wimmin who wear high heels - a couple of questions for you...

[Sweaty Betty]

Oooh yes, I've seen loads of them around Leicester this past month Smartly dressed businesswomen with blatant stickers on the soles of their shoes. Why?

Innit...you spend all that cash on a lovely pair of shoes and you cant fucking be bothered to walk in them proprly and your too busy to take the stickers off

it should be a crime....well it is i think

 

[felixthecat]

not really to do with width of feet - it's pounds per square inch pressure on the balls of your feet - and given that I weight twice as much as I should do and have extremely small feet into the bargain, the pressure on my feet is immense - and that's what causes the pain.

Maybe her of "how clean" has big feet? and anyway, she's probably only a size 16-18.

I'm fat and wear high heels, but I do take size 8's. And I always wear 'party feet' and if the shoe allows it, sorbothane insoles. I like my heels, but they have to be bearable to wear!

 

[May Kasahara]

Innit...you spend all that cash on a lovely pair of shoes and you cant fucking be bothered to walk in them proprly and your too busy to take the stickers off

it should be a crime....well it is i think

I know...everyone knows the first thing you do with any new purchase is take the stickers/tags off! It's part of the exciting ritual of consumerism

 

[Sweaty Betty]

I know...everyone knows the first thing you do with any new purchase is take the stickers/tags off! It's part of the exciting ritual of consumerism

maybe im a bit anal and take it a step further, but i even scrub offf the sticky bits with some warm water

 

[mentalchik]

Price labels (shudders)they have to come off everything....make up, toiletries the lot.......

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Price labels (shudders)they have to come off everything....make up, toiletries the lot.......

I even do it to my beer bottles

 

[mentalchik]

Yup !



(shudders again)

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Yup !



(shudders again)

I think we are in the wrong forum all of a sudden

nutjobs that away>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[mentalchik]

P'raps it's an aquarian thing haylz...........

 

[geminisnake]

I started wearing stilettos before I was 'allowed'. Must say the folks were right, my heels are a bit misshapen
Was wearing 3" 'Sandy' sandals when I was 14/5. Not the best footwear to wear to the London Dungeon.

Tend to wear kitten heels more now tbh, still stilettos and mainly winkle pickers though.

 

[twisted_angel]

I started wearing heels when i was about 17 and realised i was alot shorter than my friends, i was a tomboy as a kid and lived in trainers.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

P'raps it's an aquarian thing haylz...........

probably mate

 

[May Kasahara]

maybe im a bit anal and take it a step further, but i even scrub offf the sticky bits with some warm water

That's totally normal - if you don't, you might end up with pale fluff sticking to the sticky bits, and then you're basically back where you started

 

[Sweaty Betty]

That's totally normal - if you don't, you might end up with pale fluff sticking to the sticky bits, and then you're basically back where you started

oh im glad you understand my dilemma

 

[janeb]

Was never allowed to wear heels as a child and didn't get into the habit as a grown up, so can't walk inanything with more than a 2" square heel

Doesn't bother me to be honest, have lots of very funky flat shoes and boots, including these that I got from M&S a couple of weeks ago as my new winter shoes - look nicer in real life than in the picture and they're VERY comfy

http://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/p...IQJM&keywords=&mnSBrand=core&size=9&rh=&page=

 

[Disaster]

..how old were you when you started wearing them (not as "dressing up" as a little 'un, but as a proper part of your wardrobe) and if you were quite young did your parents give you any grief for wearing them or try to stop you (i've heard people say that they weren't allowed to wear heels when they were young)?

What about the men who wear high heels? Are their contributions not welcome?

 

[milesy]

i knew some smartarse would ask that. that's a for a *completely* different thread.

 

[foo]

i can't remember how old i was but i remember staggering around in stillettoes and feeling like a big woman.

mum wouldn't let me or my sister wear high heels for what seemed like ages

 

[cesare]

I wasn't allowed high heels when I was a kid, cos my insteps are very high, so my mum was concerned that my arches would fall etc. Sensible shoes for me By the time I was allowed to wear them, I'd become tall and didn't want to exaggerate my height ... I do have a few pairs of 4 inch heels though but rarely wear them - just for the odd occasion.

 

[cesare]

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[Greebo]

As far as I remember, the first pair of 3" heels I had was for school, I was 16, and they were bought by my mum (I wasn't earning enough to afford shoes).

They weren't stillettos, though, and I cycled to school, so it's not as if I had to walk in them for over a mile each way.

I don't wear high heels much now, but that's because I walk more, and because there are a lot more slopes around here than where I was at the time.

Tried on a lovely pair of quite high ankle boots the other week but in spite of the wider fit, couldn't walk in them - the sole under the toe section was rounded!

 

[Swearing Nonna]

I don't wear high heels cos I just can't walk in them, I do the leaning tower thing! Highest I have is about 2.5' and even they make my feet ache

Platforms/wedges are ok though and manage just fine in those.

I used to have to hide my platforms in the 70's from my very strict dad. . .and my makeup. . . and my boyfriends. . .and my ear piercings - I was forever grounded and jumping out of windows (mum mode - not wearing platforms)!

 

[Tank Girl]

I had to put my make-up on after I'd gone out and remember to take it off before I got home again

though looking back on it, my mum was probably right, I used to wear purple eyeshadow and bright pink lipstick

wedges are good, I can stomp around in a normal fashion in them