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JustAnotherGen

(33,286 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 05:32 AM Sep 2013

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Vulgar is separate from your well being BainsBane Sep 2013 #1
Former ballerina JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #2
Good answer except... Phentex Sep 2013 #3
I only know that neither my mother or I have them BainsBane Sep 2013 #4
Mine are horrid JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #6
I don't think they are vulgar. HappyMe Sep 2013 #5
I think they are hideous PasadenaTrudy Oct 2013 #7
Maybe not vulgar dynasaw Jan 2014 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2019 #9
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2020 #10
Kooky topic bucolic_frolic Jan 2020 #11

BainsBane

(54,553 posts)
1. Vulgar is separate from your well being
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 05:42 AM
Sep 2013

They are bad for your feet. When I was very young, my grandmother showed me her bunions and told me to not to wear pointy shoes or the same thing would happen to me. I know that women who wear high heels all the time shorten their Achilles tendons and aren't able to stand barefoot. There are a host of problems that come with them. In my case, I lack the basic coordination to walk in heels higher than 2 1/2 inches. On occasion I see some shoes that make me wish I were more coordinated. Like these:



I posted a picture of them in the Lounge last week. The cavers picked it up and said I was wearing hooker shoes. They are in fact Missoni. I won't be buying them, however, since I don't stand a chance of being able to walk in them.

JustAnotherGen

(33,286 posts)
2. Former ballerina
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 05:55 AM
Sep 2013

I have the bunions and hammer toes to prove it. Add in an autoimmune disease that attacks the spine and hips and Jimmy Choo is a man I can only observe from afar. I love looking at them - but then I try them on and . . . Ouch.

I guess I'm lucky that my husband thinks my low heeled riding boots are sexy. Eh? I think he thinks they are sexy because I can keep up with him when we are walking in the city.

Oh and those shoes are not hooker shoes. My peers wear those to work daily.

Phentex

(16,462 posts)
3. Good answer except...
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 04:47 PM
Sep 2013

bunions can be hereditary. And they suck.

I have no idea why people wear torture devices of any kind.

BainsBane

(54,553 posts)
4. I only know that neither my mother or I have them
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 05:02 PM
Sep 2013

Despite my grandmother's having them.

JustAnotherGen

(33,286 posts)
6. Mine are horrid
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 09:02 AM
Sep 2013

Combination of pointe shoes and hereditary. But it's not worth it to even think about surgery until I'm in my 50's

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
5. I don't think they are vulgar.
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 08:24 AM
Sep 2013

I have a pair of black stilettos. I also have a couple pairs of lower (inch to 2 inches) shoes. The only flats I own are a pair of moccasins.

PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts)
7. I think they are hideous
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 05:05 PM
Oct 2013

but I'm coming from a hippie aesthetic...

dynasaw

(998 posts)
8. Maybe not vulgar
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 07:31 AM
Jan 2014

but certainly stupid. Ever watched those videos of models falling down all over the cat walks trying to walk on sky high heels?

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bucolic_frolic

(46,561 posts)
11. Kooky topic
Thu Jan 16, 2020, 06:43 AM
Jan 2020

Don't see why this belongs on DU.

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