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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Body Image, High Heels and All...
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 18:44:09 EDT
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> If women *truly* didn't want to wear such shoes they wouldn't buy
> them and if they didn't buy them the vendors would begin selling
> something that they *would* buy.
> 
That's nice in theory.  Except that if women didn't buy these shoes,
they'd end up *barefeet*.  It IS VERY VERY (ok, another one..) VERY
hard to find shoes which do not have high heels and are half-way
decent-looking.  I haven't been able to find any yet. 

Well, actually, there are some available these days, because of market
pressure from "OOWW! TTOES", "the Organisation Of Women Whose third toe
(from either side!) is 2 inches longer Than The OthErS".
Unfortunately, nature has not allowed me membership in such a
prestigious organisation, so I've been left out in the cold once
again.

What do I do, you ask?   HAHA!  I saw this coming a long time ago, so
when chinese shoes were a big thing, I went around Chinatowns stocking
up, and I now have over 50 pairs in all sorts of colours and textures.
They don't look as dressy as high-heeled shoes that other women wear
and my mother still doesn't think that I look like a real lady, but I
never claimed to be one anyway, so there!
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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