Also, please floss between your toes. It keeps the evil spirits from lodging.
I sold women’s shoes for a couple of years way back when. I have to say that there are feet and then there are feet. Feet are a turn on; feet not so much. In my shoe-selling days, women commonly wore some of the most God-awful, pointy-toed, spike-heeled torture devices imaginable; I suspect a lot of feet were ruined by those shoes.
Fernando Trueba said he had, absolutely had to insert a scene in Goya showing a good view of Aitana Sánchez-Gijon’s feet. Claims they are the most gorgeous feet he’s ever seen. While he’s a movie director and not a podiatrist, she certainly does have nice feet.
Mine are starting to show their age… but in general, I care a lot more about “clean feet” than “pretty feet.” Mine are getting blue veins (I blame Abuelita, it’s her genes there) but they’re generally unstinky.
This thread reminds of Eddie Murphy in “Boomerang”, where he brings home a gorgeous date, only to discover that she has a crooked toe, and he freaks out.
Personally, I have yet to find anything sexy or off-putting in any of the female feet I have encountered. But then again all of these feet have been subject to normal personal hygiene.
How about “Shallow Hal” with Jack Black in the title role? It was he, or his partner in shallowness, who spotted (in a park, I think) an attractive woman wearing sandals and was checking her out from head to toe – literally-- when he noticed that her second toes were longer than her “big toes” (though otherwise pretty enough to anyone I would think – see uhh-- FOOTnote * :smack: :rolleyes: ) and suddenly lost his “appetite.” :dubious: :rolleyes: :eek:
I’ve noticed the second toe factor especially in recent years and have found it “charming” instead of hurtful to the eyes.
But that’s just me.
I’ve even come up with a name for it in the last few days. It’s “positive angle.” That’s because if a foot is presented or pictured upright – heel at the bottom-- and with the smallest toe to the rightmost (which can be either foot, actually-- just depending on
whether you see the “top” of a foot or the sole) …
A GRAPH of the toe heights would be ascending from “big toe” to second toe before descending again with the rest.
Here’s the FOOTnote:
- I saw the flick at some combination of educational and social program. The youngish AA (probably straight) staff woman commented that she thought her feet looked good. It just made me realize that women – I believe them to be much more observant on the whole than men – do probably notice other women’s bare or sandaled feet even if straight.
{Imagine an emoticon for mildly surprised}
True Blue Jack
It wasn’t just a crooked toe, it was huge, thick, yellow, ungroomed toenails and ashy toes. Serously ugly feet. (I remember specifically 'casue the continuity was so bad. The actress was sleeping on her stomach but when Eddie Murphy pulled back the sheet, her toes were pointing straight up. Not physically possible…)
It was Norse mythology, not Greek. The giant Thiazi stole Idun who cared for the magic apples that gave the Norse Gods immortality. Their reclaiming of Idun resulted in Thiazi’s death. The gods offered one of themselves in marriage to his daughter Skadi to get her off their backs. She had to choose based on their feet and ended up with Njord the god of the oceans. Sorry for the hijack. I have a thing for Norse mythology.
And feet are cute.
I am now taking venture capital donations from y’all for my new invention…
Underwire footsie jammies.
They lift and separate, x10!!!
I control your desire!
Say, are there any more pics of Carly, not necessarily showing feet, that are public domain? I ask because there is someone in my group of acquaintances that resembles her.
(I just noticed from the URL that you submitted a picture from your own album.)
Oh, and to answer your question at the end, Yes I do.) 
True Blue Jack
I’m a straight woman, and I notice feet. Everyone’s feet. I actually tend to kind of stare at them. I’m not sure why I stare (I think it’s because I used to have kind of a foot phobia - couldn’t stand to have someone else’s feet touch me - but once I started having sex, I realized the near impossibility of continuing with that sort of lifestyle 
), but occasionally I get caught at it, and it’s a little embarrasing. :o
For the reason stated above, I keep my feet pedicured, even in the winter (because what if I were in an accident? :eek: ), but I do it myself, so it doesn’t cost a bundle, and I get a lot of compliments.
I guess we all tend to keep up our appearances in ways that we (and/or our SOs) care about, and ignore the other stuff. Therefore, because I notice other peoples’ feet (and hands, and teeth, etc.), I somehow assume that feet are Something People Notice. On the other hand, I don’t wear makeup or a bra, and occasionally neglect to shave my armpits in a timely manner, because I don’t really give a crap about those things. So people are probably looking at me and thinking, “Damn, she spends so much time on her feet that she totally lets herself go from the waist up!” 
Seriously, though, because I am the freaky foot person that I am (case in point: SkipMagic just came by to see what I was doing, and when I told him I was posting to the SDMB about feet, he shook his head ruefully and said, “WHYYYYY am I not surprised?”), it blows me away to see some of the stuff people are willing to parade around in a pair of sandals! Really, people! A full-on pedi’s not necessary, but unless you’ve been hiking through the mud or require those 2-inch toenails to capture and kill wild game to feed your starving family (who could probably make a feast out of your toe jam alone), you can do better! You know who you are.
P.S. That said, I think Uma’s feet look fine. Clean, pleasant . . . fine. Although I don’t think the super-strappy sandals are the way to go for her . . .
I agree. I’ve got fugly feet, but I would never do the sandal thing without making a little effort to pull back on the vulture thing.
Your feet may be fugly (I’m just goin’ by what you said), but I’ve seen pictures of your upper torso, and it makes you a hot tamale, toes be damned.
Awwww, what a nice thing to say to an old broad! C’mere…give us a hug! 
Well . . . OK, but please don’t touch me with your feet. 
Dude/Chick (exactly who’s posting here???), you will nevah see my feet. At least, not before waaaay too many drinks. Them’s the rules. Well, unless I’m wearing the right sandals and the piggys have been adequately tended to.
Heh. That was auntie em accidentally posting under my account. But, if it helps, I don’t want you to touch me with your feet, either. 
Three times in my life I can recall getting compliments about my feet, and they were from women. Still, my husband loves me to sit by him and put my feet on him-- he does a mean foot massage. I take good care of my feet, but have never had a professional pedicure.
Ya know, I’ve only had one professional pedicure. I am rather sensitive about my feet and I always thought it was territory I just didn’t want to get into. Then the SIL got me the gift certificate. She told me what a faaaaabulous experience it is, dahling. It was just OK. I mean, I like not having to do the polish myself, but unless you have really callousy feet (and I don’t), I think the rest of it is overkill.
True Blue Jack
Yes I happen to have more photos of Ms Simon:
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two
three
Okay, admittedly I like the barefoot photos of her.
So, I did a Google image search for Carly Simon (exact phrase) and here are the results: photos of Carly
Ditto. I notice feet too, mostly on women. If they are pedicured and maintained (even if you do your own), almost all feet are ok to me. However, with thick callouses and long toenails they just gross me out. As for men’s feet, I’d rather not see them. I’m not a fan of men in sandals of any kind and I wish they would all stop wearing them.
And I’ve had tons of compliments on my feet from men, so I know that a substantial number of the male population do look at feet and notice whether they are nice or not. I like to get pedicured about every two weeks or so. It is a wonderful feeling to have freshly pedicured feet.