Seriously, in some professional settings, women are expected to wear them. They're considered part of dressing up, like wearing a tie. Granted, a tie doesn't damage your body in the way heels do, but it's the same cultural expectation.
i worked at a family-owned drug store in college, where we were required to wear black dress shoes (no rubber soles allowed). problem is, we worked on a linoleum-covered concrete slab. everyone who worked there had problems with their feet and toes. seven years later, i still do not have feeling in parts of my toes. and i didn't even wear heels.
I've worked a lot of jobs where one is required to stand all day in black dress shoes... but they've all been either wood on concrete, rubber pad on tile, or rubber pad on carpet on concrete.
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Seems like a milder form of foot binding.
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i worked at a family-owned drug store in college, where we were required to wear black dress shoes (no rubber soles allowed). problem is, we worked on a linoleum-covered concrete slab. everyone who worked there had problems with their feet and toes. seven years later, i still do not have feeling in parts of my toes. and i didn't even wear heels.
ridiculous :P
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I've worked a lot of jobs where one is required to stand all day in black dress shoes... but they've all been either wood on concrete, rubber pad on tile, or rubber pad on carpet on concrete.
I guess I was lucky.
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