How many schools\colleges allow Bare feet?

Matje · Jun 13, 2012

I own several pairs of shoes which fit me quite well.

Renovatu · Jun 13, 2012

I saw one guy walking barefoot at George Mason University once. I don't know what GMU's rules say about that though.

Hadashi · Jun 13, 2012

You might think they fit you well, but here's the thing, take them off and look at your foot. Notice how the toes have all been bent inwards and some are twisted so the toenail points outward instead of up?

That's because a lifetime of wearing shoes has moulded your foot into a shoe shape, if your feet weren't forced into shoes from an incredibly early age they would be shaped like the ones I posted on page six and wearing shoes would be viciously uncomfortable for you. Much more uncomfortable than for someone like me who has simply given them up up.

Like I said - they aren't designed to the human foot at all. If they are comfortable it is just because you are used to it. Lip plates are comfortable if you have been wearing them all your life.

Have a look at this set of quotes from The Unfashionable Human Body.

By some atavistic quirk of nature, every normal baby is born with undeformed feet. The forepart of the foot—measured across the toes—is about twice as wide as the heel. The toes barely touch each other and are as nimble as fingers. Were the child able to keep up his toe-twiddling, he might easily retain as much control over his feet as over his hands. Not that we see anything admirable in nimble toes; they strike us as freakish perhaps because we associate prehensile feet with primitive civilizations. To our twisted mind, the foot in its undamaged state is anachronistic, if not altogether barbaric. Ever since the shoe became the badge of admission to Western civilization—in rural countries such as Portugal and Brazil the government exhorts peasants to wear shoes in the name of progress—we look down on barefooted or sandaled nations.

Shoes make the feet:

Since wearing shoes is synonymous with wearing bad shoes, the modern shoe inevitably becomes an instrument of deformation. The very concept of the modern shoe does not admit of an intelligent solution; it is not made to fit a human foot but to fit a wooden last whose shape is determined by the whims of the “designer.”

Also:

In both the manufacturer’s and the customer’s opinion the shoe comes before the foot. It is less intended to protect the foot from cold and dirt than to mold it into a fashionable shape. Infants’ very first shoes are liable to dislocate the bones, and bend the foot into the shoe shape. The child does not mind the interference; “never expect the child to complain that the shoe is hurting him,” says podiatrist Dr. Simon Wikler, “for the crippling process is painless.” According to a ten-year study of the Podiatry Society of the State of New York, 99 percent of all feet are perfect at birth, 8 percent have developed troubles at one year, 41 percent at the age of five, and 80 percent at twenty; “we limp into adulthood,” the report concludes. “Medical schools,” says Dr. DePalma, “fail almost completely in giving the student a sound grounding and a sane therapeutic concept of foot conditions.” And in Military Medicine one reads that “there has been no objective test that could be readily incorporated in physical examinations, or taught to medical students, pediatricians, or physicians in military and industrial medicine, that would enable them to recognize deformities of the foot . . .” In sum, physicians leave it to the shoe designer to decide the fate of our feet.

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