History Main / AllWomenLoveShoes

** In the live show ''The Muppets Take the Bowl'', a spoof of ''Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians'' called ''Keeping Up with the Crustacians'' has Pepe the King Prawn complaining that Chloe Clam spends a fotune on shoes when she doesn't even have any feet.

* In the live show ''The Muppets Take the Bowl'', a spoof of ''Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians'' called ''Keeping Up With the Crustacians'' has Pepe the King Prawn complaining that Chloe Clam spends a fotune on shoes when she doesn't even have any feet.

* In the Creator/CarolChanning episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Miss Piggy buys some [[FashionHurts stylish but excruciating]] shoes that are really too small for her. She continues to wear them after Kermit admires them.

* During the UsefulNotes/{{Romania}}n rebels' show trial against their former dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena, in 1989, which ended in their execution, Elena's very comprehensive collection of expensive shoes was used as an evidence of the pair's illegal gathering of wealth. This is quite an understandable sticking point: sometime in TheEighties Ceauşescu decided to pay off all of Romania's foreign debt and decided to do so by ''exporting everything that could be exported''. Owning expensive shoes while ordinary citizens queued up for food and suffered severe shortages amidst one of the worst economic collapses in the Communist bloc can come across as a mite bit insensitive to say the least...

-->'''Felicity:''' And then Laurel will be pissed that I didn't accommodate her baby and she'll leave and you'll be mad she's gone and you'll stop watering the fern and I'll never get to go shoe shopping with her!
-->'''Oliver:'''...What?
-->'''Felicity:''' Laurel has amazing taste in shoes.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic alludes to this at the start of "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch." But then he follows up with a subversion: trucks and tattoos.

** Type in Imelda Marcos' name in Website/{{Google}}, and the first suggestion that comes up is "Imelda Marcos shoes". The third webpage that comes up, after her Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} page and her Biography.com page (both of which mention her love of shoes in the first paragraph), is a ''Daily Mail'' article about her shoe collection, which had been damaged by flooding and termites.

* Reversed in the community of "Sneakerheads", who buy sneakers to wear, and "Hypebeasts", who buy en masse to resell. These fellows are mostly adolescent males, their obsession with sneakers (particularly Air Jordan's and Nikes) reaches Imelda Marcos status in some cases.

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-2422-shoes/ statistically proves]] that, to some extent, this is TruthInTelevision

* In the Creator/CarolChanning episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Miss Piggy buys some [[FashionHurts stylish but excruciating]] shoes that are really too small for her. She continues to wear them after Kermit admires them.

In the world of fiction, all women adore shoes. Not only that, they judge people by the shoes they wear, have whole closets full of them, know every single designer, and no matter how expensive or [[HighHeelHurt painful]] to wear, they simply ''must'' have the latest styles for the season. Don't question this; this is simply one of those WomensMysteries that men will never understand.

** Not even Series limitations can stop Rainbow Angel girls from acquiring lots of shoes, as Kandyce Azeat and Daisy Stanton (who got most of hers thanks to Khaos' go-to ButtMonkey Peach's misfortunes during "The Sequence") prove. Kandyce actually knew well ahead of time, and had even taken advantage of it as an excuse to buy shoes for other people (her teal locks received Jayden Omega's mate Emerald's spell [[RapunzelHair limiting her hair's length changes to those that make it longer]] on revealing she gave Jayden his pair of the heels Kandyce had to wear due to the Series she was of at the time in 2204).

** This is also averted by Sierra, who DoesNotLikeShoes and has been barefoot since the sixth grade (at least that's her best guess).

** Meanwhile, the heroine of [[Webcomic/YuMeDream another comic by the same artist]] averts this by only owning one pair of shoes.

