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A few months ago, I bought some fake/vegan leather shoes and they didn't quite fit. So, I figured, I'd try the old leather shoe trick, where you fill them with water, put them on and let them dry+shrink to fit your feet.
And it actually kind of worked. But I had decided to just leave them on for basically the rest of the day. And that wasn't a great idea.
My foot soles had soaked with water and gotten wrinkles that carved about a centimeter deep. Even after taking the shoes off, I was in pain for a few hours. It felt like the soaked skin was constantly pulling on my flesh, because their shapes didn't fit together anymore.
So, yeah, I imagine, the same would happen, if you bathed for 8 hours. You could somewhat mitigate it, by covering your whole body in vaseline or some other form of fat.
I guess, you could also try bathing in rapeseed oil or such directly...? I'm not actually recommending this, though. ๐ซ
Willingly giving yourself trench foot is wild
I'd imagine the effect was exasperated due to the pressure your feet are under when walking, whereas in a bath the weight is distributed and you're mostly buoyant. Its probably fine.
I actually didn't do much walking in them. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon/evening, with me mostly seated in an armchair and my legs put up, so the wet shoes didn't soak my furniture.
Personally, I even thought a bit of pressure might have stopped my skin from bloating quite as much.