uncomfortable nuisance
May. 14th, 2008 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleI go to a fair amount of trouble to avoid wearing uncomfortable shoes. (In places where women use shoes to signal "I am dressing up" or "I am taking this event seriously," I can confuse people who pay attention to these things, because my shoe wardrobe goes up to Marginally Acceptable and then stops, despite generous offers to buy me more formal or fashionable shoes. On the other foot, where the shoe-code is being used to signal, "Don't worry, I'm really a nice girl trying to follow polite gender norms even if I sometimes need to work among men in jeans and no makeup," I don't go along with it and there's no confusion at all.)
The shoes I wear with my interview suit have a very low heel and the toes aren't pointed. They don't pinch anywhere, and they don't give me blisters. I can walk a mile or so in them, and often have. They aren't padded like modern walking shoes, but they have more padding than the tennis shoes I wore in the '70s. I remember reading that bit of _Dandelion Wine_ and going to the front hall to try to see where the magic could be in something almost as ordinary and familiar as my own feet.
I've noticed a problem when I wear my dress shoes for more than an hour or so, or when I walk or drive a significant distance in them. It's not that they hurt while I'm wearing them. It's that I get deep, painful, cracks in my heels afterwards. I don't know if it's the shoes or the nylons (well, nylon knee-highs. But it's all the same at heel level) or body position or some combination. But I don't like it a bit.
The shoes I wear with my interview suit have a very low heel and the toes aren't pointed. They don't pinch anywhere, and they don't give me blisters. I can walk a mile or so in them, and often have. They aren't padded like modern walking shoes, but they have more padding than the tennis shoes I wore in the '70s. I remember reading that bit of _Dandelion Wine_ and going to the front hall to try to see where the magic could be in something almost as ordinary and familiar as my own feet.
I've noticed a problem when I wear my dress shoes for more than an hour or so, or when I walk or drive a significant distance in them. It's not that they hurt while I'm wearing them. It's that I get deep, painful, cracks in my heels afterwards. I don't know if it's the shoes or the nylons (well, nylon knee-highs. But it's all the same at heel level) or body position or some combination. But I don't like it a bit.
