When I worked at TENS NYC

A long time ago I worked in New York City, I went there twice for work and I liked it a lot. Thinking about going back.....maybe.
Anyways, I was just sitting around reading dancers talk about different clubs at Stripperweb,
an online dancer site - quite interesting.....when I came across this about a girl's experience at some club in NYC. And that took me back to my New York memories.......

"I worked in an NYC club where they insisted that we wear civilian heels. After a month of 8 hour shifts, working 3-4 days a week, I got wicked bad nerve damage in my toes. Not to mention fasciitis (inflammation of the tendon on the sole of the foot) and the angle of my toes got somewhat deformed. The nerve damage (which consisted of numbness, spasms, and extreme pain) took 2-and-a-half years to correct. The fasciitis took about just as much time but still springs up once in a while. The toe angle issue is sadly permanent. It sucks. My feet are cute... but they were cuter before. After leaving that club and going back to 7" stripper heels I have suffered no ill effects at all.
But I look back and think about that time of night when the club would close, and I would sit on the dressing room floor, in my gown, crying, desperately rubbing my feet to get rid of the shooting blasts of pain and odd waves of cold numbness.
Besides the horrible physical consequences of dancing in civilian shoes, there were aesthetic issues too. My stage performances suffered because the shoes didn't grip my foot as well.
My range of dance moves was limited. Also, shorter heels made me look shorter, heavier and made me feel less confident.
And all this awful stuff happened because some guy... that has no idea about how uncomfortable high heels can be... has a pet peeve against a stripper-looking shoe. Newsflash management! You're running a strip club!!!
I wish managers would REALIZE that strippers wear clears for practical reasons... they match any outfit, the clear upper part sticks to the foot (so we don't end up like cinderella or accidentally toss a shoe off and poke a guy in the eye) and they are designed to keep a girl comfortable for hours and hours and hours of dancing. The idea is to look invisibly tall, to be so comfortable that you don't think about shoes even once during a shift, and to create a sexy, upright body angle/posture.

P.S. I have learned that customers don't care what kind of shoes a stripper wears. Unless they have some specific fetish. And then, they are always welcome to buy me a pair of the kind of shoe they fancy."

HA! I had a dispute over my shoes with one of the managers at TENS, that dispute lead to him firing me, all because of some shoes. When I worked at TENS you were not allowed to wear a shoe on any kind of platform, I guess that changed over the years to "platform is ok as long as the shoe does not have a clear (see through) bottom part, because that is too stripperish looking".
So upon arriving in New York and getting hired at TENS, me and Shelley had to go for a shoe hunt, trying to find some ok looking shoes to dance in that were also somewhat comfortable. Pretty much impossible. The platform is there for a reason, it makes it comfortable for your foot, it's just better for the foot and arch.
My feet never hurt so much from dancing as they did in New York.
Well, not only were we not allowed to wear platforms, the shoe also needed to have an ankle strap. I found a pair of cute shoes without a strap and thought that maybe I could get away with wearing them since there were so many girls in the club, who was going to look for an ankle strap anyways?
Well, we had one nazi manager that was just one of those mean, angry, bossy guys and of course he noticed the missing ankle strap and told me to get another shoe. I tried to reason with him and that led to him FIRING me over the shoes. Or standing up to him. Whatever. I was upset and sad that night, the next evening I went to Flashdancers, auditioned and got hired. So that manager at TENS actually made me a favor, I liked it much better at Flashdancers and made more money there. I could also wear platform there.
I would never again work at a club that does not allow platform heels. Yes, I know I'm tall in my 7'' platform stripper heels. But I do not care. They are designed to be comfortable for dancers. Of course the taller shoes also makes you look better, women wear heels for a reason.
Some girls could never achieve the look of long and lean legs without those platform heels.
But dancing for eight hours in "regular" heels is painful. Unfortunately I developed two corns this last year from my Stardust platforms, one of the pairs
(I got two) has a very tight plastic top part, so before it got stretched out it rubbed me on one toe on each foot and those toes now have corns. I am NOT happy about that since I always liked my feet and thought they were kind of nice looking compared to some other feet I've seen. But now I don't like them that much anymore because of the corns. And since I continue wearing the same style of heel, with the tight fitting plastic top, the corns will not go away. I am thinking about wrapping each toe in some moleskin or something before I work. Maybe then the corns will diminish over time?
Anyone has a good corn removing tip that does not consist of me not wearing my platforms with the plastic top?
Another thing I did not like about dancing in New York was that you had to wear a long gown.
I don't like the look of long gowns in strip clubs on EVERY girl, I think it looks ridiculous. The clubs are going for the "classy look" and I get that but still.......a short dress (on me), ok maybe. I prefer my two piece outfits, cute boy short panties and a nice bra. I think that looks classy enough if it's nice of course and not some washed out full bottom granny panties and some soggy bra.