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Let me tell you something about beauty and pain.
One of the things about women and high heels is this: if you are under a certain height–and female–there is a certain age at which you perfect the art at walking in high heels. (Obviously I am generalizing for the sake of telling you something.) My cousin is fourteen (I think) but by the time she was, oh... eleven I guess, she had mastered walking in high heels. Not only had she mastered the walking, she could wear them for hours and be (for the most part) fine. And I'm not talking about half an inch here. I'm talking about the 5 hours she spent at our other cousin's bat mitzvah party wearing four inch heels that make me wince. This is because she is barely five feet tall.
Yes, it's true that high heels make a women's legs look longer, and we like that. Yes, it makes our hips swing a bit more when we walk, and guys tend to like that. Also, men tend to be much taller than us, and this evens it out a bit. A bit.
But for some women it really comes down to the fact that we're shorter, and we don't like it. And yes, no matter how good we get at walking in them, and no matter how long we get accustomed to walking in them for, it hurts. I happen to have had an injury that now makes it excruciatingly painful to wear heels for the amount of time I tend to wear my shoes and the height of the heels that I tend to buy. I am limping around my house right now.
I've stopped asking myself this, but I still get the question occasionally from guys: Why do women do it?
Honestly? Because sometimes beauty is pain.
One of the things about women and high heels is this: if you are under a certain height–and female–there is a certain age at which you perfect the art at walking in high heels. (Obviously I am generalizing for the sake of telling you something.) My cousin is fourteen (I think) but by the time she was, oh... eleven I guess, she had mastered walking in high heels. Not only had she mastered the walking, she could wear them for hours and be (for the most part) fine. And I'm not talking about half an inch here. I'm talking about the 5 hours she spent at our other cousin's bat mitzvah party wearing four inch heels that make me wince. This is because she is barely five feet tall.
Yes, it's true that high heels make a women's legs look longer, and we like that. Yes, it makes our hips swing a bit more when we walk, and guys tend to like that. Also, men tend to be much taller than us, and this evens it out a bit. A bit.
But for some women it really comes down to the fact that we're shorter, and we don't like it. And yes, no matter how good we get at walking in them, and no matter how long we get accustomed to walking in them for, it hurts. I happen to have had an injury that now makes it excruciatingly painful to wear heels for the amount of time I tend to wear my shoes and the height of the heels that I tend to buy. I am limping around my house right now.
I've stopped asking myself this, but I still get the question occasionally from guys: Why do women do it?
Honestly? Because sometimes beauty is pain.