does anyone here walk in high heels?

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I adore my birkenstocks and my hiking boots. My hiking boots are wonderful wonderful bits of foot equipment. I haven't been able to find out what box they are in since the move. I'll expect I will have to actually unpack to get them.

I really only wear high heels, which usually are at least 3", unless I get my ass out to the gym... Then I wear sneakers... I feel weird and schleppywhen I try wearing flats. I also find heels to be much more comfortable and make you legs look better. I can even run in them ... But, I have a strange relationship w/ my shoes. I simply love having lots of designer shoes. I have spent wat too much much money on sexy strappy $500 Manolos, Choos, and Chanel heels . However, as of late, I have been too depressed to go out or shop . I can't even fathom entering a store. Actually, I can't fathom even brushing my hair... I've been wearing the same PJs for days now ....

I prefer flatter shoes to heels, though I have learned to walk in them ( i still tumble on occasion). They can really give me cramps in my calves, though, if I wear them for long periods of time. I have some shoes that are "platform shoes"--- the whole shoe is really like a heel with the heel being only slightly higher than the front. This gives the illusion of wearing heels, adds height to me and keeps my feet rather flat so I don't fall down. They're also fashionable so it's a win-win situation.

WHat does the size of your feet have to do with it? I'm 5'3 and I wear size 10. I can walk in heels, but I prefer not to. THey make my feet and back hurt if I wear them for more than an hour or 2.

I've learned to run in heels without breaking my neck. I'm sort of short, so I can't stand wearing flat shoes. I don't even own a pair of gym shoes or sneaker, although I have a few flat sandals.

I do prefer wedge heels to normal ones; they're a lot more comfortable.

I love crocs rubber clogs too! They were all the rage in Truro (Cornwall, UK) but they don't seem to have caught on in London yet, though Colin Baker(the 6th Doctor Who) wore them to Invasion in Barking in March! It is a pity, as i can only find a shop selling them so far in my hometown of Castle Cary Somerset and my friend wants a pair now and i think I might have to wait till i go home for the holidays. I can dance on my toes in them! Accept no imitations! (for often clogs are hard with no arch support for wearing all day.) But wear what suits you.Birkenstocks in the sandal range are good too, anything footshaped. Otherwise its trainers or basketball boots- I found a pair of these secondhand once and wore them long before it became fashionable for girls to do so.
I once got used to a pair of high heels when I was 15 as it was the seventies and the bottoms of the heels were about as wide as the tops, then I got a pair of round ed blocky pvc boots, blocky sandals, wedgies, even wooden flowery clogs abounded then. Now shoes aregoing narrower, pointy and unsupportive in general and i fell off "kitten heels". I'm the other way, I get laughed at for having "duck feeT" and i have a curved spine too. my friend and I wore silver stillettos (super spikys) to a performance of Riverdance once but we cheated, we learned to walk on them first, and then only wore them i n the theatre, and when the last dance came on when everyone dances along with the troop, off came the stillettos, and we did Irish dancing in our stovkinged feet!
I have worn heeled boots but it is even more complicated to fall over in them- I still have a pair of blocky ankle boots but am llooking out for flat knee boots and blocky thighboots for dressing up.

As my dear niece said, high heels aren't for WALKing in.
But, if you want to walk in them, no matter how much you practice, it's always best to have a MAN (the one you're wearing the damn things for, anyway) walking with you, to hold on. I try wearing them at home to practice, but it seems there's just some upper limit that can't be passed. For me it's about three inches. Therefore, I love PLATFORMs since they give me height, without hurting me. As long as the difference beween my heel and toes is less than three inches, I'm OK.
Seriously, these are fashion items, never intended for walking in, really.
Torture devices.
But many of us have been conditioned to like them, to like the look.
I wear them at my desk sometimes, with a mirror to see them, so I can enjoy the view without suffering the pain. Weird? Sure, but I'll take feeling better about myself any way I can get it.

I strongly hate (rather loathe) high heels. My feet hurt with those things.

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot." -- Marilyn Monroe

Tips for wearing heels:

Practice walking on tiptoe. When you're in your heels, try to use the same muscles.

Take small steps. Imagine a line between your feet and try to touch that line with each step.

Wear smaller heels (kitten heels) at first, and work up.

Closed shoes and boots give you the opportunity to experiment with different insoles and arch supports, which can make them more comfortable.

Try on lots of pairs. I have some heels that are almost as comfy as flats. Others I can't walk in for long.

I don't wear high heels for the same reason I don't chemically straighten my hair....because they're painful and cause serious injury.

And why do most things women do to look pretty involve pain?

I do. I find it more comfortable than normal shoes :o (maybe cuz i walk on my toes a lot... my feets hurt when i don't. i mean, my toes hurt too, but less XD)

Practice is the key. Wear them in house untill you can walk normally (i hate when girls have heels they can't use... and they walk like they're gonna fall in a moment... it's so pathethic -_- you have to learn first if you don't want to look funny.)

I love my heels but I CHEATED!

The heels are actually a 2 inch by 2 inch square...

And the front of the foot is a large square with all my toes showing through!

Finally something my pigeon toes can walk on.

I can't bear high heels. I don't like looking at other women's feet in them. I imagine the damage that must be being done trying to walk in a shoe like that, and the visual image is just very unpleasant to me - almost disturbing, seeing a human foot forced into that deformed position.

It's interesting that, although I still wouldn't wear them, open sandals with heels look nowhere near so bad to me, very probably because I can still see that there's a normal foot there, not some peculiar shape at the end of a leg.

I don't like the noise, either. 'Clip - clop - clip - clop.' My first thought is, "Is a horse approaching?" I like shoes with soles I can walk quietly in.

This thread is funny. I'm completely incapable of walking in heels. I've been told I look like a drag queen when I try. It baffles me that so many women contort their feet into these torture devices just to look hot. Not me - I wore sneakers to my wedding!

One of my legs is longer then the other. So I pretty much fall over if I try ot wear heels. I wear most of the time ballet flats I found some made by crocs other then the fact my foot is sweaty when it comes out of them they are great.

Elevated foot covers topic

Never worn the spiky ones. Yuck.

Feel down the stairs when one of a pair of one inch block heeled shoes I was wearing caught on the edge of a step and I broke my ankle, thirty one years ago.

Now it is flats or level soles ONLY.