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Lord knows I love a pair of killer pumps. I used to walk, run, and dance in stilettos. I don’t know if I just didn’t feel pain back then or somehow I was able to ignore it. These days, stilettos are what I call my “sit down shoes.” I only wear them if I know I’m going to be sitting down most of the time. If I have to walk too far, they kill my feet.
But can a pair of killer pumps kill me? Literally? The answer is yes. I read an article about women falling off their stilettos and hitting their heads. Very dangerous stuff. So I started wondering about other killer fashions. I discovered a lot of deadly trends throughout history. Here are a few:
1. Hoop skirts: There are stories of women getting swept up in strong winds and blown out to sea. Other reports of women’s skirts knocking over candles and setting themselves, as well as everyone else at the party, on fire.
2. Footbinding: I always thought footbinding was freakishly weird, but who knew it killed? Apparently the biggest danger was not the inability to run from ninjas, which was my first guess, but gangrene. I know, yuck.
3. High stiff collar: Not to be outdone by women, men’s fashion could kill too. I guess the high stiff collar was so starched it would cause asphyxia if a man fell asleep—or passed out—while wearing it.
Would you throw caution to the wind and risk it all for killer fashion? What have you done for fashion that makes you cringe? Do you know any deadly fashion trends?
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I no longer go for the killer look. Comfort all the way for me now thank you.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:36 am.
I work in sweats, so sometimes I do like to put on the dog
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:41 pm.
Even when I was “younger”, I didn’t care for the following the trend. Yeah, I had done some of the trendy stuff, but for the most part, I aim for COMFORT.
Case in point, I had always cringe at the four-inch heels that women wear so that they look “good”. I have nothing against them, but whenever I see them, I always think of the high arch that I’ve inherited and think: Those will kill me if I wear them. I really don’t care for the discomfort that I would feel if I wear them. Plus, hearing about how Prince (yeah, the singer) had to have foot surgery due to his long years wearing high heels, and I think: Oh, heck no! Thus, I mostly wear those shoes with two-heels or less (though I’ll admit that I have one or two pairs that are more than two inches).
Oh, and those Japanese-inspired shoes/platforms in which you are some inches off the ground can be deadly.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:37 am.
I love the platforms so I don’t have to hem my pants.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:42 pm.
Oh, I have nothing against platforms if they are only 3 inches or so. But those platforms that are 5 inches and above…well, that’s scary. Lady Gaga can do it, but it’s not my style.
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:16 pm.
I had a pair of what I now call, Stripper shoes. You might know the sort, tall heel and a platform. It’s strange but they looked very much like the shoes that are for sale now. While they added much needed inches and made my calves look amazing, they killed my feet and I couldn’t wear them all that often so I tossed them out. I have now changed the style of shoes that I wear to ones that I can run in easily and are flat. I was talking to Gamer Dude that I probably should look into getting some sneakers with a bit more traction for when I do pub cleaning because I just about fell over several times yesterday when the roof of the pub we were cleaning began to leak a bit thanks to all the rain we had (areas of Queensland are under water because of ex cyclone Oswald).
Wearing shoes with heels greater than 2.5 inches are at risk of having a dropped pelvis and back problems because their center of gravity is thrown off or something like that. I now have only two pairs of shoes with heels and both are 2 inches and under. I can probably run in those heels if I had to.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:21 am.
Oh, yeah, I also don’t get the size 0 thing that models and celebs had going for a while there. Way back when Noah was a boy, curvy women were considered healthy and then there were primitive people who had talismans of the Goddess carved in stone and that Goddess figure definitely had not only big breasts but a rounded stomach and a curvy butt. In other words a real woman, with curves no matter how slight or how large, not some prepubescent figure who freaks out over eating a lettuce leaf. Maintaining a healthy weight is one thing but being so obsessed with it so you can fit into something that probably doesn’t really flatter you and makes your friends and family begin to talk about eating disorders is another.
Sorry for the rant but I really have issues with the modelling industry’s obsession with weight and how we should all conform to being like the models they use.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:01 pm.
Okay. I’m stuck on pub cleaning. On the roof? I get anxiety just thinking about that.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:45 pm.
