Shoeosis: A diagnosis every woman would relate to!
Feeling guilty about adding just another pair to your shoe collection?
Well, there is no need to be! Being shoeaholic, shoe-addict or experiencing shoegasm every time you watch your favorite new pair of shoes is perfectly normal.
So what is Shoeosis and how to know if you are suffering from it?
Shoeosis is basically a unique term to define one’s obsessed with the collection of a variety of shoes.
To put things in perspective, let’s consider these statistics
The pop sensation warbler Christina Aguilera has almost 750 pairs of shoes in her walk-in wardrobe!
As per a popular magazine, Paris Hilton is believed to own almost 2,000 pairs of shoes Imelda Marcos, the Philippines politician owns 1000 pairs of designer footwear in her collection!
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It is an undeniable fact that the purchase of a pair of new shoes holds great value and is nothing less than a true fetish for the women.
Exploring the women’s love for shoes
Shoes are the essential part of the wardrobe that set and distinguish the personal style, class, and choices of two individuals. It won’t be wrong to say that the choice of the pair of shoes can make the same dress look different on different woman.
Irrespective of the choice of a nice pair of shoes including high-heeled or flats, slippers or flip-flops, riding boots, stilettos or platform shoes, shoes define a distinct style and precise typology of woman.
Is Shoeosis a dangerous condition?
Definitely
Although Collette Dinnigan’s style varies slightly from season to season the same philosophy “to produce beautiful pieces that are affordable, wearable, versatile and child friendly” remains constant as does her “passionate feeling for what women want” 2. This is especially evident in her Autumn/Winter 2008 collection ‘Midnight in Moscow’ where Dinnigan implements a more ominous theme making it luxury self-indulgence. The collection is dark with an armoured feel combined with silver hues and dark shades in gladiator-style dresses, girly pleated gowns and military-style jackets. The darkness of these designs contrast heavily with her tr...
The article focuses on Individualization and uniqueness and how it has begun to find its way into current advertisements. By allowing a woman to express her individuality it shows boldness, fearlessness, and confidence and that is refreshing in today’s world of fashion.
Suzan Harjo uses ethos, pointing out how digging up and selling bodies and artifacts of a human culture is ethically wrong or immoral; pathos, telling how there are no words to describe the shame that Indian families feel when their ancestors and relatives are dug up, decapitated, and experimented on; and finally logos, showing us how illogical digging bodies up is, what if it was some culture doing this to, say, white burial sites. What would we do, we would feel like starting a fight, right?
Simon Klinek discusses about how as well as why respectable leaders are leaders the reasons behind why they do what they do and the reactions these leader’s actions cause to those surrounding them. The fact in which a person becomes a leader is a matter of choice, and a willingness to put another person before one’s self the idea of getting the fall so that another is able to triumph and succeed. Simon utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos in an effective manner during his presentation examples are as follows.
Rikita Tyson effectively ethos in her argument. Ethos is all about credibility and if the author is a reliable source of information. In her post, Tyson wrote “(If you’re curious, the Pelican edition notes on page 22, “the adage says, ‘The cat would eat fish but will not wet her feet.’”)”(Tyson). She provides both the section and the page number of No Fear Shakespeare of where she found her information, which proves her to be a credible source. When Tyson provided some passages from the play Macbeth she input “(1.7.31-45)”(Tyson). Her input of the lines to find the passage she pulled from Macbeth shows that she is a credible source. The quotations also reveals that ethos is provided in her blog post.
The Doctrine of Ethos states that music effects character and emotion of man by way of morals or ethics. It was arranged into certain scales, each with a certain characteristic. Specific scales were said to be able to inspire rage or sadness. Some were said to inspire happiness, and one was even said to weaken the mind due to its simplicity. Greek music, of which the Doctrine of Ethos specifically talked about, wasn’t just solely instrumental. Improvising, they usually incorporated lyrics and even dance. Music was studied by the Greeks on a level that would be considered excessive in our society by all but our musicologists, ethnomusicologist, music theorists, and a small minority that take their love of music to more than just an aesthetic level. In our world, a world of empiricism and skepticism, the Doctrine of Ethos may sound a bit hard to believe. It may even sound magical and mystical, but I feel that it has some deep roots in truth. Philosophers, musicians, and even the layman have all theorized about the effect of music on the mind, body, and soul. After all, as William Congreve said in his The Mourning Bride, “Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
The footbed is also removable if you need to use your own orthotics. You might need a squishy insert or extra heel cushioning for all your shoes. While the footbed is removable, the back of the heel is not very high. This might be something to take into consideration if you need heel inserts.
