How Well Shod Are You?

To be well shod.

I believe the origins of this phrase has something to do with horses – but no matter, it speaks well of high heels as well, in a peculiar way.

As I walked through Melonville today, a shiny warm day, I saw a few brave souls wearing heels, mainly 3”affairs… but at least they were heels. Most were wearing the dreaded, horrific Flip Flops.

And I started to wonder why the sexy high-heel is so regarded as ‘freakish’. It doesn’t make any sense. Why? Because everyone secretly lusts after them.

To wear high-heels (let’s make it perfectly, clear high-heels are 3 inches and up) makes you very aware of the very act of walking. They make you feel sexy. This will in turn make you look sexy.

Do you disagree.

Well, there are very few exotic dancers who wear flat shoes. And if they do, they will go broke. Any dancer will quickly determine the way to increase income is to learn how to walk in heels. Because no matter how often a person decries and scoffs at the high heel, they are most often attracted to them.

The high-heel is alluring and sensuous. The wearer is saying, I like to look and feel sexy.

High heel boots only transfer up the leg what the heels start, wrapping the legs in a provocative sleeve of leather, shifting the focus away from sexy to sexy power.

So, in a way I’m happy not everyone wears high-heels. It’s always refreshing and tantalizing when you happen to see someone IS wearing them and you feel a kindred spirit and attachment that is signaled between the wearers.

Break away from the bland, the blah, the ordinary and the conformity. Don a pair of 5” pumps and show of your legs. In my opinion, you will definitely be well-shod.

Heelfully Yours
Gillian

High Heels - Blessed Are Those Who Wear Thy Heels!

Today, while poking around the internet, looking for tidbits of information and delight, I stumbled upon something that was both horrifying and compelling. And in weird sort of way, actually helps my crusade for high heels.

It was an article about the way woman dress provocatively, and by doing so, become sinners in the eyes of God.

Oh, baby . . . that’s what I’m talking about. Yeah!

In fact, in a sense of backfiring of biblical proportions, the writer’s emphasis on how sexy a woman dresses leads men into temptation (never mind any girl on girl), and I quote:

Christian woman, do you ever dress like a prostitute? You may not intend to do so, but if your clothes draw a man's attention to your body, then you are guilty of this wickedness. And you are an accomplice in the destruction of men's souls, even if you don't sleep with them. If you think prostitutes wear five-inch stiletto heels, fishnet hose, very short black leather skirts, and very tight, bright red sweaters, you prove ignorance of this subject!
Ohhh … baby! Pardon me while I sprinkle some cold chardonnay on my sweating, quivering brow. The whole article in its decrying of the way woman dress and the shameful acts that woman cause by donning clothes and slipping on shoes is ... Well… I have to say … it’s Hot baby … HOT!

I mean… this article read like a hot sexy erotic novel from Blue Moon books. Take this paragraph … please:

High heels were not invented for comfort, but to alter the shape of the calves and the movement of the hips while walking. A mincing walk is a wanton walk (Is 3:16). Sleeveless dresses, sandals with straps, lace and gauze overlays, ankle bracelets, and many other items should concern the consciences of women striving for public modesty.
Oh public modesty… oooohhh … it’s never been so modest … and sooo large!

But here’s the thing. These scriptures were written thousands of years ago by scores of men and rewritten several times over by men, lonely, desperate men, who had entered monasteries so they could eat. They lusted. They dreamed… and they hated themselves for it.

And many a year later, we have modern day purists trying to interpret ancient texts, out of context, to fit their narrow little world view I call “Fear of Sexuality” or more importantly “Fear of Life”.

I mean the last thing a Christian Purist will do is read the whole bible, cover to cover. Because by jiminy… look at all the sex in there. Oh the begetting! And if a wife couldn’t begat… then another woman was brought in to begat. They tend to only read the sections that bolster their own personal Biblical view.

So, there it is. Keep wearing those high-heels. I mean can there be anything sexier. This article virtually says there is nothing hotter!

By the by, if you’re curious, the whole article is listed here. But I caution you; you’ll either laugh you head off or get really aroused. But the last thing you’ll become is a non-sinner.

http://www.letgodbetrue.com/proverbs/07_10.htm

Oh and the last thing a Christian will do, at least a purist, is turn the other cheek. It is the one tenet of the Bible that sticks in their craw.

Heelfuly Yours
Gillian

High Heels - It's All In the Arch!

What causes us to lust after the high heel?

They are undeniably sexy… true.

