New(?) names for open-toed shoes ...

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:32 PM -0400 5/12/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>... as they were known in my youth:
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>Peek-toe shoes
>
>Peep-toe shoes

any relation to peekytoe crab?  I haven't seen those on feet, but
they do shoe...er, show up on menus.

LH

>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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