I probably should have said ceiling began to leak. I am phobic about heights and believe me, there’s not enough money that I can be paid to clean anything on a roof.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:10 pm.
When I was in school, I kept up with the styles and wore heels. I own one pair of heels that I wear to church or formal dining on a cruise. The rest of the time I wear, jeans, sweatshirts or t-shirts. When my sons were small, I wore a skirt and the boys asked me what I was wearing. I don’t see any style of shoes that I like these days so I mostly wear sneakers.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:05 am.
I’m about ready to see the skinny jean trend die out.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:48 pm.
ME, TOO.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:10 pm.
I only wear flats or tiny heels these days. I get scared way up there.
I cringe sometimes when I remember the too tight pants and too low cut blouses. They joined the high heels in the Good Will bag.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:34 am.
I cringe when I remember my fishnet stockings and anklets.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:49 pm.
I love high heels and still wear them, but the fashion item that was painful for me was my extremely tight jeans back in the eighties. They were of the “lie on the bed to zip them up” variety.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:41 am.
I never got into the really tight pants. I’m adverse to camel toe.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:51 pm.
Best. Line. Ever.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:16 pm.
Wheni was 13, I tried on my sister’s 6in stilletto boots. we called them hooker boots even then in the 70s. tried walking and tipped over. Knew then that heels were not for me and the highest heel I wear is still less than 2in.
comfort is key with me.
I have an antique book about China written in 1900, and they showed what a bound foot looked like underneath the bindings. oh my! why would mothers do that to their girls?
On the squee I have new clothes front! my sister (the same hooker boots one, actually) found that her local Penningtons was closing and she grabbed mounds of clothes for me at 2$ a pop!
my friend picked the bags up on her way back from visiting her family and we squealed over stuff last night! 9 tops, 5 prs of pants, and 2 open sweaters. new clothes! and she knows me well- all are comfy cozy cotton.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:43 am.
I have seen the photos of bound feet. Really nasty looking.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:52 pm.
But my green alligator sling backs with the 6″ heels are smoking hot sit down shoes. They look better when I’m several sizes smaller. So worthy of being killer fashion.
Other than some shoes, nope, not playing the fashion trend game. My rule: wear what looks and feels good on your body.
That last picture – that is one very trashy look.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:07 am.
YOu notice in the last pic, she’s sitting down. No way could you walk in those.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:53 pm.
I used to wear heels sometimes, but not too often. I’m fairly tall, so I felt like Amazon woman if I wore heels taller than 2″–most of my friends were pretty tiny and my sisters are really tiny too. I’m 5’8″ and the closest friend to my height was about 5’5″ on a good day with heels, and one sister is 4’11″ and the other is 5’3″ (they’re my half-sisters and take after their 5’6″ father’s side of the family.) I rarely wear them anymore at all–they kill the balls of my feet and make me cranky.
I remember the jeans in the 80′s that came up to your waist, and I had to lie on the bed to get them zipped, then I would basically have to roll of the bed. Talk about torture….
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:52 am.
I’m 5’2 and my best friend was 5’10. Her pants were always too short, my too long.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:55 pm.
Curling iron. I can’t tell you how many times I burned my face with a curling iron. My hair was super duper short, but hey, it needed just a lick of flip at the bang with my handy, killer curling iron. Boys never could figure out where those burns came from. Girls always knew.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:59 am.
Ahh yes, the forehead burn. I’d forgotten.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:56 pm.
I love heels and still have a few pair for when the spirit moves me. But DD2 has many, many pair of gorgeous shoes that I can borrow if I remind her that I gave birth to her. Her polka dot, 4-inch heeled pumps are my favorite – why she won’t just give them to me is unknown.
The entire disco era and the things I wore then are my cringe! The late 70s really need to be forgotten.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:09 am.
Remember gauchos? I may have had several pair.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:57 pm.
Remember back around Y2K and wide and tall heels were all the fashion and rage? Well, I had a pair, and they tumbled me down a flight of stairs. Yep, they nearly killed me. I managed to stop my momentum before I flipped and broke my neck. I’ll still wear heels, but I’m better at balancing on the skinny ones–which makes no sense.
