Lies about heel height

Vanity · 18th July 2004, 09:18

Something I have noticed is that many lie, or exaggerate the heel height.
Some of my friend say that they don't use their 4" or 5" heels very often,
and when you take a look at them they are 3" or perhaps lower.
I think it's "cute", in some weird way, to pretend that they are higher then they are.
When I shoe-shop together with some friend I encurage her to buy high heels, but they always end up in the closet. Comfort is the key-word.
Sometimes I wonder if it's me that's weird.
Anyone with the same experience?
:D

new_look · 18th July 2004, 18:00

it annoys me when some women at work talk about how uncomfortable their 'high' heeled shoee, and theyre usuall only about 3" at that. Quite silly when i with about an 10000th of their heel experience can easily wear 4.5-5" without a problem.

I think some people need introducing to real high heels, but id say in general, young girls or women dont measure their heels anyway.

Becky · 18th July 2004, 22:12

You said it Daz - you've only got 10,000th of the experience of us women and conversely 10,000th of the amount of heel wearing.

When you've got the same experience as us then you can proudly state that you can wear 4.5" - 5" without any problems. You're young and have a long way to go yet, especially as you predominantly wear them in your bedroom.

Anne_Louise · 19th July 2004, 09:50

I often hear remarks such as, 'I love your shoes, I used to wear really high shoes like them but I don't any more.' Usually the reasons are such things as change of lifestyle, bringing up a family, advancing years and so on. What is interesting is their perceptions of heel height because when I have been shown some of their shoes they are nearly always much lower. In other words, people's ideas of 'high' vary quite a lot. One thing I've learned from this site and seeing the pictures of my kind of shoe is how high they actually look when being worn, it's something that the mirror can't truly represent. Of course it makes me feel even better about my heels!

Daz, Becky is right, you can't truly know if you can walk easily in very high shoes until you have worn them for hours at a time and on all sorts of surfaces. Your shoe size of course makes a big difference too. As a size 8 I can wear 5 1/2" heels all day long, something a size 5, for example, would find much more of an effort.

new_look · 19th July 2004, 17:50

i thank you for your constructive input becky, or sarcasm wh(whichever it may be), but rather than have a catfight with your comments when not knowing that much about me, i will simply set us straight

I dont know how often you read our stories, but if you did you wouldve read that many times myself, and other members of this board participate in meets, as well as escapades of our own which involve the same amount of hours walking as any day youve ever had to go through too, and i can say i can comfortably walk in the heels i specified for at least the full day/weekend from actually doing it.

I am not a 'bedroom' wearer as you kindly suggested, and given that society was a little more equal, then you would certainly see my meters of usage upto the same level as any girl. Unfortunately because of the way the world is, certain situations (work, family opinions etc) my opportunities to wear are not as easily decided as perhaps yours.

Anne-Louise, although i may be not so flexible as perhaps yourself to wear the heights youve obviously practised hard to wear (5inch +) my original point was that girls wear 3in heels or lower, with hardly any lift, and try and make out as if they are the hardest thing in the world to wear, which springs my mind to my own heelwearing usually of which is 4.5in, my fav height, and also people like you to mind which wear the higher heels daily. If you re-read my original post you will see this

with that said, let the original topic contunie

Daz

Becky · 19th July 2004, 19:26

Daz,

You're right - I don't know you very well and by the sound of it you don't know women very well either, judging by your comments of us allegedly moaning that it is uncomfortable to wear anything over 3".

How can you compare these ad-hoc "heel meets" and "your own escapades" as a comparison for our heel wearing - you're living in a fantasy world.

I wear heels from 8am - 7pm, five days of the week, if I go out during the evening and all day at the weekend.

I'm sure most women would handle wearing 4.5" heels just strutting around their bedroom and the occasional "heel meet" without any problems either.

My advice to you is wear them as often as I or any other woman does then come back and say you can wear them comfortably.

