#3430 More Movie Foot scenes (Television) Posted by Kinja on April 22, 2000 at 08:14:46
On a Christmas episode of Laverne and Shirley, the girls were there to fight the shopping crowd and a blue light special occurred near where they were. The crowd was very rowdy and Laverne got pushed into some sort of a cart or buggy, which left her trapped with both feet up in the air. She was wearing loafers with socks. Some guy walked by and pulled off one of her loafers and went away. Laverne needed help form Shirley to get out of the buggy so she was unable to locate the guy in the crowd by the time she was free. She spent much of the episode wearing one shoe but near the end, while outside collecting for a charity, the guy came by and donated the shoe.
On the short-lived show, the Charmings, where Snow White and Prince Charming are transported to 1990's LA. One episode, the Snow White's wicked step-mother zaps Cinderella into their house, which causes a jealous stir. She loses one or both of her shoes several times during the episode. The most interesting one is when Cinderella comes into the Living room in a sexy nightgown and finds Prince Charming (Eric) on the couch after a fight with Snow White. He asks her why she was out there. She replies, "I was looking for my lost glass slipper." He finds it under the couch and she wants him to put it back on for her - he refuses with honor to his wife, Snow.
This one is probably the sexiest shoeplay/loss situ I’ve ever seen on TV. Some of it was cut for syndication but most remained. One morning on WKRP in Cincinnati, Jennifer (Loni Anderson) wanders into Johnny Fever's (Howard Hessman) studio on a cold morning and the heat is not working well. She is wearing a fur coat and sexy slingback heels. She sits on a table and crosses one leg in front of his face. He comments on it being not much there. She pulls one off and begins to tell how she had flown to Dallas to purchase them. She lets Johnny hold it and it is almost to much for him to take. He runs the insole on his cheek and repeats how nice they are. During this time, he has poured each of them some vodka and she is getting a bit tipsy. She tells Johnny he can keep it for a souvenir. She walks off with one shoe ends up talking to her bosses mother (who is the station owner) and her missing shoe is not discussed but shown by her limp. Johnny comes into the office with her shoe in his hand, but she says nothing. The shoe gets passed off to another coworker, Andy Travis (Gary Sandy) who also carries the shoe in front of Jennifer. Finally, while sitting at her desk she asks Andy if that's her shoe (Implying she was too drunk to remember giving it to Johnny), she asks him to put it on her, but he just can't do it. He quickly hands it back to her.
I was watching the 1994 Miss Teen USA pageant and during the intro, one of the girls stepped out of a shoe - a gold colored pump. She struggled to get it back own but ended up pushing it farther away. The camera shifted and when it returned she had been wise enough to kick the other one off stage and continue the dance routine. You could see one of the shoes still on the stage until the emcee did his intro. During this time of introductions, someone must have retrieved her shoes and she got them back on.
There was a short-lived show on ABC in the Spring of 1985 called Eye to Eye starring Stephanie Faracy and Charles Dunning. They were a father-daughter detective team that got their start when Faracy's character's husband was murdered. They made her character clumsy and klutzy. There were only 6 episodes produced and aired, but in at least 2 of them she had shoe trouble. One time she was running down some steps out of a courthouse and one of them flew off and she had to retrieve it. Another time, she was trying to walk across a wet grassy area and 2 or 3 times a heel stuck in the ground and she came out of a shoe and had to go back and get it. Anyone have other TV scenes to post?
#3431 Posted by kinja one April 22, 2000 At 08:16:14
There is has commercial Hanes pantyhose where has lady struggles with has shoe while trying to get into has taxi. She barely gets it before the taxi drives off. Another Hanes commercial has has Cinderella theme with has lady losing has backless high heel slide walking down the stairs to the Ball. (Of race the Prince is there to retrieve and replaces her shoe At the bottom)
Payless Shoe Store has run has couple of interesting ads with the theme - "You never know when you' ll need has new even of sneakers/pumps, etc..." Commercial One has has majorette in the band marching in A parades who performs has high kick and sends has tennis shoe through the air and down into has manhole in the street. Another one has has woman and has dance instructor one has boat. She gets dipped and she flings one of her red pumps into the air and into the ocean.
#3432 More Movie Foot scenes Posted by Kinja on April 22, 2000 at 08:17:41
One scene I saw partially and have not been able to find again is in the Barbara Eden/Pat Boone movie - All Hands on Deck. Barbara Eden loses one of her high heels toward the end of the movie and is in one shoe for several minutes. I cannot remember the scenario however. Anyone seen it and can remember the plot?
There is a movie from a few years ago with Drew Barrymore - Poison Ivy, which opens with Drew's character (Ivy) stopping on the way home form school at a tire swing which swung out over a small gorge, maybe 50 feet deep. She is daydreaming about being in a red sports car with some guy and she is hanging her right foot out the window. In the dream she is wearing boots and she slowly kicks the boot off while riding down the road in this car. She immediately wakes up and in real life, she has kicked off her boot into the gorge. Although her boot seems findable, if s he climbed down the embankment to retrieve it, she instead gets off the swing and walks off in disgust. She runs into a classmate, who asks her to come to her house to visit. She spends the next 30 minutes of the movie walking around in just one boot.
Katherine Hepburn drops a red high heel out of her hand on the balcony of the man she dated briefly during a trip to Europe in the movie Summertime. She acted like she was in a love trance, hence explaining how she could drop a shoe and not realize it. It showed her walking home carrying one shoe, acting like she did not care. A Cinderella stage was set, but this time the Prince did not return it. Anyone have other Movie scenes to post?
