Newsreaders and weather reporters wearing very high heels

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.

eazybee touché 😉

eazybee

fur-lined boots

Fun-lined boots-much better for skipping along.

fur-lined boots

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Twiggy when young

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.

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 🙂

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.

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

This thread shows that women are able to make decisions about footwear for themselves, not governed by a foolish unsubstantiated diktat claiming (high heels) will ruin your feet, give you varicose veins, are bad for your posture and are a throw back to a time when, God forbid, women were subservient to men
Stilettos, thin heels and pointed toes, were fashionable in the 1950s, just about the time women were becoming more independent; before that women , and men, wore heels of varying heights, usually block heels , from the sixteenth century onwards.

During my lifetime I have of course worn all sorts of heels etc. When I was dancing and giving exhibition pasa doble and latin american shows you should have seen the heels I wore. I think the highest was about 3", but I am not very tall and they were also much better to pivot on, so it was a much more practical reason to wear them. Driving and walking about always wore flat shoes in those days so a big variety with of course walking boots for tramping in the countryside and wellies for cleaning up stables etc, so think that having a wide variety of footwear was probably quite good, and had no foot problems withthem. But these days, comfort comes a long way in front of fashion etc, and I usually just wear flattish boots and shoes and have a decent pair of slippers with a good safe sole that I can o out to the dustbin in. Have never seen the point of those rather stupid fluffy bedroom slippers, which dont even have good safe soles on. Bringing up a family and busy doing all sorts of things at the same time, I wanted safe , comfortable and practical slippers and still do

Last time I wore spiky heels was in the USA in the 1990s doing glitzy fundraisers. UK academics dont really do high heels. More like jeans and t-shirts or hoodies.

Agree with Grammaretto - the pelvic tilt is not a good result and to be avoided. However, there's evidence for walking around barefoot on your toes for a few minutes each day as this strengthens the calf muscles and helps build/maintain balance in older people. We do this at my Strength and Balance class where the average age is around 83 - not a stiletto in sight.

FranP

Magenta8

I was once told, I don't know if it is true, that some women find high heels more comfortable - something to do with the tilt of of their pelvis.

I was given heels at age 9 for my fallen arches. My heel tendons do not work with flat shoes, even though I walk barefoot often.
The height is lower now for balance though.

I was given heels at age 9 for my fallen arches

I was given orthotic insoles and told to wear sensible lace-up shoes aged 8.

Magenta8

I was once told, I don't know if it is true, that some women find high heels more comfortable - something to do with the tilt of of their pelvis.

I was given heels at age 9 for my fallen arches. My heel tendons do not work with flat shoes, even though I walk barefoot often.
The height is lower now for balance though.

Thanks Allira. It was embarrassing but I don't think there are bruises. I'm well padded.

Grammaretto

Barbie dolls have moulded high heeled feet. We don't.

However I didn't feel very clever today at the Glasgow meet up. I slipped and landed quite heavily on my backside. I was wearing my sensible boots and hadn't had any alcohol 😅

Did you want to make an entrance? 😁

Hope you're not too badly bruised.