New(?) names for open-toed shoes ...
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon May 12 20:32:49 UTC 2008
... as they were known in my youth:
Peek-toe shoes
Peep-toe shoes
Show-toe shoes
Toe-cleavage shoes
As far as I can tell, nobody uses "open-toed" anymore. But I don't get
around much.
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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