I love, love, loooove high heels. I own more high heels than all my other types of shoes combined. And I like them high, too. I sometimes joke that when God made me, He messed up and that I am actually supposed to be 4 inches taller than my oh-so-average 5'6. They are sexy and can make any pair of ass and legs, no matter how big or small, look absolutely phenomenal.
So taking all of this in, I cannot STAND IT when I see a girl, and more often times a woman, walking around in killer heels looking as though they are about to go hurt someone very severely. What I mean by this, is the stomping. It's all too common that I walk around my campus, or a mall, or a club, or a bar and see someone walking in heels as though they just learned to walk and decided that wearing a stiletto would be a good choice of footwear. Honestly, they remind me of inexperienced men, or maybe not even men, men don't often think they look good tromping about in heels, but something more along the lines of a chimp in heels. Did we just learn how to walk? I don't think so. Heel to toe. Heel to toe. Heel to toe. It really is that easy.
And for goodness sake, if you know you can't walk in heels, please don't go out into public wearing them. And if you have a friend who can't walk in heels, tell her (Please, God, TELL HER) she can't or just suggest a flatter, more "stable" shoe. I'm saying all of this, not just for my own benefit and happiness, but for all of those ladies out there who need someone to tell them to put down the heel.
I discovered, after living in New York for years, that the best designer heels are made for -- wait for it, wait for it -- walking. And so when New York has a blackout and you watch the news and you see all those women hiking home in stilettos and none of them look like they're even nursing a blister and all of them are walking, no, prancing, no, galloping heel-toe heel-toe, well ... now you know. It's because their shoes are built like trampolines. Their shoes cost as much as a 2000 Ford pick-up. Their shoes are gorgeous and unbelievably, sensibly, beautifully made. Red soles and all. If everyone could afford Louboutins, Blahniks, ah. We'd all walk like angels. We'd all be lovely and happy and you'd never be annoyed by stomping. Ever. Again. (O.k. It's the recession talking. Shoe dreams. Right now I'd settle for a spree at Pay Less. Wouldn't you?)
ReplyDeleteA spree in any show store would be nice right now. I've seen those women, I hope I'm not one of them. I'd like to think when I've got 4 inch heels on I'm gliding on air. But yes I agree when you get a new pair vaccum in them. The whole house/apt/dorm. well if its a dorm do the whole floor. Sometimes I wonder if those women decided to wear non broken in shoes out of to the bar expecting it to not cost them later.
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