To think high heels (especially when worn casually) look absolutely ridiculous?

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I’m probably going to get absolutely flamed for this.

But aibu to think that high heels are a complete monstrosity? The only time I think they are passable is if it’s something very formal. For example TV presenters sitting on a couch, or attending an award ceremony. As they’re really being worn just for show.

Tbh I don’t see many people wearing high heels these days, but sometimes I’ll notice a women teetering round the park or the shops, barely able to walk and looking very uncomfortable, I’ve even seen a woman bowling in high heels.

They look so uncomfortable and impractical.

A very fashion forward designer friend of mine informed me earlier, after mentioning this thread to her, that not only are stilettos on their way back, they’re going to be white! Double jeopardy 😅

Crocs are vile
High heels generally look ridiculous and around here it's a dated look. Very few young people wear them. Hopefully they will go out of style completely like corsets and other things that are uncomfortable and cause pain to women only.

I was just thinking we haven’t had a “women who wear make up are deeply insecure” thread for a while!

What’s the betting this turns into one? You’ll have to wrest my red lipstick from my cold, dead hands!

I notice the vociferous heel haters on here haven’t commented on my Pamela Anderson post, is she desperate, dated, ridiculous, looks old? Crickets.

Love a red lip! 👄

It’s not a look I particularly like, it’s a bit fussy for my taste. I’ve seen her look a lot better.

Heels can look great with the right outfit no matter where you are. Also wearing them correctly (comfortable width/size) should make them no different to any other footwear to walk in.
They’ve never hurt my feet nor have I ever had to take them off before I get home.

I presume though despite the outfit not being to your taste you don’t think she looks old, ridiculous, desperate or is an Andrew Tate sympathiser because she is wearing a pair of heels.

There's a mum at my son's school who wears smart clothes for work and high heels but she can't walk in them at all, does this weird striding thing in them. I have to walk a different way if I encounter her as I can't stop myself laughing, it's like the Ministry of Silly Walks 😂

I've worn heels since I was 16ish. I'm 50 now. I'm also 5 foot without them. Each to their own.

Well aren't you quite the judgemental, to use your word, "prat"
I'd use my word. But my word in that sentence might get me a slap on the wrist.
Begins with a C tho
Use your imagination

I used to wear them at work, as everyone did. I think they can look nice. I don’t wear them any more.

You are allowed to say cunt here.

I think you just get used to fashion and heels are dated now.I remember years back wearing Doc Martens with a dress and my Mum saying how ridiculous it looked.Heels will undoubtedly make a return. I struggle with what to wear with a dress for a wedding for example as I wouldn't wear trainers and my physique doesn't lend well to kitten heels.

I'm aware.
But not in that context

Things do go in and out of fashion, but as PP on the thread have pointed out, some things go out and don't return. Heels are physically limiting, often uncomfortable, and can cause long term problems with your feet. So I hope they go the way of corsets and foot binding.

You must not go 'out out' much because young people never stopped wearing heels. Neither did old people who still can. Sadly I can't anymore, but I still admire them from afar. Also, do you never look at a magazine or high fashion shops, heels are not dated, the style of the heel might change but they will never date. Agree with PP that fashion changes so we buy things, jeans are a good example! Everyone should just wear what they want, and there's really no need to criticise people for it. Although I will have to agree with you about crocs, I see something wrong when I see 3 generations of a family, both male and female all wearing the same shoes 😵

According to Vogue high heels are making a come back this year!
“2025 is shaping up to be the year of the stiletto’s structural sister: the flared heel. She’s a little bit ’70s and a little bit Art-Deco – equal parts retro glam and futuristic chic. Because, hey! We really can have it all. Distinguished by unexpected proportions and subtle scoops, these playful styles are popping up on both runways and red carpet.”

Omg I am SO over high heels. It's flats all the way for me now. I cringe when I see a woman wearing ridiculously high heels that she's obviously struggling to walk in properly.

I am quite comfortable walking for hours in heels. They improve my posture and my back hurts less.

I have always thought they look bizarre as objects.

The big spike sticking off the back.

Just odd.

And working at odds with the whole function of a shoe: uncomfortable, impractical, slow mobility down rather than enabling it, damaging our feet not protecting them.

They've gone the way of Tudor ruffs, and plucking one's hair to give the illusion of a higher forehead.

Presumably these looked amazing at the height of their popularity too, else people wouldn't have bothered...

I work in fashion. Heels never went out. People wear converse and sneakers more now, but heels are very much in and making a come back.

Calling them dated actually sounds dated.

I haven't worn make-up for decades, and only wore it to work for a week or two (in my teens in the 70s) then decided it wasn't necessary. I can't say I've ever experienced this conditioning, and I'm older than you are.