** Not even Series limitations can stop Rainbow Angel girls from acquiring lots of shoes, as Kandyce Azeat and Daisy Stanton (who got most of hers thanks to Khaos' go-to ButtMonkey Peach's misfortunes during "The Sequence") prove. Kandyce actually knew well ahead of time, and had even taken advantage of it as an excuse to buy shoes for other people (her [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair teal locks]] received Jayden Omega's mate Emerald's spell [[RapunzelHair limiting her hair's length changes to those that make it longer]] on revealing she gave Jayden his pair of the heels Kandyce had to wear due to the Series she was of at the time in 2204).

* Gwynn in ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' has this as part of the "stereotypical shallow woman" side of her personality. At one point, it appears like it's being played straight when Gwynn is rooming with Aylee and acting withdrawn and Aylee hopes shoes will cheer her up. [[spoiler: Actually, though, at this point Gwynn has been mind-swapped with Queen Siphaniana of ancient Mohkadun, so "Gwynn" in the present is really Siphaniana, who had asked for more ''practical'' shows than the ones that Gwynn already has, so it's pretty much the inverse. Mind you, back in the past in the role of the Queen, Gwynn ''was'' having craftsmen make modern-style shoes for her...]]

* Gwynn in ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' has this as part of the "stereotypical shallow woman" side of her personality. At one point, it appears like it's being played straight when Gwynn is rooming with Aylee and acting withdrawn and Aylee hopes shoes will cheer her up. [[spoiler: Actually, though, at this point Gwynn has been mind-swapped with Queen Siphaniana of ancient Mohkadun, so "Gwynn" in the present is really Siphaniana, who has been asking for more ''practical'' shows than the ones that Gwynn already has. Mind you, back in the past in the role of the Queen, Gwynn ''was'' having craftsmen make modern-style shoes for her...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': While Candace doesn't seem to care much about them, her friend Stacy seems to love shoes enough to make a gelatin mold of some pumps.

Of course, plenty of women in real life are not that interested in fashion, or dress in ways that allow them to roll around in a cute but comfy pair of shoes. Some women who love fashion may just prefer to have a pair or two of versatile shoes that can work with multiple outfits. Some women are handicapped and have to be careful about the shoes they wear regardless of their fashion sense. Unfortunately, any woman in fiction not interested in owning three dozen pairs of shoes is painted as a {{tomboy}} regardless of her reasoning. For a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, don't be surprised to find a few heels along with her boots, sneakers, track spikes, etc.

* Cinderella from ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}''.

*** The rest, which includes both the aforementioned wedding heels, "limit" doesn't exist.

* Fanfiction author KhaosOmega has deployed this a couple of times, including one pseudo-genderflipped case with Jet.
** Jet owns an insane amount of shoes, especially what he calls his 'go-to' wedding heels (which by mid-October 2010 is already at quadruple digits).

** Her Rune Angel teammates Lily and Kazuya also have massive collections of high heels, the latter another pseudo-genderflipped case. Anise actually bought most of both collections, Kazuya's being because she foresaw his forced CrossDressing stint and bought herself a lot more heels to hide it.
** Not even Series limitations can stop Rainbow Angel girls from acquiring lots of shoes, as Kandyce Azeat and Daisy Stanton (who got most of hers thanks to Khaos' go-to ButtMonkey Peach's misfortunes during "The Sequence") prove. Kandyce actually knew well ahead of time, and had even taken advantage of it as an excuse to buy shoes for other people (her [[RapunzelHair teal locks]] received Jayden Omega's mate Emerald's spell limiting her hair's length changes to those that make it longer on revealing she gave Jayden his pair of the heels Kandyce had to wear due to the Series she was of at the time in 2204).

* A rare male example in the movie ''Film/KinkyBoots'', which features a small, family-business shoe factory making female footwear styles in mens' sizes for the {{transgender}}/DragQueen market. Also a Real Life example as it is inspired by a true story; much of the movie was shot in the actual shoe factory that inspired the movie. Word of warning -- don't mistake burgundy for [[BerserkButton red]].

* In a ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' strip, Pig opines that men and women are NotSoDifferent. Rat immediately shoots the idea down: