Very tall wife breaks piece of foot jewellery (8)

I believe the answer is:
towering
'very tall' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'wife breaks piece of foot jewellery' is the wordplay.
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'breaks' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters break into the word).
'piece of foot jewellery' becomes 'toering' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'w' placed within 'toering' is 'TOWERING'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for towering that I've seen before include "I get worn (anag)" , "Very tall" , "Very intense (rage)" , "Magnificent" , "Grew into (anag.)" .)
