oh, there's always something else about my avi that was long before i found the black eyes - i'm always barefoot. =)

I used to do the barefoot, and still do when I can't find foot things I like. I used to do the barefoot in RL, too.

Then I ran into a foot pervert.

i'm always barefoot online.

real life, not so much.... it's cold in the winter!

Foot pervert? 0.0

I was barefoot after assembling my first outfit on UF4 because there were no sneakers LOL and no socks that I liked haha

then we got the Athletic Socks and the Sneakers and I wore those in the white colors for forever lmao

LMBO. I've barefooted in the snow! Just for a quick jaunt to grab something from somebody, or to make people wince, but I've done it.

I used to wear sandals and shorts in the snow in high school, even when doing marching band practice at 7AM in the winter. (I didn't go barefoot, but that's more a question of "I don't want to step on an object concealed beneath the snow" than anything.)

There was a girl in one of my college classes who refused to ever wear shoes. My biggest fear would be stepping in like poop or vomit or something and not knowing.

I used to barefoot as a kid... then I stepped on a bumblebee one summer, and then another one a few years later, part of a burning sparkler landed on my foot... and then I went shoes unless absolutely necessary. and now I can't hack going totally barefoot, because I hate feeling sand or dirt on my feet. 's why I like those weird-looking vibram fivefingers shoes.

my hubby has a pair of those! he loves them!

I love my pair. I just wish I had a pair better suited to winter weather. the pair I have's more for spring through fall.

hubby didn't wear his over the weekend when he shoveled snow, but other than that, he wears them all the time.

If you like them, more power to you -- wear them for comfort! -- but it should be noted that the supposed health-benefit claims that the manufacturer makes have been shown to not hold water, and that a shoe with a proper arch and ankle support and heel padding is better for your feet, ankles, knees, and back.

Yeah, shoes with all those support things hurt like *bad word deleted*. They make my feet go to sleep right up to my butt. lol I am health benefited by five fingers shoes, and by hideous old uggs. Like Den, I wish I could find waterproof and lightly insulated five fingers, because they are more comfortable than the uggs are for me. I also wish that I could find the dress shoe styles. But there are even fewer of those shoes that reach Canada than ever reach the States. Greedy Italian peeps keep them all for themselves. :p-cry:

If they hurt, then those aren't PROPER supports.

Any shoes with them, no matter the quality, get me. Guess my feet and back are improper? (<--bad joke)

Then you have fairly flat arches. It happens.

Yeah, I submitted a claim when they started taking 'em for that... but to be fair, my feet were hurting really bad when I first started wearing them, and over time, the parts of my feet that hurt the worst started feeling better. Likely because they were getting decent support and having a chance to heal in a good alignment instead of wonky like they'd been. (Years ago, my younger brother decided he'd be an ass and stomped on my left foot really hard, and since then, I've always had the part of the foot that he stomped on act up regularly. Nowadays, it's very rare for that part of my foot to act up.)

But yeah, it'd be nice if I could find more comfortable shoes like my fivefingers. I would have loved to have been able to buy a pair of black KSO-style ones, both for winter purposes and for cosplay purposes (Good shoes are CRUCIAL for that. I don't care if the character wears 5 inch spike heels. I refuse to put myself in a situation where I'm limping within an hour of being in costume!), but sadly, the style got discontinued...

I know how hard it is to find good shoes that fit. >_< I was PLEASANTLY surprised by the Chuck Taylor II when it came out -- that is seriously the first big-name shoe I've been able to put on my foot without replacement insoles or weird lacing or break-in time that fits my arches right.

No. Actually, I don't.

And that was me with the toe shoes.

Like Den said, it took a little while for my feet to adjust, because the muscles had atrophied from years of being squished into normal shoes. But once they got used to the new shoes, which was pretty quick (and involving nearly zilch blisters) my sense of balance got better too, and I stopped twisting my ankles and kicking myself in the ankles.

