These Are My Shoes!

Shoes are the best gift on earth giving to a woman. Well at least in my opinion. Shoes are the necessary accessory on a persons’ outfit. Shoes will do one or two things when it comes to dressing up. It would define who you are or change who you are. To me shoes change your character and help you to feel confident in your own skin. A good pair of shoes would have a persons’ self esteem, extremely high. In our textbook Culture and Technology it states, “Makeup is used to alter one’s appearance to fit within cultural norms of attractiveness and to exaggerate of emphasize gendered characteristics of appearance, such as the eyes or lips,” (Slack 161). A woman wearing a nice dress with makeup and man wearing a nice color suit might bring out their features slightly. On the other hand; putting on some attractive shoes would bring out the personality and life within that person. In Pat Gill article she stated, “The social categories of race, class, and gender are acknowledged only to be proven insignificant,” (Gill 170). In the case of shoes, these social categories are unworthy if the shoes are not attracting attention and confident goes unnoticed on the person. The use of shoe technology is very necessary in my life because it defines me of who I am today. Shoes bring out my outfits, legs, but most of all, my cocky attitude. I am sure a lot of ladies can relate to the time when they first put on a pair of their mother’s high heels. A question may come to mind, why do little girls put on their mother shoes in the first place? When a young girl puts on her mother’s shoes it makes her feel grown, brave, cute, but most of all sexy.

High heels identify a woman as, sexy in today’s society. This is one major reason why I wear four inch high heels. Over the decades high heels earned the nick name, “sexy woman,” because at one point they were consider, “prostitutes.” In the 1960’ and 70’s a woman was consider a prostitute if she wore high heels. How does society come up with these names over a period of time? “We are increasing incapable of fashioning representations of our own experience, that we turn fashioning nostalgic re-vision,” (Gill 163). Shoes have been taken to another level. Many times it is celebrities we turn to for style because we are afraid of having our own style. In order for me to know the latest trends on shoes I look in magazines and on television. Have you ever notice there are different types of shoes for different situations? Why is this? When designers make heels they assume you can walk in them, the same with men and steel toe boots. In our textbook Cultures and Technology it states, “Technologies often impinge unequally on those with different abilities. Most technologies assume that the users are able bodies,” (Slack 159). Men Gator shoes are design for men with money and confidence. High heels from all nature are design for women with attitudes and confidence. Just like me, Teonna’Joy!

Cites: Slack, Jennifer Wise, J. MacGregor. Culture and Technology.

Gill, Pat. Technostagia: Making the Future Past Perfect.