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GOOD POINTE

For 350 years, ballerinas have worn the same kind of pointe shoe, which allows them to gracefully pirouette and leap across the stage, all while on tiptoe. Despite pointe shoes' elegant appearance, the slippers' age-old design makes wearing them torture for dancers' feet.

The discomfort comes from the blister-inducing shoes' paper. mache construction, which uses layers of paper and cloth hardened with paste to form the shoes' unique flat-tipped...
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