After deciding I was all right, an old hippie told me to get in the bath tub as hot as I could stand, then dump in a pound of Epsom Salt and dribble hotter water in. When the salt dissolves, and you feel your body draw, you’re done. The Epsom salt pulls whatever chemical out of your muscles so they don’t get sore. This works for any trama that may or may not involve fashion.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:38 am.
I use Epsom salts after long runs, Amanda. And, I’m an old hippie. Hollah!
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:41 am.
My father was a Epsom Salt devotee. I don’t think I’ve ever used it, though.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:58 pm.
I like it for topical uses and as fertilizer for the house plants.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:15 pm.
Some of my fashion choices could kill, nyuk nyuk.
My biggest problem with fashion these days is finding something that still lets me feel like a hip free spirit (I may not be one, but I like to pretend) and not a middle-aged woman wearing clothes too young for her. Or Mother of the Bride outfits. There isn’t a lot of inbetween!
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:41 am.
Finding a dress that isn’t too young or mother of the bride is very difficult.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:59 pm.
I read a study that link inflammation from wearing high heels to heart disease. The study said that the inflammation caused an excess of a certain C-protein that is bad for the heart. I knew about the back and joint problems, but this was the first I had heard of heart disease.
I am not a slave to fashoin. I dress for comfort and only wear heels when I am going somewhere that requires I dress up. The last time I wore heels was to a wedding last year, and I needed to run out and buy flats because I couldn’t stand walking in the heels anymore.
Who could walk in those heels in the bottom picture? Better yet- who would want to?
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:41 am.
Well if the study is true, then it’s a good think I work in my bare feet.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:01 pm.
Well, I don’t do much for fashion these days. I’ve turned into Normal Mom and am all about comfort. Really, I never did much care about fashion. The worst I ever did was wear moderate heels and even those killed my feet because I grew up wearing combat boots.
You’d be amazed at how comfortable they are but, going from those to heels is enough to make your feet hurt for a couple of days.
Tight lacing is the one that I know killed. The corset cracked ribs that then punctured your lung. Yuck, right? Much fainting and such because women couldn’t breathe right and you get the myth of the fragile, fainting female with the vapors all the time who can’t do anything strenuous. It wasn’t the women, it was the corset they were wearing! I once wore a corset that was barely laced and I almost fainted, I have no idea how these women did it wearing 40 pounds of clothes and lacing to get an 18 inch waist.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:44 am.
I read about the corsets. I hate spanx, so I can’t imagine wearing a 40 pound corset.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:03 pm.
I traipse about in the cold every winter in that outfit (corset and many lbs of clothes.) It’s annoying, but not as bad as you would think. I do avoid anything that gets my heart rate up, since it’s hard to catch your breath after.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:11 pm.
I’ll try this again and hope I don’t double post.
I do wear heels for some occasions but mostly I’ve put comfort before fashion. I don’t need extra help to hurt myself; I am clumsy enough without it. I admit I have worn things unfashionable enough to make me cringe later, but at least I was usually physically comfy while doing so
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An older killer fashion is tight-laced corseting. It dislocated organs, hurt breathing, and made you more likely to die in childbirth. Currently the obsession with thinness is one of the most deadly fashions. All sorts of people starving to be “healthy”. I do admit to reducing food intake, but I refuse to crash diet or starve, and once I hit a decidedly not skeletal, comfortable low I will stop and rejoice that I can eat a little more to be maintain my weight rather than losing some.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:56 am.
Yeah. the waif thinness is very unattractive. I agree.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:05 pm.
In the 80s I wore Candies. Thought they were cool because, yeah, that’s my name. They were the original stripper shoes. Unfortunately in those days I was a hairdresser working 9-10 hour days on my feet. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Okay, so I looked cool. Now the arthritis in my toes gives me a big WTF whenever I try to put on heels. Didn’t kill me but when I try to look fancy now it feels like its killing me!
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:36 am.
What is it about young feet that don’t feel pain?
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:06 pm.
I have a few pair of heels and one or two that are actually comfortable for more than walking into the event. I see so many of the lovely shoes out there and wish I was enough into shoes to buy some of them.. I restrain not because they are going to hurt (we all know they will) but that I will rarely wear them. I still have a pair of high heeled Mary Janes from WAAAY too long ago that I pop out every once in a while. They’re not flashy, but they are classic.
