That's a great story and the pictures do your experience justice (more photos would have been great though!)

Just a few questions - did it appear that she was carrying shoes in her bag? How black were her soles? Did she have natural toes (the photo looks like she did)? How long was she barefoot in the store?

I haven't seen any woman barefoot in a store in years. I'm in the U.S. - it simply doesn't happen anymore. How I yearn for the days in the late '80s/early '90s, when I worked at a video store and frequently, women would enter the store barefoot and gaze at video boxes for 30 to 45 minutes. I wish cell phone cameras had been around then!

I was a kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s. A lot of that time was in the LA area and then up in New Hampshire. And then in the 90s, Germany. I could tell totally non-exaggerated tales of so many incredible sightings and incidences, problem is some would think it was too fictionalized. I've really never seen any set of photos, any website that can match what I've seen in real life.

We've all heard about Australia. I've never been, and it's just too far away. But today in Germany, you get near those main train stations, down in the U Bahn, around the shopping areas, in trains... good news is, you can still see barefoot chicks. Like Hal Heaven girls.

Where would you see this: Germany. I'm at Berlin Tegel airport, I step out for a cig, it's 9am. Bam, right in front of me, 4 punks, and one of them is a girl punk with a dog, barefoot. Her feet were a great meaty athletic shape, great-shaped toenails. Lemme talk about those toes: tattooed, each one, with yellow paint on the nail. And grimy. Her soles were moderately dirty. Just awesome looking feet. Going down to Nurnberg, that entire weekend I saw a solid dozen 'Hal' girls around the main train station. In nice weather, in my experience that's normal.

In the 90s, same but I saw more squatter-type punks, and thus saw dirtier feet. As in, almost solid black on the bottoms, grimy toenails, grimy to the ankles, this is like 2 - 4 ish days of no washing. I remember this punk chick wearing almost no clothes, shaved head, skinny athletic body, totally black feet down in the train station subway... insane hotness... oh and then the pregnant MESS of a girl, total ragamuffin, crazy filthy feet... and no goddam cell phone then, no iPhones to capture it.

Get to Germany everybody.

Yeah, that's the kind of thing that you never see in the US. Even the good sightings I've had came with a "but...". I remember a dreadlocked hippie girl selling handmade jewelry at a street fair a few years back. No shoes on, dirty soles. I asked "where are your shoes?". She told me they had broken. She's barefoot because she has no shoes. Cool! But a week later, I see her again and she's got black boots on.

I worked at an office near the Occupy Wall St. protests a few years back, and one hippie girl, for the first week, I never saw her in shoes. By the end of that week, he feet were a total mess, with even the arches being jet black, the tops of her toes filthy. But the next week, I saw she had a pair of Toms on. She eventually took them off again, but my hope that she had traveled to New York without any shoes wasn't the case.

But girls like Katja or Celeste or this new girl Hal says he saw barefoot in December that go months without putting shoes on and have such tough, dirty feet, yeah, the don't exist in the USA. Meanwhile Hal seems to find a new one every week.

The good thing is it looked liked she was not carrying any shoes - but I did not look at her cart in too much detail. The tiles on the floor were gritty so her soles got black. She had clear nail polish on I believe. I do not know how long she was barefoot. I discovered her like 5 minutes before she checked out but her cart was somewhat full.