#3433 Trade Shows Posted by Kinja on April 22, 2000 at 08:18:32
I saw a story on the Internet about a lady in a business situation at a trade show having taken her shoes (high heels) off and putting them under a table. She was ready to leave and went back to the place and found only one shoe. She feared that she’d have to leave shoeless until a while later when a guy showed up and knelt down with her other shoe and said he was her Prince Charming. Apparently he had admired her from afar and decided to try this unique method of getting a date with her. They ended up getting married.
#3434 Dangleometry Posted by Kinja on April 22, 2000 at 08:19:32
I saw an article in a magazine from 1952 that discussed how shoe makers were designing high heel mules to stay on better the article was called "The Stay On Shoe". (before the Internet, all we could do was do magazine searches on keywords) Apparently, this coincided with the mainstreaming of these type of shoes by the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. At one time, mules were relegated to the bedrooms (as bedroom slippers) and prostitution houses. They were designed to come off easily and were not really made for walking on public. Remember that at this time there were less paved roads and sidewalks than now so walking in shoes that came off easily was more hazardous. Women were starting to wear mules in public and, back then, this often meant after-dinner dancing. It seems that women complained that they had trouble keeping their mules on while dancing for obvious reasons. With no back, they will come off sometimes when you step back or kick. This article discussed how they had made a toe grip and had also redesigned the sole to not come off as easily.
Fast forward to 1978 when Dr. Scholl’s sandals were first popular. These also used a toe grip to help women keep them on easier. In fact, this toe grip was promotes as the "exercise".
Today, Clogs usually have alternate straps almost like training wheels. Girls who have trouble keeping them on can use the strap. They can also use the strap when they know they will need to be able to move faster and with more range. The 1990s have seen an explosion in the wearing of backless shoes. Most of them have been low heels or flats. Most backless shoe wearers will say that wearing them barefoot gives them more friction to keep them on than wearing them with socks, or even worse, hose or tights.
#3435 Restaurants Posted by Kinja on April 22, 2000 at 08:21:35
Restaurants and bars are good places for dipping, dangling and shoe play. People are usually relaxed and girls who dip and dangle will do that as much as they would anywhere else, even more when drinking and inhibitions drop. It is usually easy to sit in view of a lady doing one thing or another with her shoes. Some booths are designed to go all the way to the floor and in those seats, shoeplay is unlikely to cause any problems. Sometimes, booths have a several inch gap near the floor on the front and back. It is feasible that a girl could drop or spin a shoe into and through this gap to a place she would have to ask someone to retrieve it for her. The guy she’s with could also push the shoe (on purpose or accidentally) into this area. The girl after losing the shoe might need to go to the restroom or something and have to risk embarrassment from telling her date/husband she’s lost a shoe, or just go there wearing one shoe. Tables out in the open could lend to similar problems, but not as often would the shoe be out of the girl’s reach. Barstools sometimes pose a problem for dippers. These sit higher off the floor and provide little foot support. Danglers often drop their shoes and in a crowded bar could have to search for them a little.
A story I found on the Clog Page revealed a problem a dangler had that I would never have though of. She and her husband were in a crowded café and she had dangled one of her clogs until it fell off. She did not worry about it and just kept on eating. Meanwhile they noticed a 2 year-old child playing in the floor near their table, but did not think about it too much. Eventually they were ready to leave and she went to get her other clog back on. It was nowhere to be found. She ended up walking out barefoot and even later that day tried to buy a single clog to no avail. What I don’t know is why they did not search around in the café a little better. I can’t imaging that kids parents not noticing that their child was carrying a clog out of the restaurant. He probably just took it somewhere else in the café and left it (like under another table).
Sometimes in restaurants, one is in a business situation where losing a shoe makes one look unprofessional. Danglers have to be very careful here not to drop a shoe out of reach. Certainly many have had to embarrassingly ask someone else at the table to find their shoe for them and return it. A jokester co-worker might even hide the shoe from her and increase the embarrassment.
#3437 Church Posted by Kinja on April 22, 2000 at 08:23:31
Church is a similar situation to a theater except that multiple seats in the pew make up a wide chute. Accidental shoe losing is probably not as common since there is more light and less hidden areas. However, since people are usually sitting with friends or peers, and since girls are wearing dress shoes which are often uncomfortable or are easy to dangle and fall off, they are targets for pranks. Also, it is not easy for the girl to search for the shoe until the service is over. She may have to sit without her shoe for nearly an hour. I have heard of guys reaching ahead or behind the pew to get a stray shoe and being able to get others to cooperate by kicking the shoe down to the end of the aisle away from the girl or possibly forward to another pew. I can guess that permanent shoe loss is rare. However I suspect that since the original prankster may not know where the shoe ends up a girl has had to embarrassingly wait until the crowd clears out before she can get down on hands and knees and look under all the pews in the area. If the Church Service is before Sunday School, I could see someone taking the shoe and not returning it until Sunday School starts or even when its over, making her walk with one shoe from the service to the classroom and during class. This more often than not will be done by a guy who likes her. The expansion of backless shoes into the younger set probably has increased these sorts of incidents. Girls have their shoes off more often, they drop or kick a dangling shoe more often and they are easier to pull off by a prankster.
3459 Posted by Kinja on April 24, 2000 at 23:17:38
I have seen stories about girls who had a shoe fall off getting off/on the subway and falling into what is called " the gap " caused by the train not stopping close enough to the platform. When she stepped over the gap, one fell off and down. This would to require a maintenance worker to retrieve it, but most likely, the person would have to leave with one shoe and return later to claim it, or wait a while for it to be received.
