Here's a gal I met years ago. She grew up in the city. She used to run around the nieghbor hood barefoot all the time. Since the alleys were gravel, concrete and broken glass, she just used to walking on everything rather than wear shoes. She told me she wanted a boyfriend who just let go barefoot 24/7. She enjoyed every bit of never wearing shoes, from leather tough soles to just as black as she could get them. SHe said she went to the fair and a hot dog on the ground and stepped on it just squish it under her feet. As you can see the roughest gravel didn't bother her. She not only walked on broken glass, but would break it barefoot. Notice the ones as she's walking on the broken glass. All the sharp points are stick UP yet that didn't even bother her. And she even put out cigarettes barefoot. Would you call an "extreme barefooter"?

very nice and extreme nice photos thank you

Great pictures....Thanks for sharing with us

What did her soles feel like?

How thick do you think they were?

Thanks, Terry

Thank you very much for sharing these wonderful pics with us. Wish there were girls like her nowadays!

Please keep posting more pics.

Fantastic! Wherever you live, it's Paradise as far as I'm concerned!

Were to start. Glad everybody appreciates them, I'll keep the photo's coming. She had very leathery tough soles, not super rough but you could they were thick and very muscularly strong. I had problems walking on the ballast rocks with boots on and they really didn't phase her. Just the fact it slid and footing was tricky. The standing on breaking the glass was her idea, she just started doing it and said "she this". As you notice in one were she's walking on glass. Next to her right foot is a bottle bottom with the sharp jagged points upward and she stands right on it without a comment. I love the way her feet contour around even the most irregular rough surfaces and she took it all in stride. There is one shot I can't find were she her foot on the pile of broken bottles, she lifts her other foot and stand with all her weight on the jagged glass and it cracked & broke under her weight.

I'm glad to hear you are going to post more pictures. This gal is great!

Was this in the 70's?

Where were you guys? With the slate rock and bass boat I would guess Alabama or Georgia.

-Terry

You have done the world a great service and made life better for everybody by posting these beautiful pics! She is amazing...thank you!

Probably the most ... touching pics ever seen, for my tastes. Or at least among the most touching ones.

Wonderful gal, WONDERFUL legs, incredibly muscular and strong feet... well, the top of the top.

"But" ... (i'm NOT querying anything, it has to be CLEAR ... I'm exposing MY PERSONAL experience) ... well, I owe this passion to a 3-years-long relationship (unfortunately for ME and for ... you too, guys before the beginning of Internet, of digital cameras and of a certain "photography culture") with a full time barefooter, moreover with the (enormous) fetish of "her own barefoot strength".

We spent any second of our time and we invested any ounce of what we had in making her able to become the strongest barefooter possibile ... complete invulnerability (to "normal" things) was our dream, and at a certain time we thought we reached it.

Well, she could walk forever, without even flinching, on stones similar to the ones shown in those pics, and even run on them, probably for minutes, before being weakened by the blows in her soles.

But ... she couldn't deal with ... the bottom of a broken bottle, posed on the ground with the lower part and with broken spikes turned on her bare soles!

Not without being injured, and not avoiding injures then draining her strength, and her capability to stay barefoot. I know because we tried, obviously ... we tried ANYthing.

So ... well ... i really can't imagine how strong the girl in the pics was ... and mainly "HOW" did she do that.

Many compliments and thanks for your ... great gift, even if I say it with a bitter aftertaste : you somehow managed to ... win a sort of contest, through the years, between your friend & my ex. Not an easy thing at all, I ensure you.

Nice story and thanks for the input flowwer. AS you yours was before alot of photography, so Id guess no photo's to share. What did all try. What she able to walk on. Did she ever try cigarettes? How thick and tough did soles get? Did they get real black? And again, Im glad y'all appreciate my contribution. I like seeing all the input they generate.

I was very fortunate to have two girlfriends who were true, hardcore barefooters. It was great to go barefoot together around the city (the Village, NYC), Coney Island, the subways, stores, etc. One had a mom who also went barefoot before she moved to NYC. She had no problems with us coming into the apartment with filthy black feet. Her mom's feet were very tough and calloused so I had no doubt her daughter learned from mom well.

This was a long time ago, unfortunately no pics. Both moved away and I lost touch with them. It was also when it was common to see others barefoot in the Village, Washington Square Park, South Street Seaport, etc. The Dead were alive and playing concerts which were great places to meet other barefooters.

Hi!

Your pictures are simply beautiful, what a wonderful girl!

Tell me... is there a chance to find girls like her nowadays? Would you dare to try and make new photo sets just like these ones???? You've done that before, I am sure you can do it again, you are really gifted for this!

Thanks for sharing all these superb pics and stories. Keep posting more, please.

Thank you DG, Ive admired your work. A compliment from you is taken in high reguard. Spring has just arrived and we'll see what oppertunities present themselves. I have more candids and we'll be posting shortly. Maybe I should go to work for City Feet as a U.S. branch,,

Thanks to you for your kind, warm words, I had never ever thought that someone could admire my work. Your comment really made my day, much appreciated!

I'll be looking forward for more of your work, that you did before and the future pics. I am sure you'll find the right girls soon. BTW, you would be a great US correspondent for CF :-)

I admire the work of both of you. You get lovely ladies to bare their feet in the most challenging of circumstances. Please more!