One deadly fashion trend were long scarves. Poor Isadora Duncan found that out the hard way.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:42 am.
I like Mary Janes. I just bought some Born boots. The leather is like butter. So cozy.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:09 pm.
I’ve always been more of a “tomboy” than a fashionista. It’s comfort for me all the way. Don’t get me wrong, I love heels. Once in a while, it’s nice to feel feminine and for me that includes heels. But after a hit and run accident over 13 years ago, my knees have never been the same. I was recently diagnosed with RA and learned the reason for the pain. ( I have no cartilidge left in either knee & 17 bone fragments in one knee and 32 in the other.)It still doesn’t stop me from salivating over the perfect pair of pumps! Even though I know that after wearing them for a few hours I would be bedridden for a day or 2, I still like to dream.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:57 am.
Ouch! Luckily there are some very cute flats these days.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:12 pm.
I have never met this thing called Fashion. I have no idea where it comes from or what one is supposed to do with it. But if it could kill… I think I’ll stay away! I sometimes have a hard enough time in just plain ole sneakers.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:59 am.
I have fallen off sneakers. I Don’t think I lift my feet high enough. Sneakers are dangerous.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:13 pm.
I used to wear the killer heels with the pointed toe. No more. No heels at all, for this gal. I’d love to wear them because I’m shrinking, but my feet don’t agree.
One fashion trend I should have avoided was the mini-skirt. I had more thunder thighs then than I do now. Not a good look
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:06 pm.
Remember wrap around skirts? Mine came unwrapped in the back and I didn’t know it someone told me. I was in 11th grade. Thank good I had one some good underwear.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:15 pm.
Before I became a stay-at-home mom, I used to wear high heels to the office. I was ok with it because I sat at my desk in my office for most of the time. But at this point in my life, there’s NO way that I’d walk around in high heels (they’re not practical for chasing children around… nor are they practical for ladies pregnant with twins).
I’ve heard of all the fashion trends that you mentioned, but I had no idea that they could kill someone! Holy moly!
There are a few fashion trends that I really don’t like… one is ‘skinny jeans’; they may look ok on some people, but others not so much…and definitely not me. The other fashion trend that I can’t stand is parachute pants. They just don’t look good on anyone. Period.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:33 pm.
No one looks good in parachute pants.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:16 pm.
I have always loved heels. Being short they were almost an essential to getting dressed in the morning. Then I had kids. I’ve gone to flats for almost every day but I still pull out the heels anytime we go to a family function. My oldest was a baby and my mom asked me if I had shrunk because she didn’t realize that I wore heels all the time before. My head rests on hubby’s shoulder when I wear heels, just under his chin when I don’t. Besides that I always wear what is comfortable.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:52 pm.
I’m short. I get wearing heels. I think I look thinner in heels.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:18 pm.
Shoes will do that to you…..I flat out refuse stilletos. I have some lovely heels, but they all have a HEEL on them (not an ice pick). That helps with the hurt foot syndrome.
Fashion trends that aren’t comfortable rarely, if ever make it in to my closet. Therefore no fashion bloopers or dangers. However, I did have a friends who once passed out because her bustier was too tight. I’m assuming that was similar to a corset. Uck–I’d rather have it all hang out.
Happy Monday!
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:55 pm.
I’m waiting for the ultimate comfort trend to come back into fashion–caftans.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:20 pm.
This tells me I should live in sweat pants and T-shirts. Yay! *g*
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:52 pm.
I do live in sweat pants and T-shirts. I never answer the door.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:20 pm.
The only thing good about skinny jeans is that there’s not extra material to fit inside boots.
I don’t work in sweats, but in =yoga pants=. It’s a zen thing, you know?
I remember visiting plantations and they talked about the long skirts and the huge fireplaces for cooking. Lots of women caught on fire while stirring the soup. Eeek.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:32 pm.
Skinny jeans are tricky. Sometimes they feel like leotards.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:11 pm.
