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1010685 tn?1295032636

Not really a hep question but..

Why are red shoes considered good luck?  

I know when we played darts and pool that we would put "noonans" on people when we wanted them to miss, and I believe that is from the movie Caddyshack.  We also said "red shoes" for good luck (I still use these when watching football), but I have no idea where it comes from.

I notice a lot of red shoes around here, so I'm hoping someone can enlighten me :)
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Jelise,

I have to admit that when I wore my red shoes in bed that night of my last injection, I wasn't exactly thinking SVR, or going out on the town, or anything much other than whew, tx is done and I made it to the end, hallelujah.

And I put on the shoes as a symbol of something important (didn't know exactly what) and then went to sleep.

If anything was on my mind when I admired my feet in those shoes, it was that I could start feeling human again, maybe even sexy again, and all with a bit of help from little red stilettos.

I can tell you it was really fun and channeled my mixed emotions into something tangible.

Some sources say red has a physiological effect shown to stimulate the adrenal glands, which helps increase our stamina.  I had so little energy that night but I swear the red shoes give me a lift despite hemoglobin in the nines.

Different colors have such different associations, depending on the culture.

In Chinese tradition, red is considered a symbol of integrity and that it can drive away misfortune. So yes, generally, good fortune and luck.

In North America, red is culturally associated with sexuality and love. Valentines are red because hearts are red; red dresses and shoes likewise are romantic and/or sexy.

There's an explanation of color psychology in several books, often in disagreement.

Anyone with an anthropology background remembers Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape. I don't think I'll repeat his lips, etc. thesis here because the guys might go nuts.  (To the gals only, Desmond Morris says painting the lips red represents a woman ready for sex because it signals her vagina lips are reddish and swollen! Hot dog!)

Anyway, women colored their nails red in ancient Egypt, and red has probably been part of cultural symbolism, one way or the other forever.

In South Africa, red is a sign of mourning, so go figure.  

Anyway, if you try them, please let me know if you get that exciting feeling!

Susan

P.S. Not to complicate things but the Pope traditionally wears red slippers!


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276730 tn?1327962946
OH geez....!!  :)

Your a hoot!

Charm
Laughing!
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206807 tn?1331936184
  Don’t put your lips nowhere near a Vagina Dentata before watching her floss. You may get gingivitis.
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179856 tn?1333547362
Oh don't feel too bad my friend there are a couple of us on here after all......that's why I love ya!
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Hmmm, and i'm the perverted one???

Me don't think so.
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I know of one that Liver Lips aptly applies to.  Want to know why?  
Nah, never mind...........
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92903 tn?1309904711
♫ Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone ♫

could be single party phone sex... the gay version being ♫ Hold the phone against your cheek ♫
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Vagina Dentata = we don't have that here.... must be a NY thing
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179856 tn?1333547362
Excuse me, did you order the trouser trout?

♫ Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone ♫ "

Have you all not heard the myth of the Vagina Dentata thats what this all reminds me of.....smells about the same.
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92903 tn?1309904711
Trish: Egads! Excuse me, did you order the trouser trout?

Trin: ummm.... I'm stuck. I don't know what to say.
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1010685 tn?1295032636
I understand where it started here and that it is totally unrelated to the Chinese custom and/or the fact that I've always said "red shoes" for luck (not worn them).  Like I said, I think it's even cooler that a lucky tradition started here spontaneously and I'm getting some red shoes :)

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♫ Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone ♫
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yup, when you get your SVR, wear whatever makes you feel good!

I did wear red stilettos for my EOT, not for my SVR.

For my SVR, I wore a red thong, and drove around in my red car. It was a dare. Was it for luck, love or sex? ... a little bit of everything, I think and it worked wonders. :)

The only weird thing was that I'm hooked on running shoes, so I wore them, too. They were white and orange. :(

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you and wishing you every success. Your SVR is coming, and I know you'll never give up.

Susan

P.S. It's nice to look like a teeny bopper - I'm stuck in that style almost always and can't grow up or out of it.
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So, if wearing short-shorts and a skimpy T-shirt and flip-flops, here in steamy Florida is more to my liking and my 'feeling sexy-like a teeny bopper feeling', then I can substitute that for the red high heels stilletto's??  I hope so cuz you won't see me in them things!  I'd end up in the ER from a broken ankle cuz I just can't walk in them!   AND that wouldn't be much of a celebration then!  Just wondering... LOL

Susan400
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Particularly if she's using the urinal next to you at the restaurant you took her for dinner at.
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92903 tn?1309904711
Gawd I love this place.

