High Heels, Short Toes

According to the Boston Globe some women are getting little toes surgically removed so as to fit into elegantly tailored high heeled shoes.  Now as any half-way sensible person will tell you, this is a less than wonderful idea.  Is it really worth a lifetime of gimping around the place for the sake of squashing your foot into clearly inappropriate footwear for a sequence of evenings out in your twenties and early thirties?  You know you're only going to be slobbing around the place in those big clompily comfortable trainers when you've got a couple of kids and your idea of a big night out is a bottle of wine and the X Factor final.  I sincerely hope that this story falls under the category of Urban Legend.


Source:  Boston Globe