[pct-l] Foot Expansion

[Cat Nelson]

OMG... Ouch!!!
On Feb 4, 2013 10:03 AM, "Lindsey Sommer" <lgsommer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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