[pct-l] Foot Expansion

[Lindsey Sommer]

But, what about these?

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/11/hiking-the-runway-teva-high-he.php

My boyfriend, fully knowing that I will never wear high heels, thought this
could be a great compromise (or not).


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:16 AM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

> Cat Nelson <sagegirl51 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> >I'd like to know who invented high heals and shoot them. They make no
> sense
> >to me and yet women wear them. Why?
>
> >From Wikipedia:
>
> Some trace the high heel to horse riders in the Near East who used high
> heels for functionality, because they helped hold the rider's foot in
> stirrups
>
> "In 1533, after men had already started wearing heels again, the
> diminutive Italian wife of Henry II, King of France, Queen Catherine de'
> Medici, commissioned a cobbler to fashion her a pair of heels, both for
> fashion and to suggest greater height." She wanted to look taller but all
> of those in her court saw them as a fashion statement and they all started
> wearing them.
>
> Incidentally, if any of you get to see Cheryl Strayed talk you will get to
> see her stylish high heeled hiking boots. She got a compliment from a young
> woman in the audience about them. Although Cheryl says she calls them her
> Book Tour shoes and uses them for no other purpose, let's hope that the
> 2013 hikers don't act like the court of de' Medici and pick up the fashion
> on the PCT. They can give new meaning to the term, "a well turned ankle."
>
> TrailHacker
>
> --
> "When my feet hurt, I take off my high heeled hikers"
> Abraham Lincoln
>
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