For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
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High heels empower women in a way.
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.
High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat, you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move - like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a woman's wardrobe, her desires.
High heels are pleasure with pain.
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
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