I have worn long lined bras and girdles, also “cutlets”, wigs – you name it. I also love high heels, have a collection of shoes that would make even the smallest fashionista drool, but I don’t wear them quite as much as I would like. The highest I wore (and still do on occasion) 7″, but it does have a chunky heel and mary jane straps and is platform for you really find them easier to walk in than the stiletto.
I did injure myself twisting my knee and ankle years ago on ice (not heels – thank goodness) but lately I have noticed that the damage was more than I thought and think twice about going too high.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:42 pm.
7″? You win. Wow, that must have worked your ankle.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:13 pm.
I wore heels back in my 20′s. I had a figure back then and likes wearing dresses and 3-4 inch heels. Nowadays it’s pants and flats. Special occasions might get a low heel out of me but that is rare. I wore a heels to my son’s wedding this past September but after awhile they were under the table all by themselves.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:43 pm.
I think most heels over 3 inches end up under the table by themselves.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:13 pm.
yikes, I really need to spell and grammar check myself when I type on the laptop.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:45 pm.
Corsets used to kill, and now they say Spanx can, too. Same reason — compression 24/7 isn’t good for you.
http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/beauty-style/7-health-dangers-hiding-your-closet?page=6
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:12 pm.
Not that I’ve ever worn Spanx… or a corset.
Ahem.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:16 pm.
I’ve worn a corset… not very comfortable. At all.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:22 pm.
All the re-enactors say, “Oh, they’re perfectly comfortable if it fits right.”
I never believe them.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:20 pm.
they lie. Lie like a dog.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:34 pm.
Same thing with pants that are too tight.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:52 pm.
Spanx kill? Yes! Now I have an excuse to be lumpy.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:17 pm.
It would never have killed you, but I used to wear those wire curlers back in the day. Have you ever slept in those? Pure agony. I tried it later in life and wondered how I managed it when I was young. I don’t remember minding it back then.
Weird.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:19 pm.
Oh yes. the wire and the blue spiky curlers. Pure agony.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:18 pm.
Corsets… cause spinal curvature, collapse lung space, internal organ problems…
I never had a Glamour Shot done… but I’ve seen them at Ellen DeGeneraes site… now I’m sooooo glad I thought they were over priced back then… yikes..
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:53 pm.
thank goodness Glamour Shots are out of fashion.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:19 pm.
I love it when she does those segments! They’re highly entertaining.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:13 pm.
I’ve never been a heels gal. And these days I live in yoga pants t-shirts, tanks and tennies. (I homeschool, so it’s not like I”m dressed to impress.)
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:07 pm.
I love yoga pants, but I’ve never actually done any yoga.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:20 pm.
I love yoga. Been practicing about eight years now. I just can’t start my week off without attending my Monday night class.
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:28 pm.
I gotta think the Pants Down trend with young men right now has got to have cause some injuries. I’ve seen the guys trip and fall.
And what the heck is with that anyway? Not once did I think about the guy of my dreams coming at me with the crotch of his jeans hanging about his knees and his underwear up.
As to fashion disasters I was part of. I was a new waver during the 80′s…my whole teen and college years were a fashion tragedy.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:16 pm.
The eighties hair . . . so tragic.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:21 pm.
I’m with you on that odd men’s fashion trend. I think it looks like they’re wearing a diaper… that’s full.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:14 pm.
Well, if you remember the riots in Cincinnati 10 or so years ago? The cop was chasing a guy with outstanding warrants down a dark alley. The guy hopped a fence, then turned around grabbed his pants to pull them up and the cop thought he was going for a gun. So quite literally….
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:58 pm.
There are some things that I’ve never understood – corsets, hoopskirts, bustles, girdles, spanx, stilettos, skinny jeans when most of the population is overweight, Crocs, Birkenstocks, and ballet flats.
I wear heels, but when I wear heels, they’re from the 40s with Cuban heels and made better than anything you could buy, today. Rarely, my feet hurt afterwards. Then, there’s ballet flats with no support whatsoever – bad for your feet and back. They kill my ankle that has achilles tendonitis. My mom swears that Birkenstocks are the most comfortable shoes ever. They hurt my feet when I tried them on in the store. I’ll take Clarks and Born shoes.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:36 pm.
