The Midlife Shoe Dilemma

Shoes.  You can bet that the minute Oprah steps off-camera, she's stepping out of those miserably high heels.  Well, I don't really know this for a fact, BUT I do know that she publicly acknowledges that she went from a size 10 to a size 10 & 1/2 and her feet breathed a sigh of relief.  She auctioned them off for charity, and I sadly missed that bidding frenzy.  Oh, to have been the lucky winner of some of her Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks.  After all, I am still holding pretty steady at size 10...  But I have found that thousand dollar shoes do not automatically guarantee cushy comfort.  And I think it's beyond high time we call the shoe designers out for wrecking generations of women's feet.  My fervent wish is to see them forced to wear their own creations, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a minimum year sentence with no parole.  My guess is there would be a revolution in the women's shoe industry.  It would hurt our economy, cause us to lose jobs, damage the health care industry and make podiatrists nervous.  My kind of revolution.

Comments

[Cheryl Stone]

How timely this was for me. I am on a three-day shopping spree with my daughter, who has no trouble putting her size 7.5-8 foot into almost anything out there - from PayLess to Foot Locker to Nine West to Steve Maddens, all the while making cute comments like, "No, really mom, they are SUPER comfortable" while wearing sky high heels and gladiator straps. I,on the other hand, with my size 10-10.5 (W) if I can find them (and I haven't been able to) have been incredibly sad all my life over the fact that I cannot find a decent looking pair of shoes to fit my foot to save my life. I don't care if they're "come get me" stilettos, I just want something to FIT!!!

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