[quote=CA renter]Thanks for the suggestions, BG. Yes, those ankle boots are what I prefer to wear when having to wear “proper” shoes. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to find professional clothing to go with them. We need women’s pumps that are extremely comfortable and don’t squeeze the toes like most pumps do. Like you and scaredy, being barefoot was always my thing and, as you’ve said, it can cause your feet to not quite fit into most women’s shoes. 🙂
Never did understand how women could wear stilettos for more than two seconds, and wearing them while pregnant must have been tons of fun! ;)[/quote]
CAR, here’s a big collection of VERY comfortable pumps. Some styles come in wide widths, as well.
Of course, we didn’t know about these brands back in the day … and only one or two of them likely existed back then. We know so much more today about what working all day in stilettos will do to your feet (and your gait, as scaredy mentioned). I had to work on pilates reformer machines to correct my gait and posture and STILL have to do daily exercises for this.
I DID have some more practical “Easy Spirit” pumps in my collection of stilettos back then but they were annoying to wear because they activated the metal detector in the Federal Courthouse every time I had to go thru, frequently carrying a load of stuff :=0 (This was before 9/11.)
A lot of the paper and file shuffling we did manually on our feet carrying stuff and rolling baskets up and down elevators and back and forth across the street is just done electronically from cubicles and judge’s benches by pants-wearing clerks now, thanks to e-filing and pdf documents :=]
We weren’t allowed to dress that way. Skirts and hose were mandatory on days we only popped in and out of courtrooms as well as stayed in there for hgs.
