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I guess pointed toe shoes for women have a long history. This image is from Karen's Whimsey Public Domain Images. How on earth do we allow ourselves to by hypnotized into thinking shoes like these are fashionable?

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head." Henry David Thoreau

When I was younger, I had always been reluctant to have pedicures. I have always been self-conscious of these size 10 boats. But once I took the plunge, I came to enjoy having someone else take care of them for me, especially in the summer sandal season.

This was a recent entry for Illustration Friday.

My grandmother’s feet always hurt her. She wore a 6 triple E shoe and had bunions. Her feet had become mis-shapen due—to years of wearing pointy toe shoes in the 1920s and 30s. When I was a child, I was both fascinated and scared by her feet. I had my own flirtation with pointy toe shoes, but the image of my grandmother’s deformed feet always stayed with me. Is it my imagination or is this generation’s crop of pointy toe shoes the absolute worst?