Haven't been to Unification in years, I hardly got into that place.
I came to this topic expecting to see that it's closed as well. It was less active than Ernya last time I was there.

o3o RedRum = Murder

it was pretty active in the UC2 chatbox xD the UF6 forums not so much.

For various reasons.

Never used it. I'm not a chatbox person.

I'm normally not either.. but that chat box was fun -sniffle- Kijame DK misses you! D; GothicDemon too

Redrum, I have a rp character with that name.

Sweet Tam I Am.
In my senior year of high school, my Urban Legends project team in English used the team name 'Red Rum She Said', and yeah, I don't know for sure but I'm betting the dude who came up with it got it from 'The Shining'.

On the topic of shoes, no shoe is comfortable to me, not really at least. My feet have like no arch...and it's hard to find shoes that fit.

didn't we have this discussion, either in this thread or somewhere else? that sounds really familiar. =)

That sucks, I just can't stand on anything with heels. Not even the smallest ones.

I've never really been able to tolerate heels for long, aside from ones where the height of the heel is no more than an inch and a half above where the ball of my foot rests, because that's the part of my foot that starts aching the worst after a little while.

It's incredibly difficult to find heels or platforms that fit that restriction (in addition to being available in wide widths).

I stick with flats when I bother to wear shoes in the first place. Even my boots normally are low-heeled.

i ave always worn flats because I am very tall. I've had a number of guys turn me down because I am taller than them. SO I don't know how to wear heels. But I am an alien, so I have to wear shoes with some sort of arch support because of flat feets.

It's also incredibly difficult to find flat dress shoes, I'm lucky to have managed for my best friend's wedding last year.
Thankfully I don't need dress shoes often.

Feets wise, I have arches. But I also have VERY high insteps, and wide feet and a back that cannot take any heel at all. Not even the normal rise of sneakers. Dress shoes? Nooooooooope. XD

Alien feets unite!

LMBO. This guy is the baby son of two DnD type parents who live in a tavern common room most the time, despite actually having their own place. He came out cybernetic, all red with a bit of another colour and some nice metallic trim. And he thinks it's a funny game to feed explosives to his necromancer mother's dead things.

That sounds kinda awesome. So he's a robot if I understand correctly?

Yup. He's a baby robot. Because his dad originally was an Autobot, but got yanked through a portal and got turned human when he arrived in the D&D-esque world.

I play his dad and his mum in the stories that Tam and I write about that world. :3

And yessss. Flat dress shoes are so friggin' hard to find, especially when one's not looking for ballet flat-style shoes. I tend to veer more towards mens' dress shoes for flats, when I have to find a flat dress shoe. Though to be fair, I would LOVE to own a pair of massively high platforms if the platform part was the shape of sole I like best. I'm trying to find a pair for a costume I want to make... and it's hard finding something that will work...

Ever considered orthotic inserts?

Like Den says. XD And he happened because some jerk threw stolen gas from the couch that gives babies if a man and woman wind up sitting on it together at them. They were kinda surprised when he turned out Transformer.

When he's not terrorizing his mom's dead things or scrapping with his bitty friends he's playing with his clockwork powered dead dog that an Outcast Engineer friend made for him.

I can't even get my feet into most of the men's shoes I've tried on. Instep issues.

I have triple narrow feet! And they are super long and flat and then I have hammer head toes. Anyway, I hate feet because my feet suck. xD

Growing up my feet were too long for girls shoes so I had to go to the mens section. And the shoes are never narrow enough so I just feel like I am wearing clown shoes. Lately I have just resorted to buying women's shoes one size too small so I can still look pretty.

I hear you on long narrow feet! Finding shoes for me often ends up as "Okay, which brand, style, and size has the arch in closest to the right place? Okay, now, is it possible for me to lace these things up tight enough that they don't fall off my feet?" And so I end up trying on just about every pair of shoes in the men's section between size 10 and size 11.5. :/

My mom used to joke that I don't wear shoes, I wear skis.