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What I'd bet on is that even if they are supposed to be similar, growing up wearing boy or girl shoes - which are probably of different shapes - will differentially impact the feet. Feet are quite malleable (see the extreme small feet of some Chinese women a few centuries ago), and if you adapted them to what is considered a "male" shape by shoemakers, it's going to be hard to change them to a "female" shape.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 08:30:20 PM EST
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i think it would be a lot easier the other way round, not that that helps helen much...

you'll have to start a new chick fashion for 'sensible brogues' or something. (don't we have special regular diaries for this here?

helen i bet massage would help. or maybe bovver boots. maybe they're not in style for women any more...they sure were last time i was blighty-side.

my poor mother had amazingly deformed feet from high heels and shoes with winkle-picker front-ends.

they're coming back in italy, murderous looking things they are too.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 09:46:14 AM EST
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