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Bare Feet - a fashion issue, a lifestyle choice, provocation, or simply a healthier way to walk...?

To me, barefooting is a bit of all of the above. My personal clothing preferences (slack-fit, sometimes baggy and rather colourful outfit) call for appropriate footwear: none at all (that fits my personal taste, at least...). Consequently, I appear like the 'eternal hippie' with my outfit, including my denial to wear shoes. Of course, living up to my personal preferences often causes reactions like giggling or laughter, looks of utter disbelief, scorn or even of open disgust, and considering these kinds of reactions, I might concur to the provocation issue as well... I am different than the others and I want these others to see it. By wearing anklets, silver toerings and other accessories of the like, I do add a certain portion of style of it, nevertheless, which then makes it possible to pursue my liking in pedal nudity (how's that to describe my preference in barefooting in a formal manner...? :)) even with a bit more formal clothing. Bare feet as a lifestyle choice and as a provocative gesture of protest against the bourgeois establishment became quite common during the hippie decades, the 1960s and 70s.
Today's barefooters understand their way of walking only partly as a reminescence of these times, bringing back the gentle feeling of the hippie era and mainly as the clearly visible expression of personal freedom, be they present-day hippies, company executives, high school or college students, teachers and lecturers, artists, authors...

Bare feet as part of my lifestyle and my preferred clothing - outdoors as well as indoors:


Note: the indoor photos were taken at the office where I work (on a Saturday, so that no bigwig could scold me.

The term lifestyle choice covers all of this... feeling different and displaying individuality, enjoying the feeling of different ground textures, feeling where you walk, thereby enhancing your tactile sense, taking delight in wiggling one's toes freely - be it in sunlit hot places, as well as in cool and rainy weather. Simply said: it feels good. And it also looks good: from an aesthetic point of view, bare feet look very attractive.
Even Leonardo da Vinci praised the perfection of their construction and their beauty. If you want to take a look, at how Leonardo depicted bare feet as a part of his art and scientific work, click HERE .
And the many celebrities shown barefoot, or stating their preference to go barefoot speak for themselves.

Bare Feet Rock...

(...or whatever other kind of music they may make... They can also get the blues, or kick up dirt the punky way... :))

or:

Bare Feet of the Rich and Famous.. :)

This little gallery is now splitted into individual sub-pages (where more than one barefoot image was found) and a general male and female barefoot celebrity page. Take your time browsing through them and enjoy your visit.

Lucy Lawless

Kate Bush

Tori Amos

Björk

Jodie Foster

Henry Rollins

Alanis Morissette

Cyndi Lauper

Sandra Bullock

Julia Roberts

Meg Ryan

Alisha's Attic

Meredith Brooks

Jewel

Helena
Christensen

Demi Moore

Jonny Lang

Deana Carter

Janis Joplin

Joss Stone

Special feature No. 1: Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky 4th

If you wish to see a list of some movies to watch out for, in which one or more characters are shown in their bare feet (Note: I am NOT referring to fetish or porn movies here!!!), just click HERE .

Special feature No. 2:

Paula Feldman - You do not know her...? THAT has to be changed!! Well, she is known in the New York area, and here's both a picture of her in her bare feet as well as what she says about herself (more about her music can be found on the web site of QORQ productions, which also offers a wide variety of her tapes. Her own homepage, formerly hosted at GeoCities, seems to be down at the moment, that is, at least the site is no longer there. As soon as that changes, I'll put some information on here.):

I'm a womyn/grrl/being type of thing. Actually, I'm a songwriter/performer living in New York's Capital Region and writing lots of songs about stuff (e.g. injustices, alienation, alien abduction, cross-dressing, nookie, the vagaries of love, "adultery, corridors, walnuts and things" - Peter Cook). I used to live in San Francisco; now I'm in hiding in the Obscure, yet Needlessly Xenophobic Performer's Protection Program (ONyX-P). Well ... actually, my body lies crushed beneath an avalanche of textbooks while my spirit roams free in cyberspace. People say I'm pretentious and I like that. I like Ani DiFranco, Alanis Morissette, Rickie Lee Jones, Patti Smith, Ursula LeGuin, Doris Lessing, Kate Millet, Noam Chomsky, Les Paul guitars and meaningful rebellions (among other things).

Get in contact with her, order one of her tapes ( Gabriel would be the best choice to get started, in my opinion...) and then get to know her music... I did, and well, it was special, all right. :)

(Her photo - from the inlay of her tape Gabriel - used with her permission.)

And now: The other barefoot celebs:

To the female celebrity page To the male celebrity page

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