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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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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