I saw a post recently on the Clog Page. A girl was on a business trip to San Francisco and was wearing clogs after her meeting and boarded one of the famous cable cars. During a stop a seat opened up nearby, but she had to spin through a crowded streetcar to get to it. When doing this, she accidentally kicked one clog off the moving car. She commented that a clog can be completely lost. I have no idea whether or not she was able to later go back and retrieve it. It is possible that it got smashed by to car or truck and was not wearable even if she found it. She would have had to make to good notes of to where it fell off, wait until the next stop and walk back to that spot, maneuvering through heavy downtown traffic. I am guessing she just went on with one shoe.
One of the most famous lost shoe stories on
the Internet is from the list of Job Interview Bloopers. To girl comes into the
interview wearing one shoe, someone stole it on the bus. What I’ve never heard
explained is if this was the truth or if she actually lost it in to more stupid
way and thought this excuse removed her blame.
#3467
Shoeplay done despite danger of losing one Posted by Kinja on April 26, 2000 at
06:40:53 Girls are
usually careful when they dip, dangle or engage in shoeplay, to do it in a
closed environment, not one that would lend itself to anything more than having
to look around to retrieve a fallen off shoe. An example of a dangerous
situation that I have not personally seen but have heard about, is a girl
dipping/dangling while standing next to a guard rail that has slits all the way
down to the floor - such as in a 2 story shopping center or mall. She
accidentally drops one shoe through the slit and has to walk quite a ways (over
to and down the nearest stair, elevator or escalator) to find it. The time may
be long enough that someone else could come along and take the shoe (even to
lost and found), or even throw it away or something. This situation would be
very embarrassing to the girl, since she would have to walk in one shoe,
possibly seeing people she knew. She would also have to remember where it fell
so she could look for it. It is possible that someone could see her drop it and
throw it back up to the second floor without her realizing it, making her
frantically look for a shoe that’s no longer there on the bottom floor, but
innocently back where it started. If she does not find the shoe, the question
arises - what does she do? She will probably report it to lost and found giving
her name and number where she can be reached. Since there are shoe stores in
every mall, she might buy a cheap pair and continue her shopping. Others may
just go home right then in disgust. Still a smaller number might just continue
with her plans wearing one shoe, hoping to come across it somewhere. Can anyone
else think of dangerous situations for dipping and
dangling? #3468 Cars
and shoe problems Posted by Kinja on April 26, 2000 at
06:42:02 There are entire
WWW sites devoted to pedal pushers. Yeah, there’s something sexy about an
attractive lady wearing nice shoes and driving in them. Some women take this
type of shoe off and drive barefoot. Others have mastered the gripping skills
needed to keep the shoe on while using the petals. The riskier side of driving
in backless shoes or any dress shoes is getting in and out of the car, though.
I’ve seen women put one foot in the car (as a driver or passenger) and while
dragging the second foot in, had the shoe get knocked off onto the pavement.
(For example, the heel may dangle off or naturally hang low in a backless shoe
and hit the edge of the car on the way inside) This normally causes only a
slight recovery to be needed. There is a movie
from 1965 with Woody Allen - What’s New Pussycat. A comedy where Woody Allen’s
character’s fiancée was getting out of a car and had her shoe fell off and onto
the pavement. This seemed to be something, not in the plot, but just allowed to
stay in the final release since it was not all that obvious - she just picked it
up and went on.In the original 1970 movie The Out-of-towners, (Jack Lemmon and
Sandy Dennis), Sandy’s character loses a shoe getting out of a police car. It is
very dark and they start to look for it when a truck comes by. Of course, the
truck runs over and flattens the shoe. They then find it after the truck passes.
*In V.I. Warshawski, Kathleen Turner also loses one shoe when being kidnapped by
the bad guys. An interesting thing about that one is that when she arrived at
the parking garage of the building where she was being taken, the driver opens
the door and she swings both feet out of the car to be led away. She does not
notice one shoe is gone, until her foot touches the concrete. She then turns
around to look in the car for it. One of the guys tells her she lost it on the
stairs. She gets mad that they did not retrieve it. She gets it back when she
gets home, BTW. Another
car-related story I saw in Readers Digest a few years ago - It might be an Urban
Legend. This guy had taken his beautiful secretary home from work and although
nothing had happened between them (she had gotten drunk at an office party) he
was afraid to tell his wife. That night he and his wife were going out to eat at
a nice place and were dressed up. About half way there, he happened to look
under the passenger seat where his wife was and saw a red high heel pump. He
figured it was the secretary’s so he distracted his wife getting her to look out
the right window. Meanwhile his window was open and he reached for and grabbed
the shoe and in one motion flung it out the window into an overgrown grassy
field. A while later, they arrived at the restaurant and he started getting out
of the car. He noticed his wife fumbling around on the floor. He went around to
the other side and asked what was wrong. She was wearing one red pump and was
perplexed trying to find the other one. "Have you seen my other shoe?" She had
taken them off during their drive to the restaurant. I don’t know the proverbial
rest of the story, but I guess it would depend on the woman. A free spirit might
go ahead and go in and eat wearing one shoe. Most would probably have their
husband out in that field, if he could find the right field, with a flashlight
to look for the other shoe. They probably would not have dinner out that night.
Cars are not the
only vehicles than can cause a problem. Motorcycles do not require foot action
(except when you start it or leave from a stopped position) during driving, but
the passenger would seem to have even more problems. It seems that a girl could
accidentally slip her foot out of a shoe while the cycle was moving and have it
fall off. Since the cycle might be going pretty fast, it might not land on the
road or near where it fell off and be difficult to find. Traffic might also
prohibit easy return. Motorcycles may be one source of shoes on the
road. #3479
Stairs/Bleacher/Escalator shoe problems Posted by Kinja on April 27, 2000 at
23:23:24 Stairs are a
common place for shoe loss to occur, normally the shoe is easily recoverable
unless someone wants to play a joke. I have seen several situations where a girl
lost a shoe going up stairs (must be more common than when going down). Each
case, the girl was quite embarrassed and was slow to retrieve it. One case was
at a college football game, a guy and his date were well dressed - the girl had
on high-heel pumps. They looked a little tipsy but not blatantly drunk. While
going up the concrete steps, the girl somehow came out of one of her pumps and
kicked it down a couple of rows down the steps. The girl eventually turned
around to look for it. Her reaction was actually slower than you’d think,
because the guy was unaware of what was happening and he was holding her hand.
