Comments on: There was a time…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:18:00 +0000

I had the same dislike for shoes when I was young. I spent the first 10 years of my life in a farm cottage in the bush and went everywhere barefoot until the soles of my feet turned to hard leather and my feet broadened. I was forced to wear shoes to school but the shoe shop in the nearest town was hard pressed to find any shoes wide enough for my feet. I got into trouble at school for removing my shoes and socks on more than one occasion.

I have heard of some women who constantly wear high heel shoes, even at home, are beset with serious pain in their achilles tendons when they stand barefoot.

Fashion and peer pressure have a lot to answer for.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:38:00 +0000

Now I hate being barefoot. I take after my father I guess as my mother didn’t mind a bit. I have always got something on my feet, even if its only flip flops. However, I have more or less given up on high heels. Nor do I wear much makeup any more although in my younger days I used to plaster myself in order to “Look good”. Isn’t it silly the things we do to be part of society?

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:49:00 +0000

Apparently if a woman is trying to avoid an unwanted pursuer, walking quickly in high heels is better than trying to run in flat soles or barefoot … something to do with less strain on the calf muscles, perhaps. I don’t know. It might be one of those things dreamed up by a man which sounds good in theory but doesn’t work too well in practice when a pervert is sprinting up behind you at speed. :

My mother always had the habit of running around barefoot, and my sister and I inherited it.

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:39:00 +0000

That’s weird. I thought Australians were better than most…*grin*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:30:00 +0000

I think that time is partially still here.

When my daughter went to school in Townsville, they seemed to have a sort of 'no-shoe' policy inside the school grounds. When I came to pick her up from school, there was this mountain of sandals just inside the door. Often, my daughter took home two left shoes of two vastly different sizes. May I add, too, that this was a supposedly 'exclusive' private school.

I always feel sorry for those women who can't go out the door without neat shoes and/or make-up. Last year, I attended an end-of-year picnic for my daughter's class, and all mothers except me and one other turned up in high heels and make-up. On the beach! I kid you not. It was stinking hot, too. None except me and said other mother went into the water.

Where did these women stop living? When did they start behaving like dowagers?
Baffles me.