AIBU to say that kitten heels are/were the worst type of heels ****LIGHTHEARTED****

[LynnThese4reSEXPEOPLE]

Inspired by a thread about Bridget Jones - she mentions kitten heels a lot in the bools and I remember wearing them and thinking they were incredibly fashionable.

Now I look back and think they made my legs look short and squat, and that no item of clothing for a grown woman should have the prefix "kitten".

Nah they are awful.

What does Emma Watson think?

They're hideous.

Revolting shoes. Just under heeled mules IMHO.

@PenguindreamsofDraco

What does Emma Watson think?

Ask the PR person...

I think 3" heels and above are much easier than those in the no-mans-land of 1-3" wibbly wobbly nonsense.

It seems the perfect amount to set you off balance whilst not allowing your body to compensate, making the heel height useless for anything but thicker styles.

(without any shoes, sometimes I walk flat and sometimes I tip toe, but I never naturally lift my heels slightly off the ground)

I was thinking this the other day. Kitten heels are the worst. Back in the early 2000s I had some pink cow print ones, thinking back they were hideous

YANBU they're awful

"The mullet of shoes" as Lauren Conrad once wisely said.

@thecatsthecats

I think 3" heels and above are much easier than those in the no-mans-land of 1-3" wibbly wobbly nonsense.

It seems the perfect amount to set you off balance whilst not allowing your body to compensate, making the heel height useless for anything but thicker styles.

(without any shoes, sometimes I walk flat and sometimes I tip toe, but I never naturally lift my heels slightly off the ground)

If I had a three inch heel my toes wouldn't touch the ground lol!!

YANBU. Especially on shoes with long narrow squared off toes...😖

I could never walk in them.

6 inch stripper heels, I have no problem with. Kitten heels? Not a chance.

I don't mind the way they look but they're bloody awful to walk in, I always felt I was seconds away from a broken hip in them.

Yep, dreadful. I always found them hard to walk in too and would go over on them much more frequently than if wearing other heeled shoes. Mind you, I have been blessed with all the grace of a baby hippo so it could well have been user error!

They are awful, and look quite ridiculous, and the very name of kitten heels sounds so naff. I think Theresa May liked them though !!

I find higher heels much easier to walk in because it’s like being on tip toes. Kitten heels feel like wobbly flats.

I was a big fan in the day i will admit. and I still like them now

DD has confessed that when she was little they used to call them my witches shoes

Hate them with a passion. They seem to be like walking on studs and prone to slipping from under me.

Didn't mind them at all

But I cannot be done with the huge platform sole plus 3" heels that make you 5 inches taller and unable to walk in anything like a 'normal' gait

If this is a kitten heel then these are my favourite type!
Just high enough for a little bum wiggle, not high enough so that I can't wear them all day (and night).
What's not to love

YANBU. Horrible, remind me of Theresa May.

She also completely ruined leopard-print shoes for me.

PS if it's not a kitten heel then please tell me what they are called so I can find more of them

Ugh, I could never stand them, even when they were fashionable in the early 2000s. Very wobbly and they don’t really give you the increased hight and leg length that normal high heel does. So what’s the point?!

I think the thing is a normal high heel transfers a lot of your weight onto the front of your foot, which is something you can get used to, like walking on tip toes. With kitten heels your weight is still on the back of your foot which is only supported by a skinny little heel. It makes for very wibbly wobbly walking and a potential sprained ankle!

The truly evil kitten heel is the late 90s version, so beloved of LK Bennett at the time, usually in a shantung silk with a painfully pointed toe. It only ever suited sylph-like Sloanes or those with tiny feet. My 42s looked like boats from the side, and my calves were like trotters from the back.

rigamorph that's not what I'd call a kitten heel - it's more of a Louis quinze heel? I think there's another name but I can't summon it up! they're quite flattering and much easier to walk on.

Kitten heels are so ugly. They make the shoes look so matronly and do absolutely no favours to the person wearing them.