Toe-curling fashion: how did toe shoes become so popular?

‘This is 2025. Women don’t need to ache all day in stilettos to prove themselves,’ Caitlin Cassidy says about the rise of toe shoes as a fashion trend. Photograph: Jade T Belmes/Getty Images

Caitlin, I am a big proponent of not yucking someone else’s yum. But this is testing me. What are on those girlies’ feet?

They’re toes, Cait. They’re toes. More specifically, toes encased in rubber to create a kind of foot-glove-trainer.