Pointe shoes are special shoes the women wear to dance on their toes. The tip of the shoe, called the box is made out of tightly packed layers of paper mache, fabric, or cardboard. This needs to be very sturdy, because the dancer will be putting all of her weight on it. The sole of the shoe, or the shank, is made out of leather board or red board, it is important for this to be sturdy, because it supports your ankles. In some professional companies pointe shoes are custom made to fit the dancer’s foot perfec...
Some of this equipment includes soft ballet shoes and pointe shoes. A pointe shoe, which is one key element of ballet, is a shoe used by dancers to dance on the tips of their toes. However, intense training is necessary to learn and maintain the skills for this kind of dance. The first pointe dancers used a regular soft shoe to go en pointe, thus the technique was used sparsely due to its difficulty. Later on, the first pointe shoes were made, but they only came in one size. The pointe shoe, which has been perfected over the years, now provides a sturdy base for the dancer’s feet. Despite this, almost all dancers require padding for their toes, medical tape to minimize blisters, and/or other products used to lessen the stress on the feet while dancing. Additionally, each pointe shoe is handmade. When a dancer gets a new pair of pointe shoes, they must sew the elastic and ribbon onto the shoe themselves and “break in” the shoe. Breaking in a pointe shoe prepares it for dancing by making it more pliable and comfortable. After sewing the ribbon and breaking in a shoe, the pointe shoe is ready to be used
High heels can be comfortable if you pick the correct shoe size and height of the heel. Those are the two rules when picking out high heels. Also, things that make them more bearable are getting gel inserts to help either your arch or the ball...
Then it progressed to my knees. After many complaints my parents received, they took me to our local physician. They diagnosed me with flat arches and before long I had my very own pair of orthotics sole inserts. I still have them today.
Stevenson also used ethos in his writing to appeal to his reader’s view. The author uses ethos to build his credibility with his audiences and show them that he is trustworthy, respectful, and authorized to talk about this subject. A great example of this is when the Stevenson gives his background story and reveals why he became a lawyer. Stevenson discloses that “[d]eveloping the skills to quantify and deconstruct the discrimination and inequality I saw became urgent and meaningful” (13). This explains that the author was motivated to learn about the discrimination and inequality that is going in the American court systems.
The woman in the shoe advertisement is seen as belonging on the floor, on the same level as the man’s shoe. The image even includes the line “Keep her where she belongs...” implying that women belong on the ground, far below men. In 2013, a whole four decades later, Robin Thicke once again insinuates that women are lesser than men, and uses them as props in his music video. The women are not treated as people and are left without clothes to dance on the men and the props and to crawl around on the floor, while Thicke, T.I, and Pharrell are fully clothed and always standing upright. The goat and stuffed dog are given more respect within the video than the women, and one point Thicke blows cigarette smoke into the face of one of the women and makes her choke. Forty years of supposed growth and women are still just as much objects in media as toys and shoes. The women in the Weyenberg advertisement and Robin Thicke’s music video are both presented as lesser than men and are treated as nothing more than
They say that shoes are the best friends of a woman. Fashion lovers around the world have dozens of pairs of shoes and some devote their entire time to get the best pairs in their collection. You may also have heard the famous phrase on everyone's lips : "The voices tell me to buy more and more shoes", not to mention the famous character Carrie in Sex and The City who testified at one point that prefers to keep money in sight, that invest in shoes. Incidentally, this passion for shoes does not come with age but still unwittingly cultivated during childhood.
Shoes have always been something that women want to go shopping for. Over the latter part of this century, it has become more likely for women to buy many shoes because of the growing diversity of shoe fashion. Shoe manufacturers have taken advantage of this growing diversity to create as many types of shoes as they can. Ladies shoes can be classified into three categories: cheap shoes, moderately priced shoes, and expensive shoes.