> Aren't your toes jammed together when you're wearing shoes anyway?
They're not supposed to be, but most shoes are terribly fit if you have any sort of less than ideal feet.
It took me years to realise, but (alongside a whole host of other issues) I turn out to have pretty "wide" feet at the front.
After decades of wearing shoes the toes literally overlap, if I walk middle distances unless I add some sort of separator (e.g. toe socks, which is not comfortable as it forces toes apart when they got misshapen to bunch up) even in open-toed shoes my toes are so deformed they'll stab one another: the nail of the 5th and 4th toes will scrape against the previous toe until they break the skin and fill my socks with blood.
They're not supposed to be, but most shoes are terribly fit if you have any sort of less than ideal feet.
It took me years to realise, but (alongside a whole host of other issues) I turn out to have pretty "wide" feet at the front.
After decades of wearing shoes the toes literally overlap, if I walk middle distances unless I add some sort of separator (e.g. toe socks, which is not comfortable as it forces toes apart when they got misshapen to bunch up) even in open-toed shoes my toes are so deformed they'll stab one another: the nail of the 5th and 4th toes will scrape against the previous toe until they break the skin and fill my socks with blood.