High heels -- C/D

please tell me you're kidding? this is one of my most hated fashion faux pas!!! stop wearing heels with jeans right now, arrggghhh!

heels, hmm, wear em about once a year when i am dressing up as like-a-prayer era madonna. my feet are hella sore the next day. so classic, yeah, in moderation. just give me a pair of docs, thanks, way sexier and more comfortable.

xpost Di says it so I dont have to, heh. Sorry gem, I think heels and jeans are ... well, um, really Chapel street fake tanned blonde? Y'know? :/

As an aside re: the fratty thing, how weird is it that female students still get called co-eds in the US? Like it's still special in some way for girls to be at university.

Flats every time. Oh, and tights? DUD.

i suspect that it's just something that people get used to, but i've never been motivated enough to wear heels regularly. i'm tall enough that i tower over most people, so don't 'need' to wear them. i'm also too poor to take taxis everywhere, which i suspect would make girly shoes more practical for a night out.

I have a few high heels. I only wear them very rarely b/c of the towering over people thing. I love all the vintage-esque shoes this season, but couldn't wear most of them (besides not being able to find them in my size) because the heels are too tall. If they were 1/2 or maybe 3/4 of the height, that would be perfect.

This is a very good point - if you're wearing heels, you always end up doing that kind of dancing that involves minimal foot movements.

Heels with jeans is so widespread in Britian I would never even have considered commenting on it.

I love them. They do make me feel sexy, true, but more because they acentuate the way you move your hips than any idea of domination (this is a wearers view, not a watchers). But I will wear heels for job interviews or any other situation where I need to feel in control. I need the extra height, I don't like people, both literally and metaphorically, talking down to me.

Not true. The effect they produce on a woman's walk is sexy, and they make one's calves and ass look better.

Gem I hope I didnt offend you btw! I wasnt suggesting you were a fake tan blonde!!! :/ Its just thats all I see around where I live - those awful jeans with the HUGE rolled up cuffs, and white pumps under it. Uuuugh.

So, yeah, I can see why someone would say 3" heels are much more comfortable than flats.

Why would someone roll their jeans if they're wearing heels with them???? Trayce, I think you live in Madness City! I've only seen women, including myself, wear quite long jeans with heels, unrolled*; I think if I saw them all rolled up I'd be a bit scared too.

* this is untrue, some girls put on those capris and the heels but I'm wholly against capris anyway so I will not defend this look ever.

That is the law.

I guess I can see how elegant pinstriped slacks or bootleg jeans could look ok with a heel. I think heels look good in the right way too, I have to say. I just cant wear them, for aforementioned podiatric spazmo feet reasons :(

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the tragedyie of gabbneb

I mean, what could be worse? "I swear to god you are the WORST navigator when you're drunk, now I have to turn around AGAIN. This barely-frozen river ice will probably hold us while I fix my lipstick, don't you think? Don't mind the ravening wolf pack or the zombies, I'm sure they won't bother us."

I would see Laurel's horror movie.

does anyone know if it is possible for a cobbler to take a couple inches off of very high heels?

also, what do you think of buying shoes that are a full size too big? is there any way to make them wearable?

Well, I think there's a metal rod inside the heel, actually, so they'd be grinding it down...also then the toe would probably point up, since the hinge was made for the front to be flat on the ground relative to the heel height. I've never considered it...perhaps ask a shoe place? Pref a good one, tho, since this sounds like a major project.

Re size too big: you can put in halters, which are the little cork pads that push your feet back into the heels. It seems like a pain for a full size, tho.

Now I'm curious -- what is up??

haha nothing really. i just wore some 4 inch heels yesterday and realized i can't walk more than 10 blocks in them. and so i was looking at flat boots online and found the exact same pair as a comfy pair i already have, but in brown, on sale, but they are a size big.

http://www.yoox.com/item/YOOX/L+AUTRE+CHOSE/tskay/3FD17CD7/rr/1/cod10/440867383N/areaid/36/sts/searchResult

^but if anyone's an 8.5 (i think they run a little big, im usually an 8 but got at 7.5) these are awesome boots

In my opinion there's no point in getting shoes that don't (quite) fit, but maybe that's just how I talk myself out of the more borderline purchases that I don't really need.

Four inches is quite a lot of heel! But when would you be walking more than 10 blocks when you wd also be dressed up/secksy enough for such boots?

almost always! there's not really anything worth dressing up for in my hood (wore them to a sushi restaurant last night, eh)

I like to think that my walk to and from the subway (from my house) is the longest trip I'll make all day. But then you probably could have guessed that.

well, my work is a 10 to 15 minute walk from the nearest subway

Oh ew, I forgot that! That's what I hate most about going to your work, actually.

well, it gives me an excuse not to join a gym

bell labs, it has been a hard and somewhat costly lesson to learn, but to buy any shoe that is not your size or does not fit well is foolhardy. You'll hardly ever wear them and when you do it will be a hell.

Short girl + huge heels = sexah

Yeah and they are the only ones who can pull it off without looking like Amazongs.

I'm thinking of buying something like these:

http://www.zappos.com/dirty-laundry-dl-my-chell-black