She may have impeccable dress sense, but it seems even Samantha Cameron can sometimes put a foot, or rather two feet, wrong.
On a visit to a voter’s house in Hounslow, West London, this week the PM’s wife removed her loafers — £70 from High Street store Office — to reveal tootsies that looked every bit as hardened and battle-weary as her husband in the final stretches of the General Election campaign.
Samantha Cameron, 44, has clearly paid the price for her lifelong devotion to fashionable footwear in the form of bunions, yellowing toenails, corns and red, flaky skin. But she is not alone. Only this week, in a survey carried out by the College of Podiatry, 20 per cent of women admitted they disliked their naked feet because of the damage done by wearing uncomfortable shoes.
Hard skin and corns were the most complained about conditions, while the hours of pain and discomfort an average woman feels as a result of wearing high heels totalled 23 days a year.
Here, expert Tracy Byrne gives the low-down on these all-too-common foot afflictions and suggest what you can do to get your feet ready for those summer sandals.
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