In all fairness to you, I also find it annoying when men exaggerate about the size of things too.

new_look · 19th July 2004, 19:46

Becky i will excuse your ignorance, but i think you are missing the point. For a start our heelmeets usually last for a complete day, and probably include more walking than your day of sat in the office, and a walk to work from the bus or whatever. My point with that is more towards you stating that if heels are worn for any length of time, they get more uncomfortable, and yes from experience i do know this. As said previously, i have spent an entire weekend in London wearing nothing but heels, have worn heels for full days out with my girlfriend, and on heelmeets and did not have one moan about my feet. I find it rather insulting that you assume because i am a man and do not have the facility to strut in my heels whenever i please, that i am less than capable of wearing a fairly high pair of heels for any length of time. I dont wear heels indoors at all, what would be the point. Shoes are for outside.

Perhaps from your response you felt that i came barging onto your section of the board to slag off women. If this is the case please accept my apologies because that was not my intention, rather to join your conversation. I would have thought being higher heel wearers you would agree that the women who complain about their 3in heels (that they have ample practice walking in most days) are using a pretty lame excuse. And maybe not in your own prvate world, but in the real world, people the likes of my girlfriend, my mates girlfriend, my mum, my cousin, a few people at work, who wear relatively low heels and complain of their discomfort., so yes it does happen.

i wil look forward to your reply

daz

Becky · 19th July 2004, 20:18

I think you are the one who is showing ignorance and a little immaturity - "you heel meets last a complete day".....wow!"

Daz, I wear heels for arduous shopping with my friends and we walk and walk and you have to remember that women do this on a regular basis. Nearly everything we do involves wearing heels - unlike you.

You can make your comments about women complaining, which is your prerogative. However it is not insulting for me to say that you have neither the experience, or the knowledge to comment on us women moaning at wearing 3" heels.

This section of the board is for women to post their comments and is not mine – although the men are seem to dominate this area more than the women. I do however find your comment rather offensive because you seem to think that wearing heels as little you do can justify you absurd comments.

new_look · 19th July 2004, 21:43

Well if that is the case, then surely with all my little experience, and much less practice than 'all you women' then surerly it would be harder for someone such as myself to wear heels for a full day altogether, even on a heelmeet or an outing as a weekend? Obviously there must be more hours in your day for walking than mine?

With as much heelwearing as you do, and the women i mentioned, noone really has an excuse to complain about enough practice, therefore i believe you have answered my first question, and also annulled your own point,

as for immaturity, then your gaul to continue with your ignorant opinions as to my heelwearing abilities i believe you score top of the board. I didnt target you in particular, however you chose to direct this topic to insulting me personally, Heelwearing isnt such a difficult skill that you can state that i wouldnt know enough about because i dont do it 24/7. I still know what it feels like to wear them for 10 hours in a day so why should it make any difference that you do it more often. Its like saying if i do 20000 miles a yr driving, im a better driver than you if you only clock up 10000. You can still drive, therefore in comparison, i can wear heels, and even my probably 18 or so years of on and off occasional wearing, qualifys enough to have had 'experience' in heels.

My comments were of mild nature and aimed only at certain individuals of whom i did mention in example, and would even back me up with my statement htemselves. Therefore you should not exert such a nasty opinion of either myself or my abilities, or generalising all women into the same category as yourself which is not the case.

Becky · 19th July 2004, 23:58

Daz, your obviously an opinionated you lad who knows nothing about long term heel wearing and the problems that it can cause. We can walk quite happily in heels but after many years of heel wearing the feet start to become slightly deformed with the shape of the high heeled shoe and this can cause discomfort.

Your analogy of driving is absolutely rubbish. The more experience of driving you have the better the driver you become, surely even you can see that from having past your driving test - or are you old enough?

Your initial comments were to belittle women by saying that we should wear "real heels" and you made an arrogant comment to the effect that with your little experience you can wear heels better than we can.

There I think we should quit............and P.S. take your snide comments to the guys section.