She may have actually walked a step or two on one shoe before she was able to
get the guy’s attention. She walked down alone and picked up the shoe in her
hand and they walked on that way. Not sure why she did not just put it back on.
Gyms often have retractable bleachers, which means that there is a gap between
the seat and the floorboard, through which something would fall through (similar
to the story above). One would have to crawl through the metal structure to
retrieve a shoe should one fall through. I don't ever remember getting to see
that happen in real life, though I am sure it happens all the time. Escalators
cause less problems, however it is interesting to see women dip while going up
them. They could easily kick the shoe down to another step, of course it would
eventually come back to them. The bigger risk is in spiked heels having one get
caught in the gap where the stairs collapse and return underneath. I saw a photo
spread in a Life magazine from the 1950’s or 60’s (have not been able to find it
again since the original find) where Buenos Aires got its first escalator in a
store. It was causing many problems. Some women were taking their shoes off
before riding them. One picture shoed a shoe that had been left behind, etc..
#3503 Single
Shoes on the side of the road Posted by Kinja on May 01, 2000 at
22:48:00
One subject
worth discussing is seeing single shoes on the side of the road or even other
places in public. The first thing that crosses my mind is why did the person not
just go back and get it. I would think that one step they would feel a shoe on
and then one step they wouldn't. I have some theories on this situ. I think some
are thrown out of cars or busses - either on purpose or by accident. I can
easily see someone on a school bus taking someone's shoe as a joke and throwing
it out the window. In fact, one time I was on a bus while in school and a guy
took a girl's shoe and threatened to do that. He even held it partially out the
window but her protests were loud enough to make him change her mind. Instead,
he passed the shoe backwards on the bus. She just sat there with one shoe until
we got back to school then she got it back somehow with little
effort. Sometimes, a
shoe can break, especially a sandal strap. They might be not worth fixing and
the person just abandons it or throws it out the window. It is also possible
that someone could be riding down the road with a shoe out the window and they
fall asleep or they aren't paying attention and it falls off. If they know it
falls off, I would think that is the shoe was worth anything they would turn the
car around and retrieve it. Kids might throw their shoes out the window or even
those of a sibling, but most of what I see are adult shoes. Some shoes are seen
near bars, where drunk people might not be paying attention.
#3504 Candid
Camera Shoe Stunt Posted by Kinja on May 01, 2000 at
23:15:30 There was a
Candid Camera-type stunt I saw several years ago that was a staged office prank
caught on tape. A man goes to a ladies office and comes up with a reason to
borrow her shoe (I want to buy a pair for my wife and I want to go and write
down the brand and style name) This person seemed credible, but she did not know
his name or office location. The catch is that the guy has taken off with the
shoe not to return. The camera shows her in her office looking anxious and
eventually coming into the hall wearing one shoe to look for the guy. The prank
was eventually revealed and she got her shoe back. #3505 Father
taught his daughter that dipping was inappropriate Posted by Kinja on May 01,
2000 at 23:16:42 I read an
interesting story that was from the 1800’s. A father had a daughter (probably
about 16 years old) who was a dipper, dangler and shoeplayer. He thought that
was inappropriate behavior for a young lady. One night they were having dinner
with some other people at their house and he noticed she had kicked her shoes
off under the table while dipping and dangling. The father secured one shoe with
his foot and pulled it over out of her reach and asked her to go get something
for him - papers, contracts something like that. She scuffled around under the
table trying to get her shoes on and could only find one. Her father repeated
his request a little firmer and since she did not want to admit her shoeplay,
she had to walk to another part of the house wearing one shoe. The story said
she did not shoeplay again. #3506 Shoe
Stores Posted by Kinja on May 01, 2000 at 23:18:40 Shoe stores are
a good place to watch shoeplay and other related activity. One TV scene that was
spliced out partially by newer syndication appeared on the My Three Sons show in
the late 60’s. There was an episode where Ernie thought he was a jinx. Several
bad things happened in his company that episode. One scene had him and his
step-mom and Katie in a shoe store. Katie had tried on several pairs and there
were some boxes still there, but some having been already returned to the back.
Sometimes when you get a shoe from the back there’s only one and the display is
out in the store somewhere. Anyway, they are getting ready to leave and Katie
cannot find one of her shoes. The clerk surmises that he put her other shoe in
one of the boxes and placed it up on the shelf. The scene now cuts away quickly
after this discovery. What I remember from the 70’s, this scene actually
extended to show them leaving the store, Katie wearing one shoe and the clerk
saying he’s call her when he found it. I have read that a lot of shoe store
clerks have a preference for shoes and/or feet. I sometimes wonder if any real
life situations occur similar to what happened to Katie. <p>There are a
lot of women going around in a sea of boxes, store samples and discount racks.
