[pct-l] Foot Expansion

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Cat Nelson <sagegirl51 at gmail.com>  wrote:
 
>I'd like to know who invented high heals and shoot them. They make no sense 
>to me and yet women wear them. Why? 

>From Wikipedia:

Some trace the high heel to horse riders in the Near East who used high heels for functionality, because they helped hold the rider's foot in stirrups

"In 1533, after men had already started wearing heels again, the diminutive Italian wife of Henry II, King of France, Queen Catherine de' Medici, commissioned a cobbler to fashion her a pair of heels, both for fashion and to suggest greater height." She wanted to look taller but all of those in her court saw them as a fashion statement and they all started wearing them.

Incidentally, if any of you get to see Cheryl Strayed talk you will get to see her stylish high heeled hiking boots. She got a compliment from a young woman in the audience about them. Although Cheryl says she calls them her Book Tour shoes and uses them for no other purpose, let's hope that the 2013 hikers don't act like the court of de' Medici and pick up the fashion on the PCT. They can give new meaning to the term, "a well turned ankle."

TrailHacker

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"When my feet hurt, I take off my high heeled hikers"
Abraham Lincoln