Why are people in ads or displays always barefoot?

[Fritzo]

Ever notice the people on packaging, store displays, ads, etc are always barefoot? Why is that? It's like the advertiser says "See my toes? Cool, now buy the product!"

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

You have 'toe' envy.

 

[her209]

Because otherwise they might be viewed as endorsing a certain footwear company.

 

[MotF Bane]

Do you have a foot fetish?

 

[nerp]

Because feet are pretty.

 

[Quasmo]

Because otherwise they might be viewed as endorsing a certain footwear company.

Not paying royalties FTW!

 

[waggy]

and what is with sitting in bath tubs all over the place? in a forest, on a hill in a park..etc.

 

[Fritzo]

Serious! I just bought my kid a remote control helicopter pack, and on the back it showed a dad and his son---both barefoot.

Then I bought a ping pong table----4 people with no shoes on on the box.

I'm just looking at the box that my camera came in. Lady is in the park, taking pictures, no shoes.

Just wondering why that is? Is it some kind of marketing thing, or is it "artsy" to be barefoot?

 

[PepePeru]

I have many fond memories of doing many activities with my father, barefoot. We'd start putting a model rocket together and I'd have my shoes on. My father would say, "Pepe, please take off your shoes. We're doing rocketry, son" and I'd nod and take off my shoes.

Once we went on a magical hay ride through a cornfield in late October. It was freezing, but my father said, "Son, we can't sully this cherished memory by wearing these prisons upon our feet." and I said " but, father its 28 degrees outside" and he got really angry about that. He never let me forget it.

It's selling an image as much as the product. It's selling a lifestyle and this is how memories are made, without shoes.

This is why, Fritzo, this is why.

 

[Nitemare]

People with feet fetish will but it just for the box?