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Question : Does anyone know if male or female feet have different shapes ? I have real problems with wearing women's shoes, they don't fit properly, unless it's strapped on, they fall off. Slingbacks don't stay on.

Very frustrating. And the blisters......I am a martyr to them.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 03:05:03 PM EST
It seems that they do. GENDER DIFFERENCES IN FOOT SHAPE from Germany has some details.
The findings of this study demonstrate differences between gender regarding important anatomical measurements of the  foot. Women have narrower feet in the heel and forefoot region and their instep height is also lower than in men. For these  measures, lasts for women's shoes cannot only be a downscaled version of those for men's shoes. For the same given shoe  size, women need narrower shoes with a smaller instep height in comparison to men.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 03:49:03 PM EST
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Another empty OT.

Cor blimey, the Ghost of OT Past!

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 04:05:36 PM EST
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Always the same on Saturdays.
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 06:10:33 PM EST
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All the cool kids are hanging out at other places than computerscreens, doing infinitesimal more interesting things.

Like, scrabble. And we won again, go team!

Sigh.

"What did you do during your time in Johannesburg?"
"Play scrabble and boast about it on-line."

And I'm supposed to be the old one in this house... What is it with these young dogs? I feel like DoDo now.

I'm going to stick my rubber ducks to the ceiling again. They came off.

Oh woe.

</talking to myself>

by Nomad on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 07:58:15 PM EST
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Meh, we're the cool kids.  Everybody else is just jealous.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?
by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 08:36:43 PM EST
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i wondered when ET was going to get a euro equivalent of chingchongchinaman's 'saturday night losers' club' on dkos!

"These days, there's nothing more ridiculous than the truth." Leonard Pitts Jr
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 09:40:34 AM EST
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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.

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
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.

"These days, there's nothing more ridiculous than the truth." Leonard Pitts Jr

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