Do You Know the Rules of Party Shoes?

Leaving work earlier this week, a colleague and I passed a line of well-dressed women outside of a buzzy local restaurant. I assumed that they were waiting for an overzealous bouncer to check their IDs--until we got closer. It wasn't a queue of would-be partiers passively waiting for entrée; they were actually very active, one shoe on, one shoe off, in a shaky Karate Kid Crane kick pose, teeter-tottering in a balancing act in an attempt to prevent their naked toes from touching the pavement. Th...