They will often take off a shoe, leave it in one place and go around testing
samples. I can see where it might be easy for someone to mistake the shoe
(especially if it is almost new) for one on the display counter or the discount
rack and move it to one of those places. Anyone seen this happen in a shoe
store? 3576
Commercials Posted by Kinja on May 07, 2000 at
19:54:05 There is a Hanes
pantyhose commercial where a lady struggles with a shoe while trying to get into
a taxi. She barely gets it before the taxi drives off. Another Hanes commercial
has a Cinderella theme with a lady losing a backless high heel slide walking
down the stairs to the Ball. (Of course the Prince is there to retrieve and
replace her shoe at the bottom) Payless Shoe Store has run a couple of
interesting ads with the theme - "You never know when you’ll need a new pair of
sneakers/pumps, etc..." One commercial has a majorette in the band marching in a
parade who performs a high kick and sends a tennis shoe through the air and down
into a manhole in the street. Another one has a woman and a dance instructor on
a boat. She gets dipped and she flings one of her red pumps into the air and
into the ocean. #3577 Movie
Theater Posted by Kinja on May 07, 2000 at 19:54:47 Movie Theaters
pose an interesting shoeplay situation. Shoe dippers, danglers and players think
they are in a controlled environment, but it’s not as closed as they think.
Seats rowed up create chutes, so to speak, and there are a lot of people in
close proximity who can accidentally or even purposefully affect things. The
most innocent incident is when a girl has one or both of her shoes off and a
person comes through the aisle past her to get to their seat. It is especially
easy to see how they could kick one of the shoes down the aisle without knowing
it. Most of the time, however, the girl will try to find her shoe(s) and get
them out of the path before the person comes by. There is an old Candid Camera
scene I saw (a b/w clip) only once where three girls were sitting behind one
another. The one in the middle wore black pumps and the ones in front and back
wore white pumps All three dipped and accidentally pushed one shoe up ahead
under the seat in front of them. The comedy was when the movie they were
watching was over. The front and middle girls were wearing one white and one
black pump. The back girl was looking for her other shoe (which was actually
walking out the door), and the nearest free shoe was 3 rows in front, possibly
too far up to be considered a viable looking place. This was obviously staged
because the girls had to be sitting just right in a row and the camera had to be
planted, etc.. There is a similar scene in an episode of Petticoat Junction
where one of the daughters (Betty Jo) is on a date and ends up struggling to
retrieve a shoe she’s kicked under the seat in front of her. I’ve also seen a
comedy short from the 1940’s where a woman loses a shoe under the seat and her
husband crawls under the seats looking for it. The end of the clip shows them
walking out, her still missing a shoe. Certainly the darkness of a movie theatre
plays a role. Someone might easily be able to find their other shoe in a lit
theater, but in a dark one, it may be more difficult. It is not too hard to
imagine a girl getting into trouble needing to go to the restroom but it being
too dark to see her stray shoe. Unless she finds it, she is left with the choice
of holding it in, or walking to the restroom in one shoe. On an episode of the
short-lived Joannie Loves Chachi, Joannie gets her ankle stuck between the seats
(something I have heard of happening). Chachi helps her get it out and in the
process, Joannie kicks her loafer several rows in front of them. I think the
show ended with them looking for it. #3579 Women
who play with their shoes so much that they lose without help Posted by Kinja on
May 07, 2000 at 19:56:12 I read a story
from a talk show host in England (Danny Baker) who posed this question - "Have
you ever lost your shoes." Most of the answers were uninteresting. One mentioned
the subway gap, another mentioned having one stolen while asleep on the subway,
but one was in a theatre (where a school group was attending a play). This girl
was a known dangler, she admitted. She was sitting in a stadium style bleacher
where there was an opening behind where her feet rested, but did not realize it.
She dangled a shoe until it fell off and it went under the bleachers. This area
where the shoe fell into happened to be only accessible from the basement, and
not by the public. In her embarrassment, she wrapped a colored scarf around her
shoeless foot and stood in the lobby, not sure of what to do, wondering if there
was some way to retrieve the shoe before having to leave. About that time a
maintenance worked tapped her on the shoulder and asked her if that was her shoe
he had found and brought upstairs. #3580 Leaving
shoes behind Posted by Kinja on May 07, 2000 at
19:56:49 Sometimes you
see a shoe somewhere totally unexpected. I was walking from my dorm to the
cafeteria one day while in college on a spring day and on the sidewalk, I saw a
blue thong sandal. This was not a cheap flip flop, but one with a leather sole
and a patent leather insole with two 1/2 wide wishbone shaped straps. (Around
that time many of the sorority girls wore that style) If the girl was walking
along wearing the shoe, surely she would have stopped. The parking area was for
staff only so it is unlikely it was lost coming in or out of a car. About the
only thing I could figure was that she was walking home and decided to take her
sandals off and carry them on her books and one fell off without her
knowing.<p>Beaches are havens for finding one shoe. I can think of several
possible reasons. One, someone may take off their shoes too close to shore and
the tide comes in and takes one or both away. Secondly, someone may try to walk
into the water wearing shoes and have one come off in the current and float out
of reach or submerse in the riptide. Also, beach shoes are less expensive,
usually, and one may take a risk with them (one of the ways just mentioned) or
they are otherwise less careful. #3581 Kicking
a women's shoe while dipping or playing with it. Posted by Kinja on May 07, 2000
at 19:57:25 Most of what I
do is observe shoeplay and shoe loss situations I have nothing to do with. The
times I have done something it's been moving a shoe. usually just enough to make
her stop and look a short distance away for it, because that is not as likely to
get you in trouble (I've actually never been caught), nor is it likely to cause
as much guilt, as totally taking away a shoe. It is also a bit more harmless.