"Desmond Morris says painting the lips red represents a woman ready for sex because it signals her vagina lips are reddish and swollen! "

Goofy says when she shaves her mustache, you know you're in for a special night.
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"We (on the hepC forum particularly) wear red shoes to say happy celebration of your SVR and it came from that specific thread listed above.

Now if someone wants to say that their reasoning is different than that particular thread then they certainly can feel free to copy the idea and make up stuff about Valentines day but it's not correct. "

Oh man ... this is getting *painful*.

I don't know what you have in your bonnet yet again but you and I were answering different questions and that's all I was pointing out.  That Jelise was not misunderstanding the answer you went to great lengths and research to deliver.  That she was asking something else that you didn't quite catch, maybe because you were so focused on your particular angle.

Jelise asked why people in GENERAL wear red shoes for good luck and gave as an example her and her friends playing darts and wearing red shoes for good luck when watching football games and wondered if the people on this forum might have gotten their red shoe SVR choice from the same influence.

I'm not trying to change history or engaging in silly disputes over who started the red shoes trend on this forum.  In the big scheme of things, really not that high on my list, Deb.

She asked where people in general OUTSIDE of this forum may have gotten the notion that red shoes were good luck. I was intrigued by that question.  Very interesting question.  "Why DO people in general outside of this forum (there IS life outside of this forum) wear red shoes for good luck?" I asked myself.  So I went looking into that.  And lo and behold, I came across the fact that Chinese brides wear red shoes for good luck!! "Very interesting!" I said to myself.  "Maybe that spread and that's where it comes from!" I said to myself yet again.  So I decided to share that with Jelise.

I wasn't responding to YOU or who originated the red shoes for SVR trend on this forum. I never said a bloody thing about that until joking about Can-do's influence on it.  I was responding to Jelise's question about why people wear red shoes for good luck OUTSIDE of this forum and if it's the same reason people here wear red shoes.  No "psychobabble gobbledeegook" about that, no hidden agenda, no sinister intentions or any other nasty motive you want to ascribe to that.  

Now...you may think that JD started that global trend and that the power of suggestion on this forum is why people half way across the world wear red shoes for good luck when they watch football, play darts and pool and you're entitled to think that.  However I tend to think the Chinese potentially had a little more to do with that that than this l'il ole Hep C forum and why that has to be a contentious issue because I think people outside this forum might wear red shoes cause the Chinese influenced that is beyond me.

Trish
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I'll be she had some red shoes somewhere Marcia. :)

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476246 tn?1418870914
Gosh... I just watched that episode a few days ago. She was beheaded.
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476246 tn?1418870914
Good going, Deb. You found the thread!!!
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Excerpt taken from a letter written to Henry VIII about Catherine Howard his 5th wife:  "She hath done wondrous naughty".

And then she was beheaded......
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476246 tn?1418870914
Good idea, I'll get Bill's address and ship 'em to him


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179856 tn?1333547362
Myself and OH's responses addressed why people in general might consider red shoes good luck. "

In general people wear black, blue, brown, blue and red shoes as a matter of whatever floats their boat. Point conceeded 100%.

We (on the hepC forum particularly) wear red shoes to say happy celebration of your SVR and it came from that specific thread listed above.

Now if someone wants to say that their reasoning is different than that particular thread then they certainly can feel free to copy the idea and make up stuff about Valentines day but it's not correct.

I'd think the people who actually made it up might know what they are talking about after all and it had nothing to do with psychobabble gobbledeegook - it had to do with going out in the snow on New Years and which to do look hot or be practical.  We've said it ever since and one time a long time back MH asked what it was all about and they were told the truth.

So in general if wearing red shoes makes your libido go up then go for it if you need to do it to feel sexy.  But in here it has always been related to "Happy SVR Party".
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"perverted little jokes"

Well i never............ Well yes really i have

Susan, WHEN you get SVR after all your trys i will be so happy you don't have to wear anything at all..................OMG there i go again, sorry:)

I know can it cando
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179856 tn?1333547362
You can wear rainbow ones with diamonds and sapphires and rubies my friend - you've certainly earned them that is for sure!  Now that day is going to be some huge party in here!  :)

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