Quote Originally Posted by uforgot View Post
Tight like ballet slippers! No kidding. Anyone ever wear points? Tight AND you have to get up and down on your toes. Many many years of this and my toes are really ugly. It was expected that eventually you would need less and less lambswool. I still have my last pair 30+ years later.
I took ballet for 12 years when I was a kid and did go en pointe. I liked the gel toepads better than foam, lambswool, etc. I had crazy strong feet, I used to have to special order my pointe shoes with built up shanks because otherwise I'd break them in one class.

I often wish I had kept it up. You can't really go back, not to ballet anyway, after years of not doing it. My body just won't do certain things anymore.