Comments on: Changing Fashion Standards: Sexy Shoes from 1969

By: Damenschuhe

Damenschuhe — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:41:27 +0000

Having comfortable shoe can really take ladies everywhere without hurting their feet.

By: Sophia Williams

Sophia Williams — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:57:31 +0000

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By: christina

christina — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:51:58 +0000

I had a pair of platform sneakers too! They were the first pair of shoe I ever bought on my own! I thought I looked just like Posh Spice! ^_^

By: christina

christina — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:50:28 +0000

That’s funny! I have the exact opposite problem. All shoes are far too wide. I have been searching for a pair of boots that will actually stay up on my calf for 3 years!And I’m no skinny-minnie! I feel like they are making shoes too wide nowadays. Interesting how our perspectives regarding shoes are the exact opposite.

By: giorgos

giorgos — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:13:38 +0000

Wow. Well spotted. I don’t know what “Whittier Grand Opening” means, but this image certainly says something about the fetishisation of women’s shoes by men to the point that the shoes themselves become sexual objects. It is important, also, to note that women’s shoes carrying the label “sexy” are primarily the ones that are uncomfortable, cause pain and injuries to women. In other words, it is the sexualisation of women’s pain that drives men’s shoe fetishism.

By: MeToo

MeToo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:48:07 +0000

I think it is, in part. As in, our shoes can even make women like this sexy.

By: Captain Crab

Captain Crab — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:13:33 +0000

Captain Crab, not “grab”

By: Captain Grab

Captain Grab — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:09:46 +0000

Wait a few years and they will be “sexy” again. Maybe soon if designers read this blog.

By: meerkat

meerkat — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:44:35 +0000

They are still too sexily impractical for me.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:36:27 +0000

I had a pair of those weird platform sneakers in the mid-90s. They died from using them so much. When they come back in style, I am SO buying a pair.

By: Kelle

Kelle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:59:48 +0000

“Our ideas of what constitutes a “sexy” woman’s shoe today includes a higher, thinner heel, meaning they’re also in general less stable, harder to walk in, and worse for your feet than shoes with a chunky heel like these.”

It goes in cycles…high-fashion shoes in the 1950s were stiletto-heeled, pointy-toed, and such. The mid-60s were flats or kitten heels, late 60s-mid 70s as in the picture with and without platforms, late 70s to late 80s was stiletto heels again, late 80s to mid 90s was mostly chunkier shoes as above, mid 90s were just weird with things like platform sneakers or futuristic casual loafers, and now we’re back to tottery stilettos, with or without platforms. Fashion will tire of those soon enough and chunkier heels will be back right about when we get 90s retro fashion. :P

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:01:30 +0000

Note to self: Figure out a way to travel back in time to 1969 to buy shoes.

Those shoes are cute, and it’s really hard to find shoes with wide chunky heels now that don’t look frumpy…

By: chryslin

chryslin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:46:36 +0000

What’s with the guy fellating the shoe in the “Whittier Grand Opening” box?

By: Mina

Mina — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:09:25 +0000

Don’t forget narrow. I spent several hours trying on shoes the other weekend just to end up with a pair of Mary Jane ballet flats. All the other shoes were far too narrow for my feet. Women’s shoes simply aren’t designed for women with wide feet.

By: Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist

Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:12:24 +0000

I actually thought the comic was a mockery of sex appeal, because of how the female was drawn. Yikes