One thing that occurred in Jr. High, involves a girl, named Linda, wearing
closed-toe suede mule-type clogs with a low heel. These shoes were unusual in
that they were really not a clog or a mule per se. They were attractive though,
to me, especially since she wore them with white sheer hose. We both played
clarinet in the Jr High band and were adjacent chairs, meaning I got to sit by
her. She only wore these shoes once, when I was around, to a band concert we did
in another town. I think these were new shoes and she was not used to backless
shoes (only Candies and Dr Scholl’s were in style then) and I also think the
hose and suede upper made them slippery. I remember walking in line (she was
behind me) from the bus to the place we gave the concert. She accidentally had
her shoe come off a couple of times. I thought about kicking it a little to
tease her, but we were being watched pretty closely by the band directors and we
were in that "contest serious mindset." She griped a little about the trouble
she was having. During the concert, she dipped a little, probably because they
were loose. Back on the bus, she happened to sit with me. Before the bus left,
she had to help someone pass a crate full of music down the aisle by turning
around and passing it to the seat behind us. Linda turned around and placed her
knees in the seat, which left her shoes pointing toes down. As you might expect,
one of them fell off. My first thought was to kick the shoe forward, but that
was in the direction of the chaperones. I decided to push the shoe a couple of
feet toward the back, just enough to make her look for it. When she turned back
around, she looked down and did not see the shoe and did not really try to look
for it at first. She seemed to think it had been taken and hid somewhere. She
asked if I had seen it, not in a blaming way, however. I suggested it might have
fallen under the seat. She first looked under the seat in front of us and did
not see it. She sat back and acted for a moment like she would be content to be
with one shoe. She eventually got out in the aisle to look under our seat and
knelt down and retrieved the shoe. She dipped and dangled some on the way
back. Another Linda
band story - this time a High School Band Christmas Concert at School. Once
again I sat next to her, this time because we both played Bass Clarinet that
semester. [If you are not familiar, the Bass Clarinet looks like a Tenor Sax -
long with a crooked neck. it also has a peg that allows you to rest it on the
floor. We were divided into two different bands and our’s went first. We had to
basically sit through the second band's part. Linda was wearing cloth upper,
wedge cork heel (1.5") dress shoes, again, not normal candidates for shoeplay.
During our boring wait, she was playing with her shoes, dipping and eventually
spinning and taking them completely off. While Linda was talking to the girl at
her right, I snagged one with my instrument peg and pulled it back a couple of
feet in between our two folding chairs. She did not notice at all. Later I got a
bit more daring and I was able to swing her shoe behind her seat and under the
seat to her right. More time went by and finally she went to put her shoes back
on. She put one on and felt around for the other one. Oddly, she turned to the
girl next to her and laughingly said, "One of my shoes is gone." Again she
looked around a bit and asked me if I've seen it, but not in an accusing way. It
took a while but she finally looked over the seat to her right and retrieved it.
As an aside, I always thought Linda was pretty and nice but I was too chicken to
ask her out. I never thought she'd be interested in me. We were in school
together from 6th grade through 12th and to my surprise, in 12th grade near
graduation; she told me she had had a crush on me the whole time. I still never
did ask her out, figuring going off to different colleges we'd not have much
chance anyway. Thinking back, I should have at least gone out with her.
#3582
Reminiscences From University Posted by Kinja on May 07, 2000 at
19:58:06 In College, in
first quarter History class we met in a very large room, alphabetically. I sat
on the end of a row next to Sandy, who was attractive and quick when we met to
tell me she had a boyfriend with a 4.0 GPA in Accounting. Anyway, she was a
frequent shoe dangler, dipper, etc. and one day she was wearing suede loafers,
nothing fancy, and she took them off to tuck her feet under herself while
sitting. Noticing this, I decided to push one shoe under her seat, easy to find,
but not immediately obvious. When it was time to go, she scrambled with her feet
to put her shoes back on. She started by putting the wrong foot in the single
shoe that was left. Then she adjusted and put the correct shoe on. She looked
around for the other shoe and was distressed. She seemed to not know where to
look except down the row and in front of her. She finally looked behind her and
found it, after I suggested it might have been pushed under the seat. Again - no
accusation and I actually had to help her find it. I think this distressed her
somewhat to the point where she did not do this again the rest of the term.
Also in college,
I was at a senior dinner for a group I was involved with and eating at an
antique table with a long white tablecloth. There were maybe 16 of us seated. It
was time for us to leave and Sandy (a different one from above with the same
first name), the girl I liked and was sitting next to, did not want to get up
and looked embarrassed. Someone asked what was wrong and she said she had lost
her shoe under the table. Another girl agreed that it happened to her all the
time also. Instead of looking immediately she acted more embarrassed. I had time
to glance under the table and see the shoe about a foot out of reach (she had
been dangling, which she was known for.) I had time to kick the shoe another
couple of feet across the table. She was still slow to look and I had time to go
around to the other side and push the shoe even farther down the table
vertically. She now looked and only looked at close range. She did not see the
shoe, so she walked wearing only one shoe around to the other side of the table
and found it. As oblivious as she seemed, I probably could have moved it a third
time with out her realizing it. What she was wearing was a good candidate for
dangling, patent leather flats. The combination of those shoes and the slick
hose caused the back of the heel to drop when her legs were crossed. In fact,
after dinner we were seated in a circle and she dangled constantly. She even
dropped the shoe out of reach again in front of everyone and had to stretch to
reach it. #3600
Throwing Shoes Posted by Kinja on May 09, 2000 at
17:50:57 One odd thing
that women do with their shoes is throw them - usually at people and sometimes
at things. It’s usually done a
moment of anger or disgust, without a lot of foresight.
There is one
movie scene and one TV scene I have seen where a girl threw a shoe and her plan
misfired. One was in the 1947 movie
the Egg and I, starring Fred McMurray and Claudette Colbert.
A much more
recent example was on a show form last season’s Spin City - it first aired
12/08/98. They were having the
Mayor’s Costume Ball, and the girl, Nikki, who liked and briefly dated Mike (J
Fox) was wearing an outfit similar to Cinderella.
