Walk in them? How about arace? (Quite a few high speed splats in that video though)
Quite frankly, I love them. The stillettos, the chunky cuban heels, even the wedge (although only slightly love. Maybe “somewhat interested”). I even got a pair of 1 1/2 inch “Beatles boots” for myself.
Kitten heels are too wishy washy (go higher, or go flat, that nubbin is not fooling anyone), and ballet flats might as well be sandals.
I especially like the trend now, with shoes having the mini platform in front. The heel look ridiculously high, although the rise only goes about 3" at most. Marvelous invention!
The only heels I don’t like are the clear type. I don’t know why, but they scream trashy to me. Those, and women who don’t know how to walk in stiletto heels, or can’t, but still want to teeter around in them and grind the outer part of their heel off. I can’t stand watching them walk, it’s almost painful. Step (wibble) grrrind. Step (wibble) grrrind.
How is one supposed to walk in heels, so as not to wibble? I’ve read before about this being a skill, but it seems to me that walking is walking? OTOH, I do distinctively wibble, but I always put it down to my balance issues…
I’m a woman and I love them in theory, but cannot abide them in practice. My feet are wide with a high instep. There are a few makers who sell heels that are okay for me, but they cost more than I can justify when I only have occasion to wear heels every 18-24 months.
If I could spend the day in a cute pair from Marshall’s I’d wear heels as often as I could, though they’d never be appropriate at my job - boots with a heel, maybe. I drool at certain styles (Steve Madden, anyone?). At my cousin’s recent wedding I took a series of photos of footwear. There was a stunning array of gorgeous shoes.
My sister, who is similarly afflicted with foot width remarked that it’s probably good that she can’t just buy every shoe she falls in love with, 'cause she’d have to then get a storage unit just for shoes. I’ve seen a few that if I had enough cash I would buy in whatever size was sitting there with no intention of ever wearing them, just displaying them.
When a woman blessed with “normal” feet strolls by in heels looking comfortable and confident I do think it’s sexy. What I notice more often are women who’s shoes arent’ properly fitted, who’d look dynamite standing still, but are inching along wincing.
Are we done now with “gladiator sandals” and shoe-booties that cover the whole foot, but just the foot making the most lithe and lovely ladies look as if they have hooves?
If you’re talking platform or wide heels, like the wide heels of some boots, or sandals with heels that cover the whole sole (not platform), then yes. I’m short, and I like wearing those heels.
Pumps, stilettos, and other types… Nope, I cannot walk in those. I can only do heels if they are wide and there is enough overall support of the foot.
So they say, but I prefer a woman’s legs in nothing. They look more like legs that way.
[hijack]I remember, as a kid, reading references to “the balls of your feet” and thinking “WTF? My feet have balls???” Nowadays I think I know what they are, but I’m still not entirely sure.
Hate 'em. No arch support, and finding a pair that comes in wide is like hunting a unicorn. A much-narrower-than-you’d-expect unicorn. As such, they’re just miserable all the way around.
Well, see, I have NEVER found a pair of heels that didn’t cause me intense pain. Never. And I don’t have foot problems. I have very healthy feet that never cause me pain…except when I try to wear heels. Then it’s pains in the heels and pains in the knees and pains in the arches and pains where they pinch/squeeze my toes. I would have though “comfortable” and “high heels” together were an oxymoron.
So, because I loathe pain, I don’t wear high heels. The last time I wore heels was for a friend’s wedding. Occasionally I wear a low heel, nothing over an inch.
If you’re comfortable I’ll just have to take your word for it. They just don’t work for me.
I said yes, but in truth I will never wear anything over 2 or 3 inch heels. But a little heel I find goes a long way. It shapes the backs of my legs and makes me feel more elegant, and walk a different way. Any higher than that is not comfortable.
Plus my SO is six feet, and me being 5’5", it’s nice to be a bit closer to his height.
I can’t comfortably wear anything over a 3-inch heel, but I do like wearing heels and I feel hot when I wear them. Some hurt, but I mostly buy ones that don’t! I also really like how I walk in heels. I mostly steer away from stilettos, and I prefer a wedge or a thicker heel, but I do have a couple of pairs of skinny ones. I just can’t wear those if I’m going to do a lot of walking.
I’ve figured out recently that I feel much better and have a lot less leg and back pain if I wear shoes with a 1-inch heel, as opposed to flats. I’m on my feet all day in the lab and can’t wear heels to work, but wearing flat shoes all day has been killing me. Switching to a small heel seems to make all the difference.
I’m tall and can’t buy pants off the rack at most stores because my inseam is so long. Thus, wearing anything higher than a 2-3" heel even in Tall-inseam pants tends to look very bad on me. I stick to that heel height almost exclusively.
I’m a guy and I like the look of a woman in high heels, and I don’t feel the least bit guilty about it. You like what you like. I don’t insist that my wife wears them; she wears what she wants to wear. Most of the time it’s flats, sometimes it’s a low heel, sometimes it’s a high heel. She can wear whatever she wants, but yes, I do like the way a woman looks when she’s wearing heels with some outfits.
One time my wife bought a beautiful dress to wear to a work function for my company. We were at the mall and she was looking for a good pair of shoes to match the dress so as a joke, I picked up a pair of very high heels that I thought would be more appropriate if she wasn’t going to be doing any walking, if you know what I mean. She tried them on and declared that they were the most comfortable pairs of shoes she had ever worn. So she bought them (yay!) and wears them whenever she’s dressing elegantly (yay!)
I like the way they look, but I’m too klutzy to walk in high heels. Over 2" and I’m seriously teetering. But I really prefer moderate heels over flats.
I love high heels to look at, and on other women, but I cannot bear to wear them myself. I can’t walk properly in them and they make my feet ache within 5 minutes of putting them on.
Whenever I’ve worn high heels on a night out I’d have either given up dancing and not be able to think about anything but my blistered and bleeding feet or have removed the offending heels to dance barefoot. I’ve stopped putting myself through that now.
I hate high heels. I also hate the stock the shoe stores are carrying now - too high heels, too flat shoes (no support for my fallen arches at all), and those idiotic toning shoes that are just a scam. I’ve been looking for MONTHS now for a simple pair of leather runners, and with my size 10 feet and all the shoes in the store being stupid, I’ve had no luck. Can you tell I’m a tiny bit frustrated?
(Quite a few high speed splats in that video though)