[maine-iac7]

actually it usually comes from being barefoot from day one. At most they may have had a hide or leather cover but they had no hard bottomed shoes… tends to make whatever arch you might have had collapse.

Hm- I went barefoot, as a kids, all summer - wearing shoes only when necessary. I have continued this my whole life.p>Shoes, to me, are something to wear only when going to town - or otherwise into 'man's world' - and when cold etc.

My arches - at age 80 in July - are still so high, I can't wear laced shoes...and still very narrow.

[Nifster]

I am a barefooter always have been.... had lousy arches as a kidlet and became flat footed before I was 15....and I do mean flat footed.