This paper draws on in-depth interviews with five working class women who work/have worked as schoolteachers in inner city settings. The paper explores their subjective and continuing engagement with their class origins--their footprints in their past--as well as the way in which social class is implicated in their professional contemporary worlds--their footsteps forward. The paper argues that through exploring female classed experiences, social class can be seen as a complex amalgam of economic and material conditions as well as embodied lived experiences and subjectivities.