But they hurt the feet and the legs and cause back problems, it is complained. True . . . they do. But so do running shoes and flats … even Flips Flops . . . if worn incorrectly, or you have a bad fit.

The culprit. The arch.

Badly fitted shoes kill that arch support. I’ve seen women who have incredible foot problems who have never worn a heel over and inch, and that was by mistake when they didn’t realize they were wearing a Cuban Heel.

Oh the humanity!

A properly supported arch is sooo important regardless of the heel height. A six inch heel with a high arch that supports the curvature of the foot is best. A low arch will cause the damage, but more importantly, a poorly fitted, incorrectly matched arch does the most damage. At 6” or 1”, the result is the same.

In conjunction with this is the toe-box. One should always wear high heels that give generous room in the toe box. A good discussion on this can be found at:

http://www.medianet.pl/~andrew/shoes/comfy_heels.htm

Personally, I think training is the proper way. If you constantly wear Flip Flops, you’re feet will spread out until you look like a Hobbit from the Shire. And who wants to see that on the dance floor (Sorry Frodo…).

As I’ve said, high heel stilettos are not for everyone. Unfortunately, in Melonville, the ones wearing them are far too often those who shouldn’t, and I get misty eyed when I see perfectly shaped legs come to an abrupt stop in Flops. It kills the curvature of the calf, which is such a big bonus to wearing the heel.

But all that doesn’t matter.

The high heel is elegant, provocative, sexy, signaling, sensuous, and gives one a tingly feeling. Can this be bad?

Absolutely not!

Heelfully Yours.
Gillian

Talk-Shows Seem To Hate High Heels!

I need to find out how one becomes a camera operator on a talk-show.

Why?

Because whenever a star comes out wearing super sexy, fantabulous high heel shoes, as they walk across the stage to take a seat and begin to converse with the host, the camera operator invariably cuts them off at the knees.

Or if they are in a particular temperamental and disturbing mood… will cut the image of just above the ankles.

There are few free joys in the world, and seeing celebrities in their heels is one of them. Mind you I don’t sit with bated breathe and drooling, quivering lips to see a brief glimpse of celebrities heels… that guy lives down the hall.

I am more curious and pleasantly surprised by the style and type of heel each celebrity wears. And some of these shoes cost a fortune. More than some small countires entire GDP for the year, kinda fortune.

So if I was a celebrity who shelled out serious platinum bars for a pair of Manolo’s only for the grips and gaffers to see them … well I’d be pissed.

I can visulize the star in the hotel room, walking in the heels, making sure they fit and are comfortable to avoid that awkward step before sitting in the chair … and thinking of the heel training they have done so they can glide across the stage floor as elegantly as possible – only to have some goof-ball camera operator chunk the shot.

It would get by bloomers in a knot!

I mean do these stars show up in Birkenstocks?? (Shudder… gasping for air)

By no means… they have careers to consider.

Therefore, I appeal to all that is good and human in these talk-show hosts to plead with these camera operators to widen the shot just a titch (you know what a titch is) and include the celebrities footwear in their glory walk to the interview chair.

You’re ratings would go up… I know the guy down the hall would start tuning in again!

Heelfully Yours
Gillian

High Heels - All The Time, Any Place!

I just read an interesting forum thread talking about the long time affects from wearing high heels extensively. That after a given time your leg tendons shrink and you are locked into wearing high heels the rest of your life.

Heaven forefend!

Mind you, deftly stepping out in 6” heels when you’re 75 years old might be tricky and perhaps not advisable, this is true.

However, this never has to happen if you take your breaks in the heels. Meaning, get out there and run a few blocks in joggers. It will do you’re legs good and your heart too!

Aside from the long term health benefits, other posters contributed by saying things like who would show up at a little league game wearing stilettos. I mean holy sacrilege. Okay. Hang on here… I have to stop foaming at the mouth.

Now this was a high heel shoes forum discussing fetish footwear and ultra high heels and there were posts from some misguided and delusional posters decrying the wearing of the stiletto above 4” unless a night out on the town is in order. I had to keep checking to see if I had accidently wandered into the Gerry Falwell website by mistake.

Again … for shame!

What is this lunacy? Of course you can wear 5” and 6” heels to a little league game, but one has to think, style, wardrobe, culture… yeah culture baby!

You don’t wear the pumps… you wear the boots with a 5” heel. With a longish skirt or loose fitting pants or with capris. You have to coordinate or die!

Or sandal-plats or wedge heels with a significant heel - to the little league park.

