The Buzz: Scary shoes serve as commentary on standards of beauty

(WPRI) — Women will go far for fashion, but is this too far? These latest shoes are creating quite a buzz online! Dubbed "scary beautiful", the massive heels appear backwards on the foot, so the wearers feet point straight down the back, as if in ballet shoes, with their shin leaning against the front "heel" end of the design to balance.
    
The shoes are a collaboration between a Dutch artist and a shoe designer, created as commentary on today's impossible standards of beauty.
    
These "works of art" seem to support a recent British study that found 40% of women choose their shoes purely for how they looked and not how they felt on their feet.

The study also found that a third of women who have tried on uncomfortable shoes buy them anyway because they looked good.

Sixty two percent of women revealed that they spend at least one day a week wearing uncomfortable shoes, with 48% hoping to wear them in until their feet get used to them. And more than half of women keep uncomfortable shoes for up to a year before giving up on them despite only wearing them once.