfortable to walk in, surely?
Feel better? … now look at the kind of ’shoes’ that was worn back in the day of the Geisha… I can’t imagine…
May 11, 2008 at 11:24 pm |
The shoes you illustrate on the older woman are called lotus shoes and they originate in China. It was considered an “honor” for wealthy women; and if poor women could get their feet down to three inches, a way out of poverty and attractive to a wealthy suiter. Lotus shoes originated as a sort of disgusting foot fetish where men would copulate between the area between the heel and broken toes.
The other shoes that you have in this post that look like toe shoes on heels, I saw on Trend Hunter as fetish shoes.
This all would make an interesting post. Do you mind if I use your pictures? I’ll put a link in to your site as my source.
May 12, 2008 at 5:32 pm |
Go ahead.
Thanks for the corrections & extra info – these photos had been sent to me by email so I don’t know the source.
May 14, 2008 at 7:43 pm |
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June 12, 2008 at 8:34 am |
Suppressive foot-binding — it only seems natural for western women to embrace, having already eaten up the other absurd eastern vogues: astrological charts, chakras, and yoga.