{"id":33158,"date":"2011-07-20T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=33158"},"modified":"2011-07-21T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:31:48","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-peds-display-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-peds-display-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O\u2019 The Day – Peds Display Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

When I was in my adolescent and teen years in Detroit, stuffing my big feet into high heels and T-straps, both of which looked far better sans socks, PEDS were a MAJOR revolution.\u00a0They were the very first commercially released beige skin colored socklets that acted like socks but were tucked well below the shoe line and made it appear that you were wearing nylons. Which I hated even more than heels.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure I had Peds on in this photo:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

In theory, Peds were brilliant. In practical application, they stunk.\u00a0Literally. After they slipped down into your shoe until it felt like you were walking on a clump of laundry, the heavy material they were made of soaked up pounds of foot sweat and smelled like they had been used to wrap fish in and left in a gym hamper for six months.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Still, I had quite an inventory of Peds to avoid the dreaded nylons and pantyhose. This might not have happenened had I discovered the beauty and necessity of coordinated socks and shoes, but that adventure into my own style wasn’t to happen for another decade or so.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

But back in the 1960’s, a girl needed to dress like a dainty girl. Or so I thought. And that meant wearing those damn heels. Or flats, but even those were still mostly worn without socks.\u00a0You can’t see them in the photo but this was my first time in high heels, at my sister’s wedding:<\/p>\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\n

I distinctly remember feeling my Peds slipping as that photo was snapped.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

This Peds display was a very early thrift shop find of mine. These days I’m much happier to stare lovingly at it than to have little socklets grip my foot like a python in a sauna and lose elasticity faster than a 90 year old.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in my adolescent and teen years in Detroit, stuffing my big feet into high heels and T-straps, both of which looked far better sans socks, PEDS were a MAJOR revolution.\u00a0They were the very first commercially released beige skin colored socklets that acted like socks but were tucked well below the shoe line … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,359,87,193],"tags":[61,3232,3245,2812,2813],"class_list":["post-33158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-hair","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-peds","tag-peds-display"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}