Today i read an article about women who are so desperate to keep up with the latest fashion trends, in terms of shoes, they have extremely dangerous surgery done to their feet. According to Harris (2003), "vanity is always in fashion" and therefore women are willing to have their toes shortened, have collagen injected into the balls of their feet and have bunions removed all so they can fit into the latest fashionable high heel shoes and look the part.
This can in some ways be understood when looking at what Tseelon's (1997) theory says about women and dress. He suggests that "women have historically been defined as trivial, superficial, vain, even evil" (Entwistle 2000)due to what they were wearing. "In one case a woman's shoes were used to imply that she too was cheap." (Entwistle 2000)
This unfair assumption of a woman's culture, class or personality due to what she wears makes the surgery semi understandable. Males, for some reason are not judged in the same way.
Bibliography
Harris, G. 2003. 'If shoe wont fit, fix the foot? Popular surgery raises concern', The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2010, from http://www.s118842024.onlinehome.us/textbooks/PM-China/Shoe%20does%20not%20fit--fix%20the%20footpdf.pdf
Entwistle, J. 2000. Chapter 1: Addressing the body. In: The Fashioned Body. Cambridge: Polity Press. Pp 22
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