Women
of the world, you probably know this moment, too: You ask the polite
shoe salesman to bring you that snakeskin lace-up stiletto or navy
ballet flat in a 9 or 7 or whatever, and he brings a shoe that's two
sizes too small, purring a coy, "It's the only size left, do you want to
just trrrrrry it?" It's a valiant effort, but inevitably you gawk,
like, "What, am I supposed to just cut off my toes to fit into that?"
Well,
maybe. For years now, plastic surgery to alter women's feet to look
better and fit better in shoes has been on the rise. (Doctors can even
make your shoes feel better, thanks to strategic Botox injections on the balls of your feet.) Now, as The New York Times reported yesterday,
these operations are apparently more popular than ever, so if you
thought women's vanity was limited to our faces, chests, and love
handles, well, you're wrong. Plastic surgery is now a lucrative head,
shoulders, knees, and toes game — emphasis on the toes.
To prove their point, the Times highlights
one Beverly Hills doctor, Dr. Ali Sadrie, who says these elective
cosmetic foot surgeries are so popular that he coined cute little names
for them all, so patients can conveniently order them like they're
choosing the Mai Tai at Dry Bar (except scarier). These procedure names
range from the Perfect 10 (toe shortening) to the Model T (toe
lengthening) to the Cinderella, where Dr. Sadrie simply alters your foot
to the shape of a shoe you want to wear, but can't. Because, you know,
why buy another pair of shoes if your foot doesn't fit the first pair?
That would be crazy.
Photo credit: Catwalking
Via ELLE & Cosmopolitan
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