No one would wear a slinky evening affair to the park – why would anyone wear evening wear stilettos?

Is there no common sense left in this world? Do I have to dress this shaggy little planet? It’s still called Earth, right … I have had my head in the cyber-world for awhile now, so it’s best to check.

High heels can be worn everywhere and anywhere at any time. Except perhaps if you’re scuba diving… and I have prototype high heel flippers in the works. (Patent Pending). So watch out Seaworld!

Heelfully Yours
Gillian

Walking In High Heel Stilettos - It's More Fun Than You Think

How does one walk in super high heels? Ahhhh . . . the eternal question, usually posed by those who are wearing dead flat shoes.

The one thing I’ve discovered is everyone has their one way of walking in them – their own gate and cadence. To each their own
. . .

Some walk by placing each foot directly in front of the other. This is a sexy, elegant walk as it causes the hips to sway and the legs to sensuously arc slightly as the shoe travels from behind to the front.

Others like to goose step in them, throwing the heel outwards -then placing the heel, then the toes downward, kicking the air slightly as they go.

Still others stomp . . . but we won’t get into that.

I’ve seen the glide step, or the pony prancing which was all the rage with the models on the runways, where you pick up the heel and stab it downwards much as a pony does when stepping out. (I can’t tell you how much I hated that look, and for whatever reason that caught on, I do not know, but it seems to have passed)

Then there are those who walk like football players in them. (Very popular around Melonville here) and must be brutal on the feet and ankles. Not to mention the longevity of the shoes themselves.

Practiced and elegant walkers in high heels, stilettos and pumps combine most of the established walking style: gliding, swaying and goose steping until they have a style of their very own. The act of walking then becomes second nature and no thought or obstacle even remotely bothers them . . . dodging and weaving . . . and I dare say even running in the precarious heels.

And if you think running is out of the question, you did not see the Japanese game show where they lined up around eight participants on a running track, all wearing some degree of heel, some only a couple of inches, others taller and in platforms. And the gun was fired and off they ran . . . sprinting down the track in heels.

Ironically, the only one who fell and injured herself was the one wearing running shoes, the one who was supposed to prove the point about high heels.

It just goes to show you what my grandmother used to say . . . If you are going to be stubborn and obstinate – then you better be damn right.

So wear the high heels at any time and anywhere. At first, it will be tricky. There will be problem areas and you may have to navigate with caution. But eventually, you’ll become so skilled in high-heels, you’ll put the contortionists and the acrobats on stilts at the Cirque du Soliel to shame.

Heelfully Yours
Gillian

Foot Specialists Are Evil Goons of the Sensible Shoe Cartel!

Some people can’t leave sleeping horses lie. Especially if they’re foot specialists.

Note the time and what you’re doing as you will hear it here first. Yes, there is a conspiracy. The real descendents of the Knights Templar working with secret assassins and DaVinci Code specialists are – foot specialists.

Podiatrists.

I know because I was accosted by one of their agents provocateurs the other day while walking with Mia Magenta as we strolled to our intended destination. We were stopped in a parking lot – not a poorly lit, empty one as in All The President’s Men – because this is Melonville afterall folks.

And she chastised my friend for not wearing shoes, as she was walking barefoot, enjoying the feel of the ground, the dirt and the grass beneath her feet. And this foot specialist went on to inform her of all the dangers and damage she was doing to her feet.

My my, are they not the same ones who tell us not to wear high heel shoes as well. Now you have to wear shoes which leads me to think the pseudo-doctors are just working in league with the cartel made up of the running and sensible shoe manufacturers.

They show how little they know about feet. Like the foot specialist telling all and sundry on CNN to wear high heels only on special occasions. Could there BE any more damaging advice to give?

Would you tell a skier not to practice on the slopes and only wear the skis during the race only? No. Is there chance of injury… yes. But less so if you have trained. And so it is with high heels. You have to wear them and train in them in anything above an inch.

I have seen more injuries from people wearing the incorrect running shoes than high heels and the foot specialist has no answer other than buying more expensive shoes and . . . more importantly . . . see them as regularly as possible.

Hence the sinister motives of the foot specialist – remember they have cottages and motor boats to support.

So the day that people should not walk around without shoes is equated to wearing 6” high heels has arrived. Oh but I guess Flip Flops are fine. How did people over all these millennia get by without shoes? I wonder. . .

Wear your heels and practice the art of the high heel. And ignore the foot specialists . . .or listen to them at your peril.

Heelfully Yours
Gillian