I had the BIGGEST hair in the 80s, which was SO easy to do with natural curly hair and a lot of it. It’s embarrassing to look at my hs pictures. Little tiny face with hair the size of Texas.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:37 pm.
I would never harm my body just to be fashionable. When I think back on the ways women have hurt themselves over the years, it’s crazy. Wasn’t it mercury in the white face powder they used? If not the powder, then something close to it. Then the tight corsets that could actually harm their organs. Today, when we should know better, we have women teetering on shoes that could cause them to fall and break bones, not to mention the harm they are doing to their feet. Oh, when they get older, they will be so sorry! Have you ever seen an old lady who wore pointed toe shoes for years and years? Her feet are totally distorted and these women are the ones you see in a podiatrist’s office. Oops! Yes. I’ve been there myself for treatment of a heel spur from wearing two-inch heels. Go figure!
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:59 pm.
No, I wouldn’t do for fashion that a lot of others do. I need comfy shoes as I never know on a given day if I will be standing at copier, in classroom, going across campus. So I generally wear a small heal or wedge that is comfortable but stylish. Otherwise, it would be a no go for me.
Now I have some co-workers who wear 4 – 5 inch heals, truly amazes me.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:04 pm.
I have fallen, pregnant, in high heels, slept in wire curlers and rags, struggled with Spanx, and now leave them all alone.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:54 pm.
I never followed fashion. The highest heels I ever wore were 2″ tall. Mostly I wore flats with a dress and tenny shoes with slacks. Unless it was a special occassion.
I wore a hoop once. I borrowed a dress for the Winter Formal my senior year of high school. The person I got it from is many inches taller than me. I had to use the bigger hoop, 2 inch heels and still lift the skirt so I would not trip.
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:22 pm.
I definitely go for comfort now, but when I first started teaching I worked in a 7-12 school. Since I am 5′ 1.5″ I used to wear platform shoes, as they were the rage back then. Yes, you can fall off them. I can’t believe they were so fashionable. High heels were too much for my high arch. Now I wear flats or slip ons. As I said, comfort!!
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:26 pm.
I wasn’t allowed to wear “trendy” clothes when I lived at home and once I moved out on my own I couldn’t afford them. I’ve always believed “neat and clean” is better than trendy any day as some of the looks are ridiculous.
I’m now in my early 60′s and disabled so I go for comfortable and safe clothing, especially shoes. I don’t think I’ve worn a pair of heels since my son married for the first time in 2000. I generally wear some type of pants, a tee shirt, and sandals for about 90% of the year. No fashion is worth your life to my way of thinking.
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:50 am.
Shoes I wear them for work. House slippers I wear them for life. My favorite pair of shoes is a wedge I think over 5 years old. I’ve worn them at least 4 times that I can remember. I love my boots..Friends ask me when I’m going riding. Skinny jeans, now ladies give me a break my legs are the skinniest part of my entire body. I’m wearing those skinnies till I’m 80. Yoga pants I love’em. Picture posted of them on my wall somewhere with the house slippers. Big hair or long hair, can’t decide which is my favorite. But crimped, PLEASE bring back crimped. I dearly loved Crimped, made my thin hair look thick!! Those heels were for dancing on a rock fence when I was 10, didn’t break a leg, just know I must have been graceful. Think the neighbors all came out to watch. And Corsets, I’d love it if they fit anywhere..maybe around my neck something in common with the starched cravets perhaps. My Robe is where I wanna be, Home living is where I should be..sung to the Green Acre theme. Love your books ladies.
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:36 am.
I have come an age when, thank the good Lord, I don’t have to wear those killer shoes or spandex any more. HA Trust me it’s a wonderful feeling. I do feel sorry for those woman who feel they have to wear those big platform shoes and can almost feel their pain! HA
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:45 am.
I don’t know about “deadly” trends, but I know the painful, lingering effects of years of wearing either (1) very high heeled shoes or (2) very flat “bling” sandals. Probably both are what caused my arches to fall and neuromas to form that caused pain in my heels, balls and toes of both feet. I can’t count how many times I visited podiatrists, had injections and minor surgeries to my feet–and now must wear funky, ugly shoes with special inserts. Yuk! But at last I can walk with hardly any pain and I am thrilled because that is my favorite exercise!
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