One Super Pal told her that the men in her office actually complained to Human Resources about how the women's shoes make that sound as they walk the halls! (Girlawhirl leaves this particular comment hanging here because once she gets started on it she surely will not be able to stop.)

Girlawhirl's heard of one odd solution to this sound issue, to spray hairspray on the insoles of her shoes. She thinks the goal here is to get them to adhere to the soles of her feet, but there is no way she's going to spray her shoes with hairspray. Just the thought of a sticky mess that she must stand in all day makes her shudder.

But this morning, when she donned a brand new pair of sling backs, the noise that accompanied each step was so annoying that she tried something. A thin layer of an emollient cream rubbed on the bottom of each heel prevented them from sticking – allowing for a bit of a slide inside the shoe – and the sound was gone.

She was careful with her application – nowhere near the ball of her foot and just a little bit so she wasn't slip-sliding away. The key to success, Girlawhirl thinks, is using a heavier cream, not a lightweight lotion. In fact, it was In Fiore's Pedicure Balm that she reached for the first time, but Waleda® Skin Food and Aquaphor® have done the trick – she suspects that even one of the blister reducing sticks that work so well to prevent blisters would also be an option.

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