Seraphic Secret

Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Friday Footwear — Stiletto Statistics

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Drive-in Shoe Repair, Alfred Eisenstadt, 1938
Drive-in Shoe Repair, Alfred Eisenstadt, 1938

Sigmund Freud famously asked: “What do women want?”

A new survey by ShoeBuy.com confirms what Seraphic Secret knows: Women want shoes.

Women dream of nose-bleed stilettos, ballet flats, boots, Oxfords, sandals — whatever! If it clothes the foot, women lust for it. 

Okay, a few statistics.

1 in 5 women say they're more turned on by a pair of shoes than their lover. Jean Harlow and Chester Morris in Red Headed Woman, 1932.
One in 5 women say they’re more turned on by a pair of shoes than their lover.
Jean Harlow and Chester Morris in “Red-Headed Woman,” 1932.

 

1 in 4 resist taking off their shoes, no matter how much they're hurting. Shoes by Alexander McQueen.
One in 4 women resist taking off their shoes — no matter how much their feet hurt. Shoes by Alexander McQueen.

 

One in 2 women will lie about the purchase price to our significant other. Brigitte Bardot trying on shoes at Rayne's the Queen's shoemakers, London, 1955.
One in 2 women will lie about the price of their shoes to their husband or boyfriend.
Brigitte Bardot trying on shoes at Rayne’s the Queen’s shoemakers, London, 1955.

 

Almost 50 percent of women surveyed said they had judged someone based on their shoes. Half of that 50 percent said it was not a good impression! Anne Francis and Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet.
Almost 50 percent of women surveyed said they had judged someone based on their shoes. Half of that 50 percent said it was not a good impression!
Anne Francis and Robby the Robot in “Forbidden Planet,” 1956.

 

82 percent of women confessed to owning some knock-off shoes. Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart, 1942.
Eighty-two percent of women confessed to owning “some” counterfeit brand name shoes.
Ginger Rogers in “Roxie Hart,” 1942.

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  1. I love that 1st one’s caption: “One in 5 women say they’re more turned on by a pair of shoes than their lover.”

    There could be one of two assumed missing words, making it either “than by their lover” or “than their lover is.” Simply fraught with meaning. heh heh.

  2. That is what amazes me – that women would rather keep their stylish shoes on to the detriment of blistered/bloodied feet. I am thinking that this attitude is related to an old aviator’s saying:

    It’s better to die than to look bad, but it is possible to do both.

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