Something that
happened in School: A guy was flirting with his girlfriend in the library, who
was wearing clogs. He took one off of her clogs and was playing keep away. He
eventually threw it in the corner where the bookshelves were about 7 ft. high
and came together at the front corner. He may (or may not) have realized that
the corner was not covered, and the bookshelves created a 7 ft. deep, 9-inch
wide hole. It of course fell into it. I am guessing that eventually, someone (a
janitor maybe) fished it out, but I saw the girl 3 hours later between classes
still wearing one clog. #3656 Ladies
on Live TV Broadcasts Posted by Kinja on May 13, 2000 at
15:39:21 I had a comment
to make about the discussion in the past about live TV broadcasts. This includes
news programs, talk shows (nearly live) and home shopping channels. For the most
part, camera operators are instructed to focus on the person speaking or the
action taking place. This is why the camera often focuses <br>on the area
between the head and stomach. They are also usually instructed to not show legs
unless it is pertinent to the action.
Moving legs are distracting.
Of course there's legs/feet/shoes we'd like to see as is often discussed
in length on this board. There are some exceptions, such as Entertainment
Tonight which installed a see through table so Mary Hart's attractive and highly
insured legs could be seen. On Fox and
Friends, E.D. Donahey's legs are partially seen mostly form the calves and up,
but this is because they are wanting to include Steve and/or Brian in the shot.
I have noticed that this spring she has started wearing backless mules and
slides some. Before she almost always wore pumps.
On David
Letterman and Jay Leno, if you notice, even in the two person shots, if there is
a female guest, even if she has a leg crossed, the camera usually stops at
ankle-level on the crossed leg - sometimes you can see glimpses of dipping or
dangling when her legs moves up, but you rarely see much.
The VH-1 show
The List where a guest host and 4 guest celebrities decide what the top songs,
groups, etc... (music related) is a good show for showing leg/foot/shoe
action. The camera at times shows a
shot of all 5 guests facing the host with two guests on each side pairs facing
each other. The shot shows their
whole bodies, but at some distance.
The best shots are when they focus on one pair of guests and here is
where any shoeplay can be seen. I've seen very little actually, but this is one
show that doesn't try to hide the legs of its guests. There is one
local station around here with a morning talk show with a husband/wife host and
two other regulars that sit on stools with nothing in front of them (plants,
tables, etc.). The show doesn't have shoeplay (at least I've not seen it) but
the wife is attractive and maybe 30ish in age.
#15796 Posted by kinja on July 12, 2002 at 23:29:21:
Fantasy Week of Prime Time TV
This is a follow up to my original post from April 3, 2001, "A Fantasy Day of Live TV." In this post, I consider how the writers of Prime Time TV could purposefully intergate one shoe scenarios into some of their shows. Here are a few script ideas for some of my favorite shows, one for each day of the week. To my knowledge, despite the fact that each of these shows have attractive women who wear pretty feminine shoes, none of have ever had a legitimate shoe loss situation.
I invite and challenge everyone to submit your own TV show plot ideas in a reply to this post. My apologies to those who are unfamiliar with American television. Please feel free to submit plots to your own local TV shows.
Sunday: Alias (ABC 9PM ET)
Series star, the beautiful double agent, Sydney Briscoe, is working undercover while attending a party at a banquet room at a large hotel in Los Angeles. She in disguise and dressed in a red evening dress and matching red mules. An accidental visit to the kitchen leads her to discover an underhanded scheme being acted out. Her plans to investigate it go awry when she is discovered and has to run. While going down a long hallway she kicks off one of her mules by accident. But she takes advanatge of the opportunity and picks up the mule and throws it at her chaser and it hits him in the center of his forehead and knocks him out. She continues to run in only one shoe and escapes to her sportscar in the parking deck. Meanwhile, her father and fello agent, Jack, discovers the agent whom she knocked out and he collects her shoe and destroys it to remove the evidence against his daughter. She returns home with her disguise removed but still wearing one shoe. Her roommate, who knows nothing about her being a spy, teases her about partying too hard.
Monday: Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS 9PM ET)
(Note: This show offers a good opportunity to re-enact a popular Joke/Story found in Readers Digest and all over the Internet that involves a husband and a wife and a humorous shoe loss.)
Series star, the often goofy husband, Ray Barone attends an office party after work at the New York newspaper where he works as a sports columnist. One of the secretaries has a bit too much to drink and is not in a condition to drive. Ray is designated by his co-workers to be the one to take her home. He first declines since this is a woman who, in the past, his wife, Debra, has teased him about having a crush on. Ray had made the mistake of telling his wife about the attractive new secretary. Ray leads her to his car - she is visibly carrying her pretty high heels in her hand then - and drives her straight home. That night, Ray's parents had agreed to take care of the kids and let him take Debra out to a nice dinner out at the Hamptons on the end of Long Island. Debra is dressed nicely with a pretty dress and a pair of dressy high heel mules. Not used to such high heels - and especially mules, Debra takes of her shoes in the car and stretches her feet out in front under the dash, out of Ray's view while driving. A little later, Ray looks down and sees one of Debra's shoes on the floor unoccupied and thinks it is one of the shoes the secretary left behind when he took her home. Ray devises a plan to hide his afternoon innocent escapade. First, he rolls down the window part of the way noting that the night air felt nice and cool. Debra does not object and she rolls down her window a little as well. By now, they are on a sparce section of a two-lane highway and it is dusk but not yet dark. Then, Ray points to the right for Debra to look at a non-existant deer on the side of the road. When she looks, Ray quickly but carefully reaches down and grabs the apparently incrimitating shoe and tosses it out the window, not looking to see where it fell. Fifteen minutes later, they arrive at the restaurant and Debra seems nervous as Ray starts to exit the car. She asks Ray if he's seen her shoe and soon they are looking all over the car for it. Ray has some lame ideas of what happened but Debra soon gets upset then accuses Ray of losing her shoe somehow. Ray finally confesses his 'crime' and Debra is mad he did not think she would trust him concerning the secretary. Ray apologizes and asks Debra if she's ready to eat - thinking she will go ahead and enter in one shoe. Debra vehemently refuses to go in wearing one shoe and demands they go back to look for it. Ray tries to remind her that Cinderella did not mind being in one shoe and she became a princess. By now it is dark and finding the shoe seems impossible. Ray wants to make an attempt so he claims a particular area is where he tossed it. They pull off the side of the road, unknowingly it is very muddy. Ray gets out with the flashlight while Debra sits inside and sulks. He sees it is muddy and the shoe is not in sight so he gives up, promising to buy Debra a replacement pair. Debra is ready to concede that the only harm is missing dinner. Then Ray tries to leave and the wheels spin deep into the mud. They have to call the auto club and get a tow. Ray and Debra have to be taken home with her still missing one shoe. Ray's nosy parents are of course curious about how she lost the shoe but she and Ray refuse to tell them.
