History Main / AllWomenLoveShoes

* In the Italian webseries [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWj9qhNHisO_un8a7ux1qA ''Insopportabilmente donna'']] on Website/YouTube, the creator and main protagonist, Creator/TessMasazza, is shown purchasing several pairs of shoes which are considerably smaller than her size just to own them.

* The Website/YouTube show ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jskNLt5aww Shoe Hoarders]]'', where wealthy women (ranging from golddigging socialites to independent entrepreneurs) show off their massive shoe collections.

* ''{{Franchise/Tekken}}'' features a gender inverted example with Kazuya Mishima, who likes to collect sneakers as a hobby. His Arcade Ending in ''VideoGame/Tekken8'' shows that Kazuya has a giant closet filled floor to ceiling sneakers hidden behind his personal office.

* ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' made Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik household names. Carrie was shown to be in deep debt because of her collection of hundreds of shoes costing several hundred bucks a pop, and in one episode Charlotte came across a shoe salesman with a foot fetish who loved her feet so much he gave her these fancy sandals for free. There are many, many references to shoes being this kind of holy sacrament throughout the show's run.

* ''{{Franchise/Tekken}}'' features a gender inverted example with Kazuya Mishima, who likes to collect sneakers as a hobby. A trailer for ''VideoGame/Tekken8'' shows that Kazuya has a giant closet filled floor to ceiling sneakers.

* In one routine, [[Series/FatherTed Ardal O'Hanlon]] notes the oft-contested hypothesis that women have a higher threshold for pain than men. He theorizes that this is because no matter what is happening to her, there's always part of a woman's brain that is thinking about shoes.

* ''FanFic/WindFlashHeroesBraveHeart'': Lila wears her new black high heels with tiny white ribbons on them. She shows Trevor off them.
-->'''Lila:''' How do you like my new shoes, Trevor?\\

** A single-panel comic from the '60s had a similar gag, with Betty and Veronica at a shoe store chatting about great it is that they can have all the fun of shopping for shoes, but since it's the '60s and being a barefoot hippie is currently all the rage, they get to save money by not actually having to ''buy'' any. The store owner has fallen asleep at the counter due to lack of customers.

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 of 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.

* A male version named the Trip-hop/Alternative act the ''Music/SneakerPimps'', who chose the band name from an interview with the Music/BeastieBoys talking about their "Sneaker Pimp" - the guy they paid to track down classic Sneakers for them. See Real Life, below, for details about the Sneakerhead community.

* ''Series/SisterBonifacMysteries'': In "Crimes and Miss Demeanours", Sister Boniface determines that the VictimOfTheWeek was killed with a [[ShoeSlap blow from a stiletto heeled shoe]]. Sister Boniface says that if they can find the shoe, there will probably still be trace evidence on it; regardless of how well the killer cleaned it. DI Gillespie suggests that the killer might have destroyed the shoes, but Ruth Penny snorts and tells him that no self-respecting woman would willingly get rid of a pair of designer stilettos.

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* Imelda Marcos, wife of deposed Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, left thousands of pairs of shoes behind when they were thrown out of the country. It gets even more disturbing when a few women on TV/radio/etc. have commented what a horrible person Imelda Marcos was... but ooh, look at all her shoes! In an interview for British television, Imelda Marcos defiantly asserted that of course there were shoes in her closet, she didn't have any skeletons to hide in there.
** 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 Website/{{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.
* During the UsefulNotes/{{Romania}}n rebels' show trial against their former dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena, [[UsefulNotes/HoleInFlag 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...
* When the European Union and later USA introduced sanctions and travel bans against [[UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}} Robert Mugabe's]] government after the fraud-laden violence of the 2002 elections, Mugabe's wife Grace was included in the list of people who weren't allowed to travel to Europe, with one MEP commenting that ''this will stop Grace Mugabe going on her shopping trips in the face of catastrophic poverty blighting the people of Zimbabwe''.
* Creator/RonPerlman was once asked why he does so many B and C-grade movies. His response? [[MoneyDearBoy "What can I say? My wife likes shoes..."]]
* [[Series/AmericanIdol Kellie Pickler]]. The woman even wrote a ''song'' about it. Yet she sometimes performs without them.
* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-2422-shoes/ statistically proves]] that, to some extent, this is TruthInTelevision.
* Creator/NaokoTakeuchi has mentioned that she is obsessed with shoes, made evident by such a huge presence of CombatStilettos in ''Franchise/SailorMoon''.
* Hong Kong actress and singer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josie_Ho Josie Ho Chu-Yi]] has over 300 pairs of shoes.
* Music/KylieMinogue's Instagram is essentially photos of whatever shoes she's wearing that day.
* Retired female {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er Wrestling/AJLee has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5fR3Iyixo huge collection]] of Converse All Star sneakers, and she wore them both inside and outside the ring.
* Music/CelineDion once told Creator/EllenDeGeneres that she had over 3000 pairs of shoes. When she appeared in Creator/JamesCorden's Carpool Karaoke a few years later, he suspected that she could have as many as ten thousand pairs.
* 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 Jordans and Nikes) reaches Imelda Marcos status in some cases.
* The famous writer Creator/DanielleSteel is one of Louboutin's most prolific customers, owning hundreds of their shoes. In one visit to their store in New York she purchased about 80 heels in one go.
* There is a store in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity called [[http://www.shoegasm.com [=Shoegasm=]]]. The name says it all.
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** One story manages to combine the trope with DoesNotLikeShoes to comic effect. Veronica's father notices that Veronica has developed a habit of going everywhere barefoot. The next time she leaves the house, he stops her to ask why she buys so many shoes she isn't wearing.

* [[Series/AmericanIdol Kellie Pickler]]. The woman even wrote a ''song'' about it. Yet she sometimes [[DoesNotLikeShoes performs without them]].

Contrast DoesNotLikeShoes. It should be noted that the fetishization of bare feet is also usually female, at least in the media. This trope is rarely invoked with men, even though "sneakerheads" who collect dozens or more athletic shoes are not uncommon in real life. Still, a man gushing about shoes like a woman is usually a classic symptom of CampGay.