Thankfully Chicago women have both feet on the ground  No. And I
hope I never will.  "Thank God my wife doesn't fit in Jimmy
Choos," said Byrnes. "At $800 a pair, it would kill me."  We
reached out to Jimmy Choo to see if they'd care to put out a
warning, telling women not to chop their toes in LA or New York
for fashion's sake. But they didn't respond.  Byrnes wonders
whether this phenomenon may be America's version of Chinese foot
binding, a hideous bit of misogyny now outlawed in China. Years
ago, wealthy families or those with pretensions to the upper
classes would bind a girl's feet from infancy, to make them tiny
and distinguishable from the feet of peasants.  Sign Up For
Traffic Text Alerts  "It was a class thing. It was anti-women.
It was terrible," Byrne said. "Men wanted to show they were so
wealthy, their wife didn't have to do common labor, so they'd
bind the feet to limit the bone plates from growing. The tinier
the foot, the more attractive. Is that where we're now as a
culture, with these high-