Article: Shoe aficionado got to the sole of the matter.(News)

Byline: Margery Eagan

"The foot is an erotic organ and the shoe is its sexual covering." Footwear fashion is "podoerotic art." The shoes you choose are an eye into your soul. As for a woman's soul, well, be still one's heart. Heel to toe - not to mention trim ankle wrapped in skimpy straps - the female foot and its covering are just one great big erogenous zone.

"Men are still uncertain whether the greatest of all invention was the wheel or the high heel . . ."

The above thoughts are William A. Rossi's, late of Marshfield and Hingham, raised above his parents' shoe store on Columbus Avenue, Boston, where he first fitted shoes and no doubt ...

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