Why Do We Wear Shoes?

The original function of shoes is to protect the feet from harm and weather. We learned in the previous episodes that the bigger and broader your base, the stronger and more grounded your stance will be. If your toes are squashed together and not allowed to spread out as they are designed to do, to give maximum balance, then the weight of your body is being shifted backwards onto the heels alone. This means that when you are walking or standing you are prone to being very easily knocked over. It therefore stands to reason that the shoes we wear should not interfere in this endeavour. Not even for the sake of fashion. Don’t squash your feet into tight shoes or you will be more likely to lose your balance.

If you really want to know how bad shoes are for your feet and are looking for foot wear made for walking, then look no further. Most shoes are not made for walking but for fashion. Shoes can cause serious damage to adults' and children's feet. Having danced on pointe shoes as a professional ballet dancer for over two decades, it has taken me several years of intense research and practice to get my own damaged feet back to near-normal again. My findings are worth sharing with anyone who suffers from bunions, hammer toes, flat feet, or any other damage caused by shoes (or hereditary factors). I shall also try to clear up certain myths about shoe wear and explain why high heels are the worst shoes to wear with the reservation that it's quite OK to dress up once in a while.

5FINGERS SHOES IS GOOD FOR FEET

Do you want a pair of those awesome new shoes, but you’re afraid that you can’t afford them? Relax! It’s not that difficult to find cheap Five Fingers  shoes. Luckily, you can find them on sale and at good prices if you know where to look.
Everyone wants shoes these days. Those weird looking pieces of footwear are a big hit among fitness enthusiasts and people who just want to be more comfortable with walking, standing and moving. shoes, with their unique design and thin, lightweight materials are perfect for increasing your range of motion and balance and helping with developing better agility.

 know five fingers will be more suitable for running and other sports and actives, but I still decided on the KSOs because I am gardening after all and keeping stuff out is important. They keep my feet clean and don’t mind getting wet. I have even found that I’m not accidentally breaking plants when I’m walking in my garden beds because I can feel where I’m placing my feet. are invigorating and have actually enhanced my gardening experience. Five Fingers don’t have to be just for running and hiking. They are a good fit for any activity. Some times, I wear my Vibram five fingers KSO do other things. With my six-month old  fivefingers KSO shoes, I start my hiking in the park and mountain. I plan to wear my shoes as I prepared for the start of Morgan’s Little Miami Triathlon located at Fort Ancient State Park, Oregonia, Ohio in June, 2010. It is a two-person team race comprised of a 6 mile canoe, 5.5 mile run, and an 18 mile bike race with over 1,000 teams.  five fingers KSO shoes performed flawlessly in the canoe then run segments. I wish I could have used them for the bicycle segment but I was forced to switch to my road bike shoes. A key race feature and KSO test was running up the half-mile Killer Hill from the river trail to the bike transition area with the final 50 yards on wooden steps as seen in the photo. I believe very few have run the complete hill.

FIND RIGHT SHOES SIZE

Length unit
The following length units are commonly used today to define shoe-size systems:
Millimeter (mm)
Centimeter (cm) = 10 mm
Paris point = 2/3 cm = 6.67 mm
Barleycorn = 1/3 inch = 8.47 mm
Traditional shoe sizes by country
Warning: Most of the shoe-size systems listed in this section are not formally standardized. The exact relationship between a labelled shoe size and the interval of foot lengths for which that shoe is suitable can vary substantially between different manufacturers. The following descriptions may only approximate the exact sizing systems used by individual manufacturers. Discrepancies and variations occur in particular if shoes manufactured according to one shoe-size system are labeled in another system. With this lack of standardisation, shoe sizes can even vary from one manufacturer (or brand) as the manufacturer may use multiple different factires around the world to produce a given style.
Continental Europe
In France, Germany, and most other European countries, the traditional shoe size is the length of the last, measured in Paris points. For shoe types where the last is 20 mm longer than the foot for which the shoe will fit:
     shoe size = (foot length + 20 mm) / 6.67 mm

Formal standards
Various national and international standards (ISO 9407) recommend a shoe-size system known as Mondopoint. It is based on the mean foot length for which the shoe is suitable, measured in millimeters. A Mondopoint shoe label can optionally also specify the width of the foot, again in millimeters.
European standard EN 13402 recommends instead that shoes should be labeled with the interval of foot lengths for which they are suitable, measured in centimeters.

Men also like Jordan high heels

Reports have been floating around for more than a year. Hairy legs atop 4-inch sticks. Bulging calves coming out of Bottega Venetas. Wedges, platforms, even stilettos being worn by — gasp — men.
Johnny Weir rocks them. So does Derek J, the Atlanta hair stylist made famous by Bravo’s “Real Housewives.” New York and San Francisco boast growing groups of glam-footed guys. Los Angeles, too: A New York Times report filed from there last week has kicked up the notion that high heels for XY chromosomes are the new hot thing.
Trends aside, men have been wearing heels to make a statement for years. In April, dozens of dudes pushed into pumps for the University of Alaska’s fourth annual “Walk a Mile in her Shoes” fundraiser to benefit female sexual assault victims. A similar event in San Antonio, Texas. this month supported victims of domestic violence.
But now, fashion insiders are noticing guys strapping stilettos onto their gams for entirely aesthetic reasons.
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“What’s partly propelling it is the fact that men have become more comfortable with their feminine sides and are less afraid to show that, especially since high heels literally elevate you from the crowd,” said Michael Musto, culture critic for the Village Voice.
Historically, it’s not unprecedented. As the Times pointed out, heels were de rigueur in pre-Napoleonic France. Men of all stripes paired platform shoes with their bell bottoms during the 1970s. The latest iteration finds guys in shoes built for gals.
“It’s the girly fascination,” said celebrity stylist Philip Bloch. “These men can appreciate the heels for their artwork.”
Bloch pointed out that women co-opt menswear all the time. Take the boyfriend jean, the baggier, rolled up cousin of skinny, boot-leg and flared styles. Loafers, tuxedos, fedoras and ties have all, at varying points, found a home in the women’s department.
For now, men buying heels is a trend without numbers. But, pardon the pun, it’s got legs.
“It’s still too small of a trend now to make it on the radar and there’s still not enough people that will allow themselves to be counted as purchasing that product,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst of the market research firm the NPD Group. “But we will, by next year, be able to quantify it.”
Cohen billed the trend as “part of the new migration of consumer openness.” Indeed, if there were ever a time for men to feel comfortable slipping on a pair of Manolos, it’s now. In the past year, bullying became the enemy, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed and New York legalized gay marriage. If Lady Gaga serves as an example, androgyny is in.
But then there’s the physical factor.
“Once they dig their feet into a pair of six-inchers and realize how incredibly awkward it feels, I think most guys will run back to flats,” Musto said, musing that the most flattering high heel for a man “would probably be an open-toed one for a quick exit.”
Still, even if the trend only sticks around as long as it takes to develop a callus on the ball of of a foot (for the uninitiated: it doesn’t take very long), Simon Doonan, the creative ambassador of Barneys and author of “Eccentric Glamour,” applauds men attempting what women have endured for centuries.
“It’s the same as gay marriage,” he said. “Why should straight people be the only ones who suffer?”