Is it just me or do high heeled shoes always get scuffed really easily on heels?

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Is this just a case of cheaper shoes? (Clarks, M&S I have this prob with. Maybe not Jones Bootmakers) Anyone recommend high heel shoe shops where the leather doesn't come off heels? Does this happen at top end with L K Bennett?

Thanks :-)

Oh, yes. It's one of the inevitabilities of high heels. It's more likely to happen with expensive shoes, in my experience; cheaper shoes tend to have plastic heels, rather than leather covered. A good cobbler can fix them. I'm on Christmas card terms with my shoe fixing man!

However, if you want heels that stay pristine for longer, shoes with metal spiky heels or heels with stacked horizontal solid leather layers might be good bets; and I find wedges with non-leather soles have done well

Yes I find that too, particularly when driving. I now have driving shoes, aka a cheapy pair of flats.

Really? What does the cobbler do to fix the shoes? V interesting!

Glues the ripped leather back down and makes the heels look like new. I don't know how he does it.

Good to know thanks! Where do you all usually buy your heels from? Do you really find that more expensive shoes get damaged quicker than cheaper ones? Or is it just simply like you say that it's only the leather heeled ones that are problematic full stop? What about suede heels?

In my experience, the expensive ones get knackered more quickly. The leather is softer and less able to stand up to pavement cracks. Suede appears to be slightly more resilient than leather; my Whistles 'French 75' heels and LK Bennett spiky boots are bearing up quite well, whilst my leather Louboutins have made many visits to the shoe hospital.

Prada shoes seem to be made of stiffer leather, so I'd say that their heels are the exception to the rule of expensive shoes knackering up more quickly.