Lucy's Story (22)
Posted by Lucy on August 25, 2003, 17:32:41
Hi Everyone! And especially to Spikesfan for continuing to copy my instalments from here on Jenny's Forum across to MegaForums and for his kind messages, and also to Erica and Sinkem for their replies. I am writing this instalment No. 22 on 25th August 2003:
Having recounted to you my first week's work in London and the unforseen agony of wearing 4" stiletto heels (my lowest) all over the city, by the end of week 2 they were starting to 'harden-up' and the skin under the balls/toes of my feet was becoming more leathery. Also, the shiny black patent leather court shoes, which were brand new for the interviews, were becoming more worn-in and comfortable. Despite my feet acclimatising themselves to all the walking in heels, I decided do delay my plans to go into really high heels for a wee bit longer to be on the safe side. As I criss-crossed hither and thither around London, I was able to start taking an interest in the shoe fashions that other girls were wearing in the capital. This was now the autumn of 1963, seven years after the great stiletto heel revolution first hit the British streets. By this time, the general trend in the fashion magazines was for lower heels of 2 1/2" or less. However, two camps of heel-wearers seemed to have emerged - those lemming-like fashion followers who adhered to the lower heel trend like zombies, and those real high heelers like me and Velma who, having once tasted the unique thrill of wearing SERIOUSLY high heels, were to stick loyally with them rather than settling for anything less, despite the lower-heels fashion whim. On London's streets, the two opposing types of ladies became very obvious. In fact, during this period, the second category of ladies were wearing, if anything, HIGHER heels than they had been doing, if only to emphasise that they were not going along with the herd. Some of them had some gorgeous stilettos and I noticed quite a few more pairs of 'Alps'(just like my 4 3/4" pairs) click-clicking around London. After work, I would catch the homeward train from Charing Cross Station. Beforehand, I would sometimes relax over a hot coffee in Villier Street, a very steeply descending street alongside the station. From the coffee-shop window, I noticed several ladies whose heels were so high that they could hardly hurry down the slope to the underground station at the bottom. I saw more than one twisted ankle occurring right in front of the coffeehouse due to their heels being too high for the slope and the bustle. Some of the ladies adopted my own trick (which I have previously described) of leaning my high stiletto heels inwards towards each other when descending very steep slopes this counteracts the steepness and temporarily brings the heels of my feet nearer to the ground until the slope has levelled-out. However, one very beautiful blonde lady who descended that street every day rather overdid it. She had a superb pair of light tan-coloured 5" stiletto courts, and she had to lean them in quite considerably to manage Villiers Street. As the weeks passed, I noticed that her lovely pair of shoes were becoming more and more distorted because of this, so that even when on the flat, both heels had adopted a permanent and very pronounced inward lean. That shows the danger of over-doing that technique. Sometimes that same symptom can come about simply because the heels are too high for the particular girl wearing them. In my third week at work I followed a lady (with very tilting heels) and gentleman on to an underground train and got squashed against them both. The gentleman said he had noticed her having "difficulty" with her new shoes. She explained to him "They are really quite a bit too high for me, but I love the look of them so much that I can't bear to come out in lower heels!".
Sorry if this has been a short instalment, but I'm having to dash out now, so I'll break off and write a longer one soon!
Love to all, Lucy |