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[red_mct]

What kind of shoes are you all buying this season? I am particularly interested in your toes: are they round or pointy? I LOVE my pointy-toed shoes and have long resisted trends in other directions, but the round ones are everywhere.... my mother even bought them. Should I cave? Have you?

Marie

PS: Maybe if Tyra did a show on shoes, I'd watch. }( }(

 

[Miss Lee]

Stacy and Clinton on WNTW say that you should wear pointy toes unless you have really big feet, in which case you should wear rounded toe.

I love shoes but could cry every time I try to buy them. I have a high arch and instep, and mortosn toe (where the second toe is longer than the big toe). Just mkes it he!! to buy shoes. ;( ;(

Michele

 

[toastythemosty]

Oh, I would not want anyone to see my toes. They are boney and long. LOL! No way would they look good in a open toe style! I hide them in a rounded toe style.

Charlotte~~

 

[SRP]

Round, wide toes. I don't care about fashion. My feet simply won't tolerate anything that even hints at being narrow.

 

[CurlyQ]

I really think it depends on what you're wearing. I have both and tend to wear the pointed ones with dressy jeans and the rounded toe with skirts/dresses. I like the rounded toe under jeans too but I have a few pairs of jeans that are long so I like the pointy toe to poke out a little...strange, I know. I say go with both!!}(

 

[sparrow]

My feet and toes are pretty hideous - my all time favorite shoes are my black Dansko backed clogs. Comfy, supportive, and I can wear them with anything except formal. I actually have black, brown and red. When I do go fancy I wear round toed low heels.

I also love boots of any kind.

Sparrow

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[Dani53]

Where I live the "season" is snow and ice. I would kill myself in anything pointy, and though I love my Dansko's, there is not enough traction and they have caused me to slip more than once.

I'm afraid the only thing I get to look forward to is my green Sorels I think that Stacy and Clinton (whom I LOVE and ADORE...huge crush on Clinton regardless...) would have a hey-day with me. I am the epitome of "What Not to Wear"....sadly!

 

[kathryn]

I always buy rounded-toed shoes, even if they aren't that much in style. The pointed-toed shoes look like medieval torture devices to me! I will probably be adding to my collection of Earth shoes.

(According to our secretary, who wears lots of the pointy-toed ones, you have to get ones that start narrowing in after your toes. If I did that, my feet would look HUGE! Like Margaret Hamilton in the Wizard of Oz!)

 

[kathryn]

>Oh, I would not want anyone to see my toes. They are boney
>and long. LOL! No way would they look good in a open toe
>style! I hide them in a rounded toe style.
>


FYI: Jennifer Love Hewitt has really gnarly toes. I saw a photo in the most prestigeous "Star" magazine (I love to see those "beautiful people' looking bad! Cellulite-ridden stars! Stars with love handles! Stars with nasty feet! Bring 'em on!)

 

[Bunbun]

<<My feet and toes are pretty hideous - my all time favorite shoes are my black Dansko backed clogs. Comfy, supportive, and I can wear them with anything except formal. I actually have black, brown and red. When I do go fancy I wear round toed low heels.>>

LOL, Sparrow. I have the same sort of shoe collection--black Dansko backed clogs--one pair in black and one really badly worn pair in brown; plus one pair with a strap-back, in red for the summer. Oh, and an old pair of blue backless ones that are so badly worn out that I wear them only in the house. Do you think I'm obsessed? !

I do have one pair of semi-pointy heels (1 inch), but they kill my feet and knees so I rarely wear them. I need shoes for really dressing up, since my life has changed recently and I actually get a chance to dress up at times. Am thinking of getting something pointy, but if they hurt or I can't really walk in them, forget it.

 

[CathydsRNA]

I can't wear pointy toes. Even though shoes are supposedly designed to prevent the top of your foot from sliding into the toe box, this is not the case for many women. I am one of those whose feet slide forward into shoes and my feet start hurting with any pointed toes. I like the look of a short pointed toe but I think the shoes with the absurdly long toe (roach killers) are hideous.

 

[robyn6002]

agree hate the pointy ones they make woman's feet look ENORMOUS.

Sad to see flip flop season end! Ah to be young - many college kids wear them until the snow falls!

 

[NurseLRT]

I like pointy toes with pants and jeans. I like when the pant hem falls on top of the shoe, and you see a point sticking out. It looks dressy, and it elongates the body.

I have to be careful with points. Sometimes they are a bit too "witchy" looking. I wear a size 9.5 so not all points work for me.

I also agree that round toes look better with dresses and skirts, somehow the stunt the long line when worn with trousers.

Lori

 

[gettingstrong]

Lately, my plan seems to be : buy shoes, bring them home, try them on the next day, take them back to the store.x( Marnie

 

[RWattier]

I LOVE pointy!

I don't do round, maybe square toe boots........but this season I want the tall boots that have the flat heel raise thing........they have them at Von Mar - Victoria Secrets - they go OVER your jeans

 

[hippahips]

No pointy-toed shoes for me. I like to be comfortable when chasing a child around. I have shoes that are nicely tapered at the toes but are rounded at the tip. I think that's a good compromise. Gives the foot a nice shape without making me feel like my feet are bound.

Pinky

 

[ducky]

I have never had a pair of pointy toe shoes. My size 10 wide would need to add a couple more inches to get to a point and my shoes are pretty much ski's anyway. I never saw any appeal in the look of them either. Feet are not shaped like that, and I always thought they looked ridiculous. But I'm a fashion disaster anyway. Comfort is always my first priority.

 

[purple_magada]

I don't do pointy either. I have wide feet to begin with and wear a size 9 shoe. I bought a pair of pointy ones to wear to a wedding over the summer and I had to get them in a 10 and my feet were sore the entire day.

I still like the chunky look - even if it is not in style.

 

[Gayle]

No pointy-toed shoes for me.

Pointy-toed = Hammer toe

I just bought some really comfy leather clogs. I love open toed sandals in the summer, with a low heel.

 

[nancy324]

Me too, Twin Marie (we have so much in common!). I love pointy-toed shoes. They make my legs look longer. But I buy whatever the fashion is because that's what the stores sell. :-(