The other week I happened to be walking through town on a Friday night when I realised just how many girls were stumbling around in six inch heels that didn’t even fit them. They were all either dragging their heels along the floor to stop their shoes from falling off altogether or were already limping around because their blisters had come early.
I must admit, I own my fair share of high heels, amongst my mountain of ladies shoes, although some of them rarely see the light of day nowadays! I am now a wearer of the mid-heel, those shoes that are neither high nor low, but I don’t really see anything wrong with that. I wear my mid-heels with pride!
After years of experience I have finally found that, apart from the mid-heel, I am also able to wear the strappy heel and the ankle boot, both of which play an important role in my shoe wardrobe. Comfortable fitting shoes doesn’t automatically translate to ugly shoes though, since you can even find gargantuan heels that fit well and don’t fall of your feet the first step you take.
I’ve noticed that many of my female friends have started to feel the same as me about high heels as they’ve grown older and feel that they have been consigned to frumpy flats or, god forbid, Crocs (no hard feelings if any readers wear them – I just can’t stand them!). I almost fell into the same trap for a while but managed to do a quick U-turn just in time.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not some kind of shoe hater. I love shoes! I repeatedly find myself wandering zombie-like into the shoe department when out clothes shopping, and it’s always those shockingly high heels that I gaze at longingly.
I never buy them though, but that isn’t because I don’t want to – trust me, I want to! It’s just that I know what kind of shoes will be comfortable on my feet, and for me, in a battle of comfort and fashion, comfort always wins.
It may sound like a very motherly thing to say, but finding a comfy pair of high heels is incredibly important, and they really do exist. Just as you should never try to shoehorn your feet into a pair of heels two sizes too small, you shouldn’t let them float around in a pair that scrapes the back of your foot.
Or you’ll end up with feet like this!
One of the most important things to remember is that if your shoes don’t fit, you will end up with blisters and the walking style of a newborn deer. Sure, you could just take them off but unless you’ve managed to commandeer a friend to give you a piggy-back, you’re going to end up picking bits of gravel out of your feet!
