I’m putting this out there. High heels.

[Undercoverbanana]

I think they are ugly and make women/girls look ridiculous. AIBU?

Comfortable heels are still a health and safety risk.

A lovely, well made pair of heels makes a massive difference, but you don't have to wear them to look amazing in an outfit.

As a qualification present I bought myself a paid of studded Louboutins to wear in the office. It will sound silly to some, but they give me an instant confidence boost. Clients also positively comment on them, and they make me feel good.

They are not for everyone, but you shouldn't put others down for wearing them. You do you, and all that.

Comfortable heels are still a health and safety risk.

Comfortable heels are still a health and safety risk.

Thank you, I’ll be sure to wear a hi viz and bash hat when I wear mine.

Well it’s one look! Wouldn’t save your back though.

I know three women who have fallen while walking in heels and broken bones - arm, wrist, ankle!

I don't think women buy heels for men's benefit at all really. If anything, it's other women who will notice your shoes. In the main, heels make you feel taller and slimmer and that's why women buy them. It's a confidence boost.

How high do you consider high. Some high heels are truely beautiful and many women can walk quite easily in them.

Not everyone finds them uncomfortable or has bunions.

I just tripped and fell up a kerb wearing Solillas! I’m cool with a risk assessment based on 42 years of wearing heels that I’m good to go (unless has been taken),

Mid to kitten heels are fine and do not cause tottering. Tottering looks really awful, I cringe every time I see someone struggling to walk in heels. The squashed look being the worst with overspill. It looks ungainly and just a little bit desperate to please is my overall impression.

If you can stride confidently in high heels they can look amazing, but even then you run the risk of the heel getting caught, uneven ground and general hazards by wearing risky footwear.

Better to be elegant and together and be able to walk properly.

All of the horrendous falls and subsequent injuries to my feet came from flats. It makes it harder to buy heels. I feel more secure in heels and they pinch and squash no more than plenty of flats I try on. Most shoes hurt my feet to a degree. Even my nicest loafers pinch the widest part of my foot.

I also live in skirts and dresses and can't pull off purposely ugly shoes with my style. And I like the height a pair of simple, classic well made heels gives as I'm 5'3. I don't feel finished if my shoes aren't tasteful, it's a pet hate of mine and I think it makes women look unfinished.

But men look “finished” in flats?

Ooh, a 23-page long thread on one of my favourite pet hates. Stupid women's shoes. Not rtft, but damn tootin' right high heels are bloody stupid. Who declared that things you can't walk in should be considered the only decent formal wear for women??? Not that I wear them.

I also hate make up. Here all week for more pet hating.

High heels = Ball and chain.

The really high ones that are fashionable now are pretty "Fetish" IMHO, but you can't beat an elegant sandal or court shoe for glamour!

ferrier

Only just catching up with this.

You're arguing that "women have far less hair than men" = "removing all hair makes you more feminine" ?

That's not a logical leap.

Men are generally taller in comparison with women... So, to be really, really feminine, we should aspire to be one inch tall?

Men have deeper voices than women, so to be as feminine as possible, we should aspire to have ludicrously high voices audible only to dogs?

I realise my examples are ridiculous. But it's also ridiculous to argue that since men are hairier, women should have no hair.

And your description of female body hair is not true for many (most?) women. The hair on my legs isn't exactly goriila-esque, but it's certainly not "invisible" either.

All women have body hair. Removing it is fine. But removing it doesn't make you more womanly/feminine. How could it? You're literally removing an actual aspect of a natural woman's body.

@Loopytiles- everyone looks better in shoes that "finish" their outfits flat or otherwise. I didn't state that anyone HAS to wear heels, just that some people choose awful shoes that jar with their clothes- in my opinion.

What exactly is "unfinished" about choosing to wear shoes with a horizontal base, instead of a diagonal slope, and not putting pigments on the skin? I wear makeup sometimes as an "extra" but I'd be annoyed if someone deemed me or anyone else as "unfinished" without it.

"Unfinished" to me would be forgetting a basic such as putting shoes on or brushing hair. The optional extras are on top of what is already good enough.

*Aq

Comfortable heels are still a health and safety risk
Lol flat shoes are a health safety risk for me.

Lol flat shoes are a health safety risk for me.

I can trip over in absolutely anything!