Crazy High Heels
I received this from a reader via email.
I am rarely left speechless, but this photo did it.
Ouch.
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betty responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 7:51 am →
WOAH. no thanks. I’ll stick to my chuck taylors lol
Caroline responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:06 am →
Ach, those make my feet hurt just looking at them!
Marsha (at JustMe1947) responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:13 am →
OUCH! No way would I have ever worn those shoes. I’m 5 foot even in my stocking feet and as much as I wanted to be tall, I could never force myself to wear high heels. My feet hurt bad enough wearing pumps and flats! lol
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Beth responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:14 am →
My feet hurt just looking at that picture!
jamie responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:16 am →
it’s so obvious a man designed the first high heel LOL
deb responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:38 am →
Yikes. They can’t be real, can they?!?
Rayne responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am →
How do they expect anyone to walk on these things?
MomGrind responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:48 am →
@ deb: I do hope they are not real. They better not be. The reader who emailed those said they were “the latest rage in Japan”, but I didn’t look into it. My assumption: not real.
Jennifer Robin responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 8:51 am →
Ditto, and ditto. Those hurt just thinking about them!
JEMi | Tips for Life, Love, You responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 9:15 am →
oh…my God…
Suzy responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 9:32 am →
Oh, my aching toes….maybe these are made for ballerinas ?
Liz responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 10:57 am →
What the…and…OWWWWW!
Susan responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 11:01 am →
Yikes! I, too, hope they’re not real.
I’d be flat on my face with my first step wearing those.
Will responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 12:01 pm →
Those are nasty! Legs looked airbrushed too. Why is it that the fact ignored that all of us “normal” men, (90%) of all men, like “normal” women, not some media produce image of “perfection”?
grrr.
Chris responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 12:16 pm →
So is this any different from the countless implants and botox injections?
MomGrind responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 12:21 pm →
@ Will: THANK YOU for saying that. Women need to hear it more often.
@ Chris: in a way, it’s better than surgical procedures. It’s just another way in which women attempt to attain an impossible image. And there’s always a huge price to pay for those attempts.
Amor responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 1:01 pm →
I’ll never wear this kind of shoes even if it comes from a designer :)I can’t imagine the pain that I have to endure using these.Great post.
I’m in a big wooden shoe
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Jill responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 4:05 pm →
This is just GROSS.
Golightly responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2008 at 11:37 pm →
Oh. My. Gosh. They can’ t be for real! No way! Insane.
Mycrazylife responds:
Posted: May 1st, 2008 at 5:13 am →
Yeah, walking like a ballerina has no appeal to me whatsoever. Oh the lengths women will go to for beauty. Ridiculous!
Ann responds:
Posted: May 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am →
wow. no pain, no gain . . . if looking like that is your goal.
Mrs. Micah responds:
Posted: May 1st, 2008 at 6:45 pm →
Those look less comfortable than pointe shoes. And I speak from almost 5 years of experience on that front.
Actually, I just don’t wear heels at all. I tried it for a week last summer before I went out and bought perfect flats for work.
MomGrind responds:
Posted: May 1st, 2008 at 7:47 pm →
@Amor: the first thing I thought when I saw this photo was “pain”.
@ Mrs. Micah: wow, 5 years of ballet. That’s a lot of hard work. I wear heels, sometimes, as long as they are chunky and not too high - otherwise it just feels too wobbly.
missmaryann responds:
Posted: May 5th, 2008 at 8:05 am →
They are real shoes - in last week’s People Magazine (Beautiful people issue) Rumer Willis is wearing a black pair in her picture. They are hideous!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: May 5th, 2008 at 10:14 am →
@ missmaryann: wow. I can’t believe that a designer designed this. I can’t believe that women are wearing this. It is just… sad.
Pinay Jade responds:
Posted: May 6th, 2008 at 7:11 pm →
Woah!!! no thanks I’m gonna break my neck with this one LOL. I am adventurous but this one is way too adventurous;)
magpie responds:
Posted: May 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pm →
Ouch.
Scarlet responds:
Posted: January 6th, 2009 at 4:14 am →
They do indeed look painful, but they’re desined to be walked in…..they’re fetish shoes…..originally designed for the bedroom!!! (i haven’t tried them but some how I know about this stuff!!!)
More commonly (until more recently) seen among such equipment as hand restraints, silky rope and maybe a bondage mask or two……if you get my drift! They’re designed to STOP you walking! x
Scarlet responds:
Posted: January 6th, 2009 at 4:17 am →
…I meant to say “NOT designed to be walked in”…in the first line!! x