Favorite foot factoids

People who care about matching the footgear to the well shod foot classify pedal extremities into one of three categories: (1) Egyptian, where the large toe is the longest toe, (2) Greek, where the second toe is long, and (3) cubic, with toes of equal langth. This is from a feature (by one Burkhard Bilger, a name not soon forgotten) in the February 14 and 21 New Yorker, about Czech shoe-people and the reproduction of the shoes worn by the Ice-man.