In a message dated 1/5/2004 4:47:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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Well, as it turns out, I've been OOO since 12/25 - the univ. Pres was nice
enuf to give us 1/2 off to add to the winter break.  Hence, my recent muteness.
Anywho....the official CFM shoes were the Candies that were popular in the
late 70's, early 80's.  I never heard a man refer to them that way This would
seem to confirm the supposition that FM is a girl term- just us girls (including
the woman who's T-burg T-burg? house I was living in at the end of high
school - although she worked at the Journal, so was "cool").  I think they made a
comeback recently (no pun intended), but I haven't seen them on any feet of
late.  Come to Minhattin. Of course, I'm neither a teenager nor a woman of
distinction who would be wont to wear them - leastways, not in public. Me, neither.
It was definitely not something the men told us to wear, we just wanted to
have the cheap thrill.  Does this mean one didn't wear them when was out
seriously looking for gentleman callers?  Or perhaps the FM locution refers to the use
of such footwear by, uh, professional women, who might be so shod as, shall
we say, advertising.

Ralph