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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: High heels (was Re: What is attractive to women?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.114754.28288@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1992Nov18.051430.11930@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <5755@jptcs.COM> <1eiplqINNkcd@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 11:47:54 GMT
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- In article <1eiplqINNkcd@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
- >
- >As for myself, I simply find most dress shoes -- even low-heeled pumps --
- >far too painful to wear. Does *anybody* really have feet shaped like
- >that?
-
- Of course not--but, Sandra, you know that it would be more of a faux pas
- for a clothing designer to take human dimensions into account than it
- would be for a philosopher to look in a horse's mouth. Designers came
- up with the idea that shoes should be pointed in the middle because they
- decided that was what feet *should* look like--and they responded to the
- frustration expressed by people whose feet weren't pointed in the middle
- by putting the shoes up on a slope so that enough pressure would be
- applied to their feet to make them pointed in the middle.
-
- Trygve (Later, they went on to create the "law" of clothing design that
- people larger than Michael J. Fox wear only plaid polyester and
- that people with larger waistlines have the same size thighs as
- people with smaller waistlines.)
-