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[JustAnotherGen]

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[BainsBane]

1. Vulgar is separate from your well being

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]

2. Former ballerina

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]

3. Good answer except...

bunions can be hereditary. And they suck.

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

[BainsBane]

4. I only know that neither my mother or I have them

Despite my grandmother's having them.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Mine are horrid

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]

5. I don't think they are vulgar.

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]

7. I think they are hideous

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

[dynasaw]

8. Maybe not vulgar

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

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Kooky topic

Don't see why this belongs on DU.