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Originally Posted by C0LLETTE
The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto is a must for anyone who thinks they "know shoes".
It's remarkable; a true treat for shoe-lovers; the history of "shoes" from prehistoric times; Chinese foot-bnding; the fashions through the European Renaissance; the weirdness of our beloved Sixties; basically everything humans decided to wear on their feet to protect them form sharp stones and scorpions to turning "foot protection" into-class defined fashion.
And a lot about what you wear now and who got you there.
Think you know shoes? Go there and see how we got to where we got. It's such interesting fun.
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that's very cool, C0LLETTE! I would like to visit that place one day, and I'm thinking too, that it would be VERY interesting. Right on!!!
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Originally Posted by C0LLETTE
So here's my thing, not a single pair of shoes I've see here in the last 10 or so posts would survive a single Winter in Eastern Canada....maybe not even late Fall and def not early Spring.
Here, fashion takes a far far back seat to keeping your toes from freezing off and accommodating triple layer wool socks that wick sweat.
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I'm an Birkenstock and PF Flyer kind of girl. I have a few pair of stiletto heels, bit wear them on special occasion only. The last time I wore any still etc heels was for an job interview on campus, a couple years ago or even further back, I wore my purple Alligator stiletto heels for my Graduate Master's commencement.
For work, I usually wear an
Black steel toed low cut women's leather shoe, which is called an
Georgia Boot Romeo. The fit like a glove, protect my toes from injury, and they're weather proof. They last an long time, but they're not cheap. My last pair was about $120 .....
LINK:
http://www.georgiaboot.com/romeos/