Can tell a lot about a woman from her shoes.


I wonder about Cleopatra’s shoes

and Helen of Troy’s shoes,

and also, did Mary Magdalene

wear nice, comfortable sandals?

What about Eleanor of Aquitaine,

the wife of Henry II

and mother of Richard the Lionheart,

were her shoes stylish

as Anne Boleyn’s must have been

or austere and sturdy as Joan of Arc’s?

We know that Jackie Kennedy Onasis

had fashionable shoes and Immelda Marcos

had thousands of them. Yes,

you can tell a lot about

a woman from her shoes,

but I’m not sure what, exactly.