Nowadays at my local Target, upon walking by the novels, I swear there are a bunchload with foot and leg suggestive covers to them. Has anyone else noticed this trend also? A certain aisle at Target has a section of them, and there appears to be so so many of them. Anyone else catch this too? Maybe an actual bookstore??
Posted by Hal (Member # 3484) on :
It`s the same here in Germany, already since a few years. I would say 1 out of 10 new novels has feet or legs on them.
Cheers, -Hal-
Posted by WallStreetBlues (Member # 3691) on :
Hey! I was in TARGET the other day and noticed the same thing! Isn't it amazing how many feet and leg (mostly feet) suggestions there are, yet when tell someone you're into feet they think you're a bit strange? Why is that?
Posted by FTPHANTOM (Member # 47) on :
I think it's because nonfoot people,think feet are always stinky,and because of that,their gross to them,2 because their used to walk on. 3 they just don't find them attractive.You can show some nonfoot people the light and they'll catch on a little,and the rest just don't get it WallStreetBlues,I guess below the ankle is like a blind spot for nonfoot people. It's only people like us,that can see them. As for the topic I haven't been to target in a while,but when I go I'll be on the look out.
Posted by Footman9 (Member # 1100) on :
I have noticed that hard cover books, etc. do have legs, heels, and feet on the covers in Target, Borders, and Barnes&Noble.
[ May 27, 2006, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: Footman9 ]
Posted by Janko (Member # 100) on :
Sometimes the book covers depict a foot/heel standing dominantly on something (e.g. a photograph, a dollar bill, a man's hand ;-) ). Yet I'm willing to bet if you read through such a book, you wouldn't find any such foot-dominant situation within the story.
Posted by Craigy boy (Member # 3340) on :
I always noticed the trash novels like jackie Collins or harold Robbins had a nice leg with a classy stilleto on the cover.
Good point!
Posted by AFfootdude05 (Member # 2999) on :
One of those bookcovers features a drawing of a womans' toes pulling up on a mans pantleg.
Posted by Reinforcedheelstoes (Member # 1099) on :
It's been like that in bookstores for years.
The female foot is the official worldwide symbol for 'bang me.'
Posted by AFfootdude05 (Member # 2999) on :
Reinforcedheelstoes, has there always been that many books though with feet featured on the covers. I remember as a kid, I would have an eye out for these things too, but would only ever see one or two.
Posted by Reinforcedheelstoes (Member # 1099) on :
AFfootdude05,
Yeah, Bare feet, stocking feet, feet in heels, dangling and footsy under some poor slobs trouser leg.
Yet WE are the one's who need therapy. Somehow I don't think so.
Posted by Lyrical (Member # 6603) on :
ok i'll be looing my next time in target
Posted by dougiezerts (Member # 6829) on :
Curiously, most of the novels with prominant feet on the dust sleeves were written by women!
Posted by Plastercast to thank (Member # 827) on :
quote:Originally posted by dougiezerts: Curiously, most of the novels with prominant feet on the dust sleeves were written by women!
This is conclusive proof that the majority of women are crying out for their feet to be worshiped!
Posted by Podder (Member # 15888) on :
quote:Originally posted by Plastercast to thank:
quote:Originally posted by dougiezerts: Curiously, most of the novels with prominant feet on the dust sleeves were written by women!
This is conclusive proof that the majority of women are crying out for their feet to be worshiped!
Perhaps. But also, marketing people are not stupid. It is their business to spot trends and to go with what will sell their clients' goods and services. Obviously, if ad people didn't believe that feet and legs wouldn't sell merchandise, we wouldn't be seeing so much of them in ads, on book and supermarket magazine covers, etc. With our community becoming more visible and vocal, maybe other footers who had been afraid to identify themselves for fear of ridicule might be a little less reluctant, now that (for better or worse) we seem to be becoming "respectable."
Posted by conerz (Member # 12451) on :
quote:Originally posted by Reinforcedheelstoes: The female foot is the official worldwide symbol for 'bang me.'
hahahahahaha
Posted by feetluvr (Member # 1570) on :
My wife's been a life-long reader of romance novels, and for as long as I can remember barefeet and legs have been prominant on romance novel covers. I think this is largely because they're supposed to be arousing and sensual/sexual but the bare legs and barefeet is the only bare skin they actually can show, other than some cleavage, on a book cover and still have it displayed and sold in a mainstream retail outlet.
Posted by spartanguy (Member # 6990) on :
I talked to an ad executive several months ago and I asked him why female feet are used so often in ads. He said female feet definately make book covers and advertisments more attractive but he had no idea why. I asked if it was sexual and he said, "probably."
Posted by Girlgotsole (Member # 14405) on :
Yes. I've been noticing this for a while. Glad being an English Major is paying off for me a bit. Haha.
Posted by liefvoetje (Member # 5355) on :
Recently I noticed a book written by Sophie Kinsella on the shelves. It displays a women sitting (you can only see the legs) wearing a pair of white massage clogs! It just happens to be my favorite type of clog, too bad the book itself didn't contain any pictures... :-)