This has nothing to do with this strip apart from the conjunction of a foot and daisy, but have you ever noticed how much dancers and choreographers favour odd socks? I’ve spotted this trend a lot lately, doing shows with the Hastleons, where several of the girl dancers favour non-matching legs. The reason is quite simple - it helps to differentiate your left from your right in a visual way, which is a help if it takes even just a split second for your brain to process which direction is your stage right and which is merely your ordinary right. I saw this best exemplified by a choreographer called Emma when she was choreographing a show I was directing. She was a bit of a hippy and would dance barefooted, with a daily between the toes on her right foot. Thus, instead of invoking potentially confusing instructions like ‘to your left’ or ‘to my right’ or ‘stage right’, she would give instruction like ‘lead with your daisyfoot’, which everyone could understand.
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