According to a new national poll published in April’s ShopSmart magazine, the average woman owns 17 pairs of shoes but typically only wears three pairs on a regular basis.

Plus it reports that we’re now going “sole” searching in cyberspace at a much higher rate than ever before with about a third of women admitting to online purchases.

In addition, more women than ever — 60% in fact — say they’re willing to tolerate painful footwear for the sake of fashion. Can you ever imagine a man saying he’d sacrifice comfort for fashion? No way! Perhaps that’s why 14% of women also admitted to hiding at least one of their shoe purchases from their spouse or significant other.

Of course, until the pharmaceutical industry comes up with a cure to treat “Shoe Shoppingitis” — which you know it eventually will along with some silly drug name like Louboutinia — the only thing standing between you and today’s VPOD will be will power.

And you’ll need quite a bit of it to resist these vintage 1970s new old stock platform sandals which promise to look simply darling with your short shorts.

They’re a hard-to-resist find for a vintage fashionista!

Available at Dorothea’s Closet Vintage.

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