"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This eclectic and enchanting compendium will delight all those who have despaired of their feet, been seduced by a pair of shoes, or spent time having a pedicure. Throughout, photos of beautiful, grotesque, and sexy shoes the foot in paintings and other works of art famous feet and foot ornamentation illustrate the many faces of the foot. Vanderlinden also offers tantalizing tidbits about foot afflictions (bunions, corns, and calluses), foot rituals and symbolism (from foot washing to sipping champagne from a lover's shoe), foot fairytales and folklore (Cinderella being the pre-eminent example), and foot beauty treatments (Cleopatra had a slew of them). Then there is the giddy pleasure, the lust, the allure, the therapeutic value of shoes for the shoe lover, from the stiltlike chopine of 15th -century France and the outlandishly wide duckbill of 16th-century England to the gorgeous Manolo Blahniks of today. She explains the giddy pleasure, the lust, and the therapeutic value of shoes for the shoe lover, with such examples. Physically, our feet are unsung heroes, absorbing some five million pounds of pressure per day as they do their job of carting us around. Author Kathy Vanderlinden has collected every imaginable kind of fact and fancy about this all-important part of the anatomy. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Kathy Vanderlinden has collected a closetful of fascinating information about the physical foot, foot fashion, foot fetishism, and other aspects of that part of the body so many of us hate. In FOOT, Kathy Vanderlinden has collected a closetful of fascinating information about the physical foot, foot fashion, foot fetishism. Join Facebook to connect with Kathy Vander Linden and others you may know.
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