The Shoe That Killed a Woman
I go to work wearing my black and white AirWalk sneakers most of the time. It doesn’t matter what clothes I’m wearing, I usually ruin my whole “look” with the sneakers. But I don’t mind, because they’re comfortable and they make me feel like I am walking on clouds.
I like “not feeling” my feet when I walk. High heels usually make you aware of your feet, aware of your step, and they put you on a heightened level of sensitivity and balance. Not only that, they make everyone around aware of the fact that you are approaching. I think this “anticipation of the arrival of a woman” is part of why high heels are sexy. Add to that; they make you walk a certain way, add to your height, and might improve your posture (temporarily before killing it 30 years later).
I love high heels but I always feel they slow me down. When I need to go somewhere where I just have to sit down most of the time, I wear heels. Everywhere else, sneakers.
When ballerina flats became popular, I was delivered. I could wear something flat, unheely, and comfortable. It didn’t slow me down but it looked great and did not cramp my style. I must confess though, I have not bought flats for a long time and have relied solely on my B&W sneakers. However, today I bought this cute black patent leather pair from NEXT, they were on uber-sale:
And while I’m on the subject of shoes and heels, I came across an eerie, “classy shoe fetish” site that manufactures punitive shoes and sells them for pretty high prices. Check these out:
I don’t need research to tell me these will kill my back. They don’t even look healthy…punitive indeed!
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January 28th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Those shoes look like red and white deer hoofs.
January 28th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
OUCH! </p>
<p>They look painful! In fact a society that mandates such shoes (if it existed) would be more oppressive to women than anything we’ve seen so far :)</p>
<p>Would you wear any of those extremely pointy high heels?</p>
January 28th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Do you wear those shoes if you want to continously walk as a tap dancing ballerina?
January 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
AY!
January 28th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Love the shoes! The ones you bought, I mean. I love nice shoes on women. Which makes me a hypocrite I guess, because I practically live in combat boots :O<br /><br />The ones in the bottom picture are gross. Reminds me of pictures I’ve seen of the way Chinese women used to bind their feet. Nasty!<br />
January 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
The pointiest I have right now is identical to this shoe:<br /><br /><img src="http://images.ninewest.com/images/nw/product/PG.BTGRETTO.DGREYPA.PD.jpg" alt="" /><br />…which I suppose is not very bad.<br />
January 29th, 2008 at 12:11 am
If you ever get those red shoes I’m definitely asking you out for dinner.<br />Nope..those bottom black ones won’t qualify..sorry.<br /><br />
January 29th, 2008 at 9:33 am
From on top of my 12cm-high-heels I disdain you for ruining your outfits with airwalker sneakers..how can you do such a thing?this is despicable Tololy!DESPICABLE!!
January 29th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Reminds me of the Chinese practice of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footbinding">Footbinding
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January 30th, 2008 at 12:10 am
You gotta be kidding me! Wear these shoes? I’ll walk barefoot, thank you very much.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
those ballet shoes grabbed attention when Image and film maker Floria Sigismondi used them in her videos, especially with <br />The White Stripes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58283nPmVI4<br /><br />and Christina Aguilera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7pQpNx-F4<br /><br />Ms. Knowles also popped up in one of her videos wearing ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaNLdKbu1iM <br /><br />I think they’re awkward, but they did fit in Floria’s work as she always works out this eerie mysterious factor to her music.