This week pay particular attention to people's feet and shoes. At this time of the year those of us north won't see much more than shoes and boots, but those say a lot about a person too. A woman in fashion boots with 3 inch heels is not the same person as a woman in salt stained Timberland boots.Some things to look for:
- Size, length and width
- Stillness, movement
- How they're held at rest (Don't worry about how people walk unless you want to. Just doing how feet look is enough for a week.)
- Do the feet point straight, in, out, slump to the outside edges
- Color(s)
- How old
- Practicality
- Thickness of sole
- Size of heel
- Wear on the heels (amount, evenness)
- Clean or dirty (new dirt or layers accumulated)
- Stains
- Wear pattern
- Crease pattern
- Stockings, socks, patterns or solid
Some notes from my excursion to Barnes and Noble. Apparently Type A people don’t hang around B&N, not even in the Starbucks. I was on the look out for jiggly feet and twitchy hands but there weren’t any!
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• thick round shoes curled up at the toes and heals, laces brushing the floor
• jeans drooping and frayed at her heels, stained with salt and wicking up brown water
• soles as thick as his feet, tipped with chrome ornaments
• ominous red shoes with toes and heels as sharp as weapons
• floppy rope laces
• quick cluck of her heels on tile
• knees splayed, her feet pointed north and east
• he sat with the tips of his toes resting on the floor.
• heels ate away at the bottoms of his drooping pants legs
• slender black shoes at the base of a round body
• heels peeked out of the slits they’d gnawed through the bottom of his pants legs
• crossed leg entwined like a vine about the lower, foot tucked behind
• neon green swash on her shoes and purple poof jacket
• knees splayed, insteps kissing each other
• soft shoes wear-stretched too large
• shoe tips peeking out from wide pant legs