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Article: A HISTORY OF THE WELL-HEELED SHOES HAVE LONG REFLECTED STATUS AND OPULENCE.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 29, 1997
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``Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but shoes are the gateway to the psyche.''
Linda O'Keeffe, from ``Shoes''
Linda O'Keeffe knew the average American woman owns 30 pairs of shoes, but she didn't know there were so many who owned hundreds.
In researching her new book ``Shoes,'' O'Keeffe spent two years visiting closets and vaults in U.S. homes and found shoe caches bordering on obsession: shoes stored in their original boxes, wrapped in tissue or flannel bags, even stored with a Polaroid photo on the outside of the box for easy identification.
``The first time I saw that I was stunned. Pretty soon it became the norm,'' O'Keeffe ...