Adding a note: drag queen culture has been especially helpful in this regard, also improving style options for previously overlooked legions of women with large feet. Yet another reason to say, “thank you, drag queens!”

And yet the small feet = feminine beauty equation still festers away in the back of our social subconscious. If only Prince Charming had said, “I’m going to go out and look for a girl who has the same size feet I do, so we can share shoes and rule the kingdom together!”