Pick a side, team heels or team flats, show us where your shoe loyalty lies?
I was surprised and amused to learn a few interesting things about high heels recently, and it got me thinking about the attitudes people have toward high heels today. My scales are tipped heavily toward team heels, always have and I think they always will be. I love the feeling I get from wearing heels, the bounce, the rhythm in my walk, the extra height, and just a ‘hard to put into words’ girly feeling.
High heels were made for women
No they weren’t.
It seems to be widely documented that high heels were first created for european aristocratic men and royals. Not your every day sassy woman. From what I’ve gathered, women later started wearing heels as a point of making themselves more equal to men. Crikey, you’d never think it!
High heels are also thought to have been invented to keep men’s heels in stirrups whilst on horseback – back in the day.
There’s nothing criminal about wearing high heels
Well maybe not these days, but back in the seventeenth century there were european laws in place to prohibit pregnant women from wearing heels beyond a certain height in case they fell and caused damaged to their unborn child. Laws were later brought in to increase the heel height, in order to (brace yourself) prevent women wondering too freely, and therefore less able/likely to have affairs. Ponder on that…
Over in Greece however, laws are still in existence that make it a crime to walk on certain historic sites wearing high heels – in the interests of preservation.
You’ll never find a butcher wearing heels on the job
Well you would have done back around 3500BC, when Egyptian butchers used to wear high heels to avoid walking in the blood of the dead animals they’d killed. With the exception of butchers, high heels were reserved for the upper classes.
Heels are bad, flats are good
Not necessarily. We hear so much about the damage high heels can do, but flats are no angels either. Why do some people assume it’s some kind of miracle to be able to walk in heels? If I had a penny every time a woman asks ‘how do you walk in those heels’…….
We’re all different, and our muscles adapt to different things depending on our habits, I’ve been wearing heels without any back problems, leg aches, bunions or corns for as long as I can remember. Heels are not the evil enemy. Just choose your heels wisely – pick heels that feel comfortable, they don’t all fit the same. Be sensible about choices – i.e. don’t wear your highest, thinest pair of stilettos for a day of shopping, or a night at a stand up concert for goodness sake!
Take Heed
Don’t buy heels (or any footwear for that matter) if they feel uncomfortable or hurt when you try them on in the shop – no matter how fabulous and beautiful they are. Been there, done that and regretted it every time. Ladies I know this is a hard pill to swallow….. #damagelimitation
Team Heels
So to all my fellow team heels members, lets continue to strut in the heels of our choice, enjoy the lift and boost they give us and offer encouragement and reassurance to those trying to make the move over from team flats. Cheers to heels!! You can do it…..
You know your size
Well, technically you can’t be sure because our feet continue to grow throughout our lifetime – allegedly. This has nothing to do with wearing heels, just an interesting thought.
Love this! Especially as an extreme high heel lover, bring on the high heels and strut! xo
Here here 💛👠
In days gone by when I was young I was never out of heels, now it’s trainers or walking boots for me, on the odd occasion when I have to wear heels I go for a 2 in that’s as much as my poor old feet will allow 🙂
Awww, the ‘will’ is still there so I think you still qualify for team heels lol 👠😉
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I’m team flats all the way, I can’t walk in heels. I’ve tried but they’re just too uncomfortable to wear. It’s interesting to read how heels were originally made for men, I never knew that.
I enjoyed reading this 🙂
Thanks Natalya, glad you found it interesting – it’s a very unexpected history of high heels!! I hope one day you find a comfortable pair lol 👠😊
No problem! And yes, hopefully 🙂
I love heels, I just don’t wear them anymore. I want to, but my feet don’t want that at all.
Aww, I guess if they’re uncomfortable it’s best not to force it 👠😊
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I love to see high heels they are lovely but I don’t really love to wear them. Great post ! And wow I did not know that heels was made for men back in the days. Thnt for sharing! Hugz and Kisses, Miss B.
Thanks for reading – glad you found it interesting, it’s strange to think that heels were invented for men, not women – when you look at high heels toady, but there you go – history is full of surprises lol 😊👠💛x
Interesting research work
Thank you for sharing
Wow, great post. You said a lot of things I never knew about heals. I like heels, but not very high as I’m already tall. I like how they look but shy away from skinny heels.
A chunky heel never lets you down 😊👠…it’s all very interesting, this history of high heels…
It’s not showing up on my android phone.
I will try on my laptop.
Very interesting and informative.
I was a very loyal member of team heels but now have had to give them up due to creaky knees.
Surprisingly I have never been comfortable in flats.
So you could say that I am on team in between.
Lol, sounds like team heels is where your heart is – regardless!! 😊👠
Absolutely.
I have been known to drool over pictures of high heels in glossy magazines.
I liked this post so much that I wanted to reblog it but couldn’t find the reblog button.
Feel free – it’s next to the like button hun x
That was interesting. Thank you!
These are interesting facts. The one about men made me think of Prince. I wonder if he began wearing heels, not because he was short, but because he knew something we didn’t. Also, I’m not surprised about women wanting to wear them to be equal to men. I suppose this is a natural thing we’ve always done in order to be seen as equal.
Lol, yes Prince was probably ahead of the game…come to think of it, James Brown was partial to heels as well 😊thanks for reading – history certainly reveals some interesting things 👀
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out of all the nice pictures and all the places you display….. Where are your pictures? of you?
The motivation behind each post is to appeal to those who are interested in the topics and places I post about, rather than wanting to see pictures of me, and overall I think those are the people who enjoy my blog. This post in particular. .is about the topic of high heels, some of the myths and interesting history behind it….not looking for photos of me! Thanks for taking the time to look at this post….I hope you found it interesting. ..feel free to share your thoughts on it.
it was a joke gone wrong but my apologies. have a blessed one.
Lol no worries. ..There are one or two of me dotted around. …maybe I’ll inject a few more as we go! Thanks for reading…have a blessed one too x
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
GLAD I DON’T WEAR THEM! BUT DIDN’;T KNOW THE PRIOR HISTORY—0YOU MEAN MEN PUT UP WITH THE UNNATURAL LIFT BEFORE WOMEN?
Indeed!!! lol. Hard to believe really, I bet there aren’t many men that would want to go back to that trend 😊👎
Not me—my balance—and typing–is already slipping!
Oh, and thanks for the reblogg – much obliged, glad you liked it 💛👌
Interesting article and very informative. Blessings.
Blessing to you too hun 😊
This is good. I use to be team stilettos now I’m team kitten heels. 🤣
Lol, team stiletto is a tough team to stay on all the time 👠💛
Lovely research.
Thanks for reading – It’s all quite intriguing 👠😊
How fascinating, as a fan of heels (sorry wasn’t a perve comment 😀) I do love to see a woman dancing in heels but the history, as I say, was fascinating. Thanks for the share/info 😀
Lol no worries, I know what you mean, lovely to hear that you appreciate them – and yes, very interesting indeed 😊👍