It's interesting how many members here have quite polarised views about an item of footwear which half a century ago was considered perfectly normal by our parents and grandparents. Does it perhaps say something about attitudes today and that they are much less tolerant of any variations from the norm where clothing is concerned than was the case in those days? And yet people nowadays are supposedly much more tolerant of so many prejudices that blighted society in those days. I won't list them for fear of the inevitable retribution by the moderators but wearing a pair of shoes does seem fairly mild in comparison to so many of the injustices that I remember as a child in the 1950's taking place and which I could not then comprehend how any civil society could behave in such a way. I am sure many here are glad to see the end of those times but must be concerned that any prejudice still survives albeit on a supposedly trivial level such as what someone wears. Let us hope that it will be in our lifetimes that all such prejudices are a thing of the past.