Newsreaders and weather reporters wearing very high heels

All part of the 'Show' presenters are 'dressed' to present the show.. not there ordinary clothes.

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petra

^i feel as though the gains made in the 70s in terms of outward equality have been largely lost^
I was a feminist before the word was coined.
I shaved my armpits, I wore beautiful high heals and I didn’t burn my bra.
My attitude was in my head, not what I looked like which was what i wanted to look like not what others dictated.

Agree.

M0nica

I have never been able to wear high heels. I bought 2 pairs when I was 18 and had a summer job and spent the next years ricking my ankle tottering around.

At the end of that year I got rid of them. Ever since then I have worn lower heels, never more than 2 inches. I am thankful to think I was so sensible. How many broken and sprained ankles falls etc I have avoided my decision I hate to think.

I now know that I have dyspraxia, sorry a neural disability, but mine was diagnosed int he 1980s, that mean I have poor fine motor control. It is why I trip and fall more than average any way, am not safe on a bicycle and my handwriting is illegible ond, of course is why after a short flirtation with high heels, I dtopped wearing them.

I could have written this about myself! I have no diagnosis but have long suspected I might be dyspraxic. You have made me feel that I am not the only one in a world of people who can do all of those things without thinking about it. Thank you M0nica 🙂

I was the generation, art school in the 1960s, when women and girls were dressing with imagination and individual style up to a point

I sprayed my Clarks school lace-ups gold, wore a lot of eye makeup and psychedelic prints. Others were more inventive. Clothes were beginning to be androgynous. Think Twiggy with her boyish figure.

Boys too were wearing flamboyant outfits. It was the swinging 60s.
Then what happened?
We thought Germaine Greer etc had done their bit for women's lib, but not enough apparently.

In the workplace women were fighting for, and sometimes winning, equal pay with the men.

It goes to show we can't rest on our laurels if this generation has gone back to, or is heading for, square one and is dressing to look attractive to men and not comfortable.

Twiggy when young

I've never really been able to wear high heels either - despite the fact that, at 5'2, I could use the extra height. I spent most of my teenage years in Doc Martens or similar, and now I spend most of time either in trainers, sandals in the warmer weather or ankle boots with a small heel.

Grammaretto why do you think women are dressing to please men? That really is a dated opinion.

The women I know from teens to in their eighties dress for themselves.

I wear heels because I like them and they compliment my clothes.

I also wear trainers, ballet pumps, Chelsea boots, doc martens all sorts depending on my clothes on the day and what/where I am going.

Grammaretto

Twiggy when young

I was never Twiggy-shaped but I did have a checked pinafore dress and those shoes too!
They were only mid-heel as far as I remember.

GrannyGravy I don't know what the attraction is of very high heels unless it's to make you taller, make you feel more confident perhaps, or merely following fashion.
I know you wouldn't wear them on your own at home so there must be a reason.
I know plenty of young people.
One of my DGD does wear v high heels. She fell down a flight of stairs a few weeks after starting university and ended up in A&E with concussion and the face of a prize fighter.
I hope it's put her off. She's beautiful.

I saw one of the famous weather presenters (can't remember her name but she's always on the BBC) broadcasting live from her little corner at Broadcasting House a few years ago wearing the obligatory high heels. I said to the person I was with, "bet she takes them off after the broadcast". Watched her walk back to her desk and take off her shoes immediately!

Oh, give it a rest, Grammaretto.
No-one is trying to make you wear high heels.
You don't know the attraction of high heels?
So no-one should wear them?
You know we don't wear them at home.
Really?
Your granddaughter fell down a flight of stairs at university?
(I won't say the obvious.)
But live and let live.
We don't mind you stomping around in your fun lined boots as it clearly gives you pleasure.

fur-lined boots

eazybee

fur-lined boots

Fun-lined boots-much better for skipping along.

eazybee touché 😉

Put your fun-lined boots on eazybee! Cheer up 😁

Grammaretto I've managed to fall down stairs (more than once) without wearing stilettos and stone cold sober, too. It's easy if you have the knack.