To think ladies are not wearing heels anymore

[wouldntmindbeingmrsw]

I was watching a fashion item on tv the other day,and the presenter said " isn't it wonderful that we are all wearing flats now ".

I have worn my trainers a lot over the last 18months, but I've still worn my wedge heeled sandals too.
I'm really looking forward to wearing a dress, thick black tights and boots with a heel.

Has everyone converted to trainers now?
I know they are very comfortable,but is glamour fading fast?
AIBU to want to keep my heels? I will keep wearing them anyway, as I'm not one to worry about it.

I love how most women on MN claim to be feminists yet are the first to shame other women for doing something that can be perceived as frumpy or 'old'.

patriarchy doing well!

And no one gives a shiny turd what you're teenaged DD thinks!

@lolliwillowes

I love how most women on MN claim to be feminists yet are the first to shame other women for doing something that can be perceived as frumpy or 'old'.

patriarchy doing well!

Agreed. So far on this thread we have been informed that heels render the wearer:

• an old lady
• unfashionable
• bizarre (“I literally don’t know anybody who wears heels”)
• intent on attracting the attention of men (yet strangely heels are also said to be the province of the over 60s! Hold on to your husbands, girls, the sexagenarians are coming for him!)
• horrible looking (from a PP: “heels are stupid and make you look horrible”)
• intent on deforming her own feet.
• so keen to attract the attention of men that she puts up with ‘excruciating pain’ from ‘torture devices invented by men’.
• unable to walk properly (notice how anybody choosing to wear heels is described as ‘tottering’).
• unable to run away from male attackers.
• not respectful of Sarah Everard.
• stuck in a time warp where glamour and heels are inseparable

Threads like this make me laugh so much. Of course, what is really under attack is women who choose to wear sexy clothes and shoes. WHY oh WHY won’t we all just wear flat comfy shoes and stop making other women feel bad about themselves? WHY oh WHY do some women insist on wearing strappy heels, because they like them, and encouraging men to find them attractive? Why won’t they just wear Birkenstocks or orthopaedic shoes from Hotter? The bitches!

The Kurt Geiger website (referenced by a PP, who wisely noted that any younger women hearing that MN disapproves of heels would be straight out to buy some) is awash with glamorous looking high heels, for anyone who is interested. I also saw photos of a polo event in the US, at which all but two of the young celebrity women were wearing…yes…have you guessed it…high heels.

I’ve just spent the evening out in Manchester- lots of women in heels in the bars and restaurants!