I spent too long looking closely at a bunch of paintings and discovered that one of my favorite artists regularly used two models whose feet clearly spent way too much time cramped into tight shoes.
I can't unsee that now, and I'm realizing he must have used them as models even for portraits of other women, and I know this guy was kind of mass-producing stuff but it's still annoying to SEE it, and now some of the backgrounds are starting to just look dashed in as an afterthought, too.
black satiny ribbon laces? silver?)