Best foot forward: ‘Cinderella’ craze sees healthy women getting toes amputated

The ‘Cinderella’ craze sweeping the US involves women with perfectly healthy feet getting their baby toes amputated so they can slip into stylish stilettos, writes Aileen C O’Reilly

We live in an era where what we wear on our feet says more about us than the words that come out of our mouths… Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Alexander McQueen, the red flash of a Louboutin…these are the names that can bring a gasp of pleasure and simultaneous financial pain.