European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Treading Between Gucci and birkenstock by Jack Smith los Angeles times there seems to be Lilloo doubt from my mail,iha1 Many women resent the kinds of shoe that fashion forces them into bul most Are going 1o go on wearing May remember thai a Reader named Vicki Ochocki complained thai if saying if the shoe is. It s ugly is accurate and that All is dress shoes have Loo High heels and pointed toes thai Causa damage to the loot " coincidental Jan Burns observed that coloured shoes High heels and textured or coloured blocking ate a sure sign that the wearer is enjoying an Active and probably illicit sex life. I certainly am no going to Start trying to guess Iho nature of a woman s sex life from her shoes nor do i recommend in but some readers do seem to eel thai High heels enhance a woman s sex Appeal. The most feminine innovation in is history of footwear is the Spike Heet writes Lewis j. Herman. Rare is the Man who fails to respond to the Click of a High Heel on a sidewalk or an office floor. Also a Spike Heel makes an effective weapon when the woman needs to defend Hersell irom Hack maybe that s part of their Appeal the Sensa of danger they inspire. Ginny King is not going lobe shamed by Jan Burnett s suspicions into giving up her colourful footwear. As 1 sit Here writing this she Saya. I am wearing a pair of electric Blue High heeled shoes i Wear a lot of Bright Blue and also a lot of red dresses so i have a pair of red shoes too. I m not sure there is any generalization Hal will not gel you into trouble. I have been married to the same Man Lor Over 30 years. I will continue to Wear my Bright High heels if i eel it is in Good taste. I have been considering the Purchase of a pair of Pink or Lavender shoes. Maybe i la go All the Way and get a pair of Eachl an anguished complain comes from Catherine a. Strohlein. Women s shoes Are truly a disaster she says. I. Reached adulthood in the 1960s, when the rapier toe and the stiletto Heel were of Regueur for any Dressy occasion. No Mailer thai i blood 5-fool-Lo i still had to Wear three or four Inch heels. No Mailer that my feet contained live toes and were fairly Square in Iron they had 1o be pointed like an Arrow. No matter that ii is impossible to walk Colmor Tabby much less swiftly in such items they were fashionable. How could i Ever get a Dale if i wore fool shaped shoes As a remit of forcing her feel into pointed shoes she got a bunion suffered severe complications including surgery and had logo on crutches for a week and hobble about for another two. Women have rebelled against corsets and girdles she says and it s Lime they rebelled again cruel shoes. Please shoe designers. Surely there s an attractive line Baleen Gucci and birkenstock. Between Vanderbilt and Nike. I want Guclen stocks i want Vand Unikel pastel yellow with a one Inch Heel in a 10-b." Roz Salzman. Co owner of a women s shoe store reports that she has been watching women shop for shoes for years and there Are certain routines they follow. Some women take a display shoe and hold it sideways in front of a Mirror As if rot trusting their own perspective some place it on the door in Iron o the Mirror and look a it from a distance some hold the shoe up to their laces evidently to match its color with their skin tone some put a hand into the shoe evidently to gel some idea How in will look with a Loo in in. This Odd behaviour suggests that there is something ritualistic about shopping Lor shoes and that it cannot be explained any More than voodoo can be explained. Perhaps one reason women buy so Many shoes is that they Are addicted to these shopping rituals. As Well As to new shoes. Please please Salzman urges never again say so pairs of shoes Are More shoes than any one woman needs always keep in mind thai need is relative. Remember women Are sometimes said to be head Over heels in love. Yes. Women do buy shoes Alwn Hay Are romantically involved. You d be surprised at How Many leg Man Are also shoe men " i d like to Point out thai Salzman said thai not 1. If Madonna wears it by Nadine Brozan new York times the father sorted through the size 12pants rack in the boys department and held Upa pair of Gray dungarees. Look he said to his11 year old son Aren t these Nice Nice the boy scoffed of. Dad. Who would Ever Wear those the tension escalated and soon Man and boy were shouting at each other in yet another family confrontation in the children s dolling store. Shopping Lor clothes can pit parents and children in intervene rational contests of Laste and will. Those contests Center on finding the right shorts or bathing suits to pack in Camp trunks or the right outfit for the prom. Disagreements also Are caused by Winter jackets or sweatpants or blazers. Tensions aroused by making or trying to make purchases can heat tempers on both sides. Lesley Decker of Woodbury. N.y., for example says that she end her daughter Liana. 11, have a wonderful Beautiful but she said when we Are in a store i see thai relationship crumbling before my eyes. This is us at our worst but luckily it is also Only momentary shopping with three daughters Ages 15,14 and 7, so unnerved Cynthia Schuyl that she has Lurns Over All responsibility for outlining them to her husband John and says that her forays into stores with them have made me hate shopping and driven me not to care what they Wear so Long As they put on socks on snowy Days. I am in the Middle Ages and they Are in the 1980s." she said. What Parent most often the Mother chooses a child will Olen reject for what May seem inexplicable nuances the wrong Shade of Denim or the wrong trim on a sneaker for example but in the rejection there lies the Shadow of More serious matters. Jane Rinzler 17, a senior at Horace Mann school and author of a Book called teens speak out Donald 1, Fine. 1985 that analyses teen age attitudes on a variety of issues said clothes really symbolize something else your Independence. Once you can pick out your own clothing you re not Mommy s Little baby anymore. You Creale your own style and break away from the image your parents want you to have that s Why parents and kids fight. It s a pretty big Deal when you re Young and trying to establish thai you can make your own choices and you Don t want to Hurt your Mother s feelings by turning everything she suggests tha struggle or Independence is compounded by other desires especially in adolescence when acceptance by Peers is Paramount. As one Mother of two said. Ii is important that they look like their friends and even As they try to establish their own identity. Ii is a mass identity. They certainly Don l want to look like you or what you want them to look like so you have to bite your Tongue and let them she added that she had trained herself never to look directly at a garment that she did like never to make comments out loud and certainly never to shout suggestions through a dressing room curtain. Choosing clothes can become a Power at Ruggia said or. H. Paul Gabriel acting director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the new York University medical Center and professor of Din local psychiatry there. We make a great investment in our children looking arid behaving right and thai meant to our standards not theirs he said. Children Are a place of us out Here so a Are concerned about How they look to other stir parents tend to acquiesce Lothar Chioran s preferences parity because they recognize the Fulty of expecting them to Wear Dothes they Stellke but More important because they realize that wardrobe choices do May look Cuy to adults but in t harmful. Though the disagreement lends to be most pronounced in adolescence the debates can begin much Eart Tor. If i Tell my daughter Nicole who la 7. That i think something is great she often says of Mommy yuck,1 or no Way jose.1 " said Ronee Miller. She is Strong willed and knows exactly what she wants. Ii Cyndi Lauper or Madonna wears it my daughter loves it and i go along because i feel that if i can give her creative Freedom in dress then 1 can be Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday july 8,1988
