A few well-heeled women are even requesting surgery such as toe shortening and nail narrowing to lessen the pain without reducing their fashion quotient. Other remedies include collagen injections that add temporary padding to the soles of the feet.
Last February, Kelli Richards, a 31-year-old devotee of Kate Spade sandals and Costume National pumps, shortened a second toe, by having a piece of its bone removed, and had a pinkie toe straightened.
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Toe-shortening surgery may sound a bit macabre to the average pump-wearer, but it’s not an original idea. According to the unsanitized Grimm Brothers fairy tale, Cinderella’s stepsisters hacked off pieces of their feet in attempts to fit into the famous slipper.
Today’s procedures are usually more successful. “My job is to get women back in high heels,” says Dr. Suzanne Levine, a New York City podiatrist.
A la circense obsesi
I’ve always resisted to laugh or feel disapproval or mockery of plastic surgery. Wanting to be lovely and feelings of self-doubt are ordinary enough. But I’d be inhuman if I didn’t laugh at this.
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