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From: Boi
Category: Life
Date: 25 August 2006
Time: 12:32 PM
Review:
Some one asked me if I thought that I was in a film or something. Well I bought these shoes second
hand and I like the look of them. I am told that they are like art students shoes - this is a criticism. I
don't mind this criticism and decided to wear them after many months of not, in place of my flip flops
as it was raining ("kitten" heels - I hate that description, disgusting cutesy word, so really they wouldn't
offer much protection to my feet, but I really do hate having wet feet). After only a few hours of striding
round London I was in sheer agony, desperate to get anything on my feet other than these nasty
painful things. I had to begin to try and separate my self from my pain to try and step out side my body
and it reminded me of when I modelled in central London in a park full of men, business men and
builders, and felt distinctly uncomfortable but tried to think of it as a separate, novel experience that I
could be mentally above. I tried to think about how nice the shoes looked to me - the particular red,
and thought of my sister who tells me that perhaps I feel more confident in trainers not because they
are more comfortable and make me feel less vulnerable, but because I feel more boy/man-ish in
them. I wondered if it was possible for me to feel more confident in these horrific shoes as they might
make me feel more confident as a female type person, but what ever might be described as feminine
in them, and how ever much I might want to be perceived as feminine in that particular way this could
not over ride the immense pain I experience with each step. I looked around me and marvelled at the
other women, many of whom were happily swinging down the street in real heels. Eventually I could
bare it no longer took them off and went bare foot until I found a discount shoe shop. Desmond Morris
thinks that women wear heels because it makes them sway more when they walk, emphasising their
hips.