I loathe toe cleavage.
Sue reminded me about it the other day. I just don't understand why it's so "cute" And then there's always the question, how much is too much? Because you can do a little like this gal....
Which isn't that bad. In fact, I would say that this doesn't bother me at all... it's actually kinda cute.
And then you have MASSIVE toe cleavage like this.....
Okay, so maybe this one isn't "massive" per say. But it still is gross to me. I mean, what's the deal with toe cleavage? Why do you try and put your feet into a toe-box that's too small? I don't care how cute the shoe is. If I try it on, and I see major toe crack, I do not purchase that shoe. (Personally, toe cleavage ranks right up there with the too-low pants in my book....or pants that are so tight that they even cause the thinnest of thin to blub out over the top (aka "muffin top") that's what she said.)
Even the big-shoe-dogs have weighed in on this phenomenom...
"By the late 1990s when the fashion writer and historian Colin McDowell observed Blahnik at work, he had been in command of his craft for years. The process of creating a Manolo Blahnik shoe begins with Manolo sketching it at home in Bath, his London office or one of his northern Italian factories with a Tombo Japanese brush pen in three minutes of “firm, assured hand movements followed by precise, sharp little jabs as the details are fitted in”. He then takes up to a day to carve the last – usually from beechwood – and then sculpts the the heel, which is carved first on the machine, then chiseled and filed by hand. When Blahnik is satisfied, an aluminium mould is made of the last and then the plastic last from which the shoe will be made.
“I have the advantage of study,” he told Colin McDowell. “I’ve been studying the art of the shoe… for over twenty years. I know every process. I know how to cut and cut away here (the side of the shoe) and still make it so that it stays on the foot. And the secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe. You must only show the first two cracks. And the heel. Even if it’s twelve centimetres high it still has to feel secure – and that’s a question of balance. That’s why I carve each heel personally myself – on the machine and then by hand with a chisel and file, until it’s exactly right.”
See? the master himself has said that only 2 cracks can show.
And the celebrities that are getting in on this action. Yikes! It's just like anything else. Some do it well, in moderation. Others are BAM in your face. (and foot in my face doesn't sound fun at all.) So please, do me a favor, stop strutting around in your too-short-toe-box. It's not cute and I don't want to see it.
Besides, you know that it doesn't even really hold your foot in anyways...
***P.S. I know that this post has been drawing a lot of attention. Let me first say that I exaggerrate a lot for sarcasm's sake. It's just in my nature. I'm not trying to outlaw toe cleavage, and it's not like I'm gonna go punch someone in the face for having it. (That's ridiculous.) I'm just saying, I don't prefer the massive toe cleavage that some shoes have. Like I said, a little is great. A lot, I just don't like. That's all. End of story.***
