People who are into 3-D stuff really appreciate shoes. What's amazing about them, she added, is that the designer creates a work of art, but it must always conform to the basic shape of a human foot. They can be creative, but only within certain constraints. So they use colors, stitching and different materials to create variation. Consumers, Scovel said, often have a love-hate relationship with footwear.
Shoes delight our soul, but they also can pinch our toes.
You associate both pleasure and pain with them. Sometimes you have to make a sacrifice in comfort to wear high heels. It's not sexist to say that women are the shoe-loving gender, Scovel says. With men, it's all about comfort and function. Women are even into shoes they can't wear, it seems.