Tuesday: Frasier (NBC 9PM ET)
Radio Psychiratrist, Frasier Crane and his show producer, Roz Doyle fly to Denver to attend a one day radio talk show syndication conference. Both attend well-dressed and Roz wears a new pair of 4" open-toed black slingbacks with gray nylons. They have to spend an afternoon in a convention hall at a booth where potential advertizers and radio station program directors stop by to talk with them about their show. Over time, Roz allows her slingbacks to slip down to where she is wearing them like backless slides. This facilitates shoeplay and dipping from behind the table they are standing behind, but still in view of some. At one point they get so uncomfortable that she decided to ditch them all together and slips them under the table. Frasier expresses his dismay over her lack of professionalism and a person passing by hears his comments and glances under the table and sees her abandoned shoes. Later, taking the opportunity when Frasier is talking to someone and Roz is busy getting something from the back of the booth, the person who overheard Frasier before quickly bends down and takes one of Roz's shoes form under the table and leaves the convention hall. A couple of hours later, Roz and Frasier prepare to leave and she is horrified to find a shoe missing. She and Frasier get on hands and knees on the floor to look for it to no avail. Frasier suggests she go up to her room for a replacement pair, but she did not bring any other dress shoes. Roz is forced to remain in one shoe walking out of the convention hall and into the banquet room for dinner. They happen to acquire several new sponsors and new syndication markets from men who likes the sight of Roz in one shoe.
Wednesday: Ed (NBC 8PM ET)
Ed, Carol, Molly, Mike, and Nancy are in the smiling goat enjoying hamburgers and beer, just chatting about nothing. The conversation changes to alternate professions each of them would do if they had unlimited time and money. During the conversation, high school English teacher, Carol, is dipping and dangling one of her pretty high heel pumps. It is bowling alley lawyer, Ed Stevens's turn to reply and he sees Carol Vessey's dangling shoe and he reaches down and takes it off and begins to describe it as if he were a QVC on-air salesman. In turn everyone else takes their turn describing Carol's shoe. When physician, Mike, finishes his fun description, he non-chalantly places it on the tray of an unassuming barmaid who takes it away. Carol protests and asks Mike to get it back for her. It tales a few minutes to track down her shoe.
Thursday: Friends (NBC 8PM ET)
Several months after the birth of Rachel Green's daughter, romance blossoms again for her and the baby's father, Ross Geller. Monica and Chandler Bing, who are thinking about having kids themselves, offer to keep the child while Rachel and Ross go away for a relaxing weekend. They drive up to Boston and are greeted by several mishaps. They have to change a flat tire on the way, they get in a large traffic jam and miss the first night's dinner reservations. The nect day, it rains and a few other things happen. Finally, they have a nice dinner at a restaurant downtown and take a walk through Boston Commons. As they share a romantic kiss on a bridge over one fo the ponds in the park, she involuntarily lifts her left leg and her high heeled mule slips off and falls between the railing into the pond. It is dark and they cannot find the shoe. They are forced to walk back to their hotel with Rachel one-shod.
Friday: Providence (NBC 8PM ET)
Series star, Dr. Syd Hansen is shown in an opening series dream having just danced and kissed her Attorney friend, Owen Frank, who helped her get out of her malpractice suit. Her mother gives her advice as she ignores it and loses one of her shoes before riding away in a carriage. She wakes up and looks around and sees that one of her high heel pumps is missing. A flashback reveals that the night before, she and the attorney were on a date and she got one of her shoes stuck in a grate in the sidewalk downtown after dinner. When he pulled on her shoe, the heel broke off. Syd, tossed the shoe away in the gutter and he eventually took her home one-shod.
Saturday: That's Life (CBS 8PM ET)
(Note: Sadly,this show has been cancelled by CBS, but consider this scene as a missed opportunity.)
Series star, Lydia DeLuca is having a busy day trying to juggle her waitress duties at the family restaurant and school at the community college. To complicate matters, her old car is in the shop again and she is having to rely on public transportation to get to and from class. She finishes a shift at the restaurant and hurriedly changes into school clothes including a pair of loafer mules. She gets to the bus stop just as the bus is starting to pull out so she begins to run. The bus slows down enough to let her board, but as she does so, she kicks off her right mule into the path of the bus' right wheel. it happens so fast that Lydia can do nothing but watch as the bus pulls out and flattens her shoe. She had no spare time to get a new pair of shoes and wait for the next bus since she had a test to take in class that day. Therefore she was relegated to ride to school and walk into class missing a shoe, which garnered a lot of attention.
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