Formulaic High Heels -Eureka!
It’s comforting to know that science is coming to the aid of high heels. Hurray for them!
No longer must devotees of the high heel suffer agonizing hours in a shoe store trying on pair after pair of delicious shoes. What a waste of time… we could be doing other things like giving ourselves a self tax audit… or ironing.
Who wants to look at all the pretty shoes!
Alas, scientists at the Institute of Physics (London, UK) have come up with a formula. To properly determine the maximum height of heel one can wear without incident.
It is:
h = Q•(12+3s /8)
h is the maximum height of the heel (in cm)Q is a sociological factor and has a value between 0 and 1 (see below to work this out)S is the shoe size (UK ladies sizes). This factor makes sure that the base of support is just good enough for an experienced and sober, high-heel wearer not to fall over.
The variables are:
p – the probability that wearing the shoes will help you 'pull' (in a range from 0 to 1, where 1 is pwhooar and 0 is stick to carpet slippers). If the shoes are a turn-off, there's no point wearing them.
y – the number of years experience you have in wearing high heels. As you become more adept, you can wear a higher heel. Beginners should take it easy.
L – the cost of the shoes, in pounds. Clearly, if the shoe is particularly expensive, you can put up with a higher heel.
t – the time since the shoe was the height of fashion, in months (0 = it's the 'in thing' right now!). One has to suffer for one's art, and if the shoes are terribly fashionable, you should be prepared to put up with a little pain.
A – units of alcohol consumed. If you're planning on drinking, be careful to give yourself a little leeway for reduced coordination
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/iop-sch031904.phpThe article goes on to say, “Essentially this part of the formula explains what women have always known – that you don't buy shoes just because they are comfortable, you can afford them and they look good – many other variables come into play" – quotes Dr. Stevenson.
Now would someone buy shoes just because they look good, they are comfortable and can be afforded. Oh yes, that’s what is on the mind of every stiletto purchaser as they saunter through their favourite shoe store front doors.
Now all we have to do is hand them a piece of paper with our formula and they can trot out the latest fashion from Blah & Boring located in Beigeville.
The point of this little formula was rather tongue in cheek, however, it leads one to believe that all this shoe fetish stuff is nothing but hooey.
Au contraire, mes amis. Once one is trapped in the clutches of shoe fetish, there is no escape. Formula or no formula. It is a passion. I remember when I tried on my first pair of 5" inch heels... I was beside myself. The first steps were like heaven. I was finally home.
Ps. I saw a some friends of mine downtown today, and one friend, well she was wearing a very tight black PVC skirt with corset-like lacing along with some delicious boots. Ahhh … if onlymore would …Heelfully Yours
Gillian
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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
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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
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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
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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.htmPersonally, 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
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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.htmOh 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
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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 4 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
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Alas... 5" Heels Spotted Downtown. Joy!
Well… this little burg can surprise me every once in awhile.
It was a lovely day here in the naked city. The big smog. Warm and spring-like… we have almost forgotten the motorcycle gang killings and settled into waiting for the smog to descend upon us.
But this also means summer temperatures and away go the boots and shoes and out comes the dreaded Flip Flops.
Not today … not today.
I walked into our Library-slash-downtown mall and there, in the hallway, a lovely Latino girl wearing white 5” pumps. I was beside myself with glee. Finally, some other kindred spirit wearing really sexy heels.
And she was ever so gorgeous.
They were being worn to be seen, no long pants, no long skirt. They were to be enjoyed. She walked well in them too. No stutter steps… no pausing to re-capture balance.
It was such a pleasure to see and behold.
But alas… summer beckons… it bears down on us. And the hideous footwear of rich students acting impoverished and the Top Ten People. (In case you do not know the term Top Ten People, it was coined many a year ago to refer to office workers who only saw top ten films, read top ten books, listened to top ten music, go to top ten vacation spots) They are horrible people.
With summer comes flats. I am bracing myself. Gently easing myself into this period of no heels and no boots. However, with luck, there will be more kindred spirits walking the sidewalks of our fair city, proudly strutting in their 5” heels.
I can only hope and dream … and wait, to see if real shoes return.
Heelfully Yours
Gillian
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Who Should Wear Super High Heels?
Of course my motto is – High-Heels at All Times.
However…
There are times when they should not be worn. Or more importantly, who should not wear them. I don’t know if I could stand seeing Martha Stewart in 5” heels… wait… scratch that… on second thought, that’s kinda hot… I mean when you think about it.
How about Rosanne Barr… Well, apart from the sheer hydraulics and engineering required for such an endeavor, I think the money spent on that quest would be better directed to finding a cure for AIDS or sending a live mission to Mars.
The thought of Rosanne in 5”heels… nope. Nothing.
And that brings me to my point. It takes some doing to not seem hot and sexy in high heels. You have to bring some sort of ugly to the package to not bring it out. They can make anyone look sexy.
Condaleeza Rice in black 5” pumps as she orders some nation obliterated by bunker-busters. Yes… hot!
However, Janet Reno… it can’t be helped, she can’t pull it off. There’s just something about her in heels that can not be imagined… or imagined in a bad way.
But do not despair if you feel heels are a hindrance rather than a help. They can be a sexy start. And if you wear heels and get comfortable wearing them, in no time at all, the sexiness of the heels will travel up your legs and transform the rest of you.
So starting with some really nice heels is the beginning of a new you. Chuck away those self-help books, they never address the power of the high heel. Never! Buy a pair of black 4” pumps and voila, the rest of your wardrobe will change to conform to the heels. It’s true.
And before you know… you will be the sexiest person alive!
Heelfully Yours
Gillian
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Save Us From the Evil Flop Flops!
Flip Flops. . . in short . . . are not shoes. They are so far from being shoes they may as well be Alien wear.
But they cover the bottom of your feet, does that not classify it as street wear? you say.
No!
It’s beachwear. . . something to keep your tender tootsies from being fried silly by the hot sand at the beach. Or the even hotter cement in your backyard pool area. But they are not designed to wear to a club or to the mall.
You would not see six inch heel pumps being worn to the beach. Impracticable beyond measure (although you will see high heels if a beer commercial is being filmed).
Yet, when I go out to clubs, I see the scourge of my existence. Flip Flops… on the dance floor! The horror! The sacrilege! Is nothing sacred anymore?
Although, it might be the city I live in. It’s a medium sized city with an unhealthy obsession with anything University and was once called the City of Fads. (Oh this city used to a sea of acid wash) However, most people, in a city where the studentia almost outnumber the residents, seem to dress like every day is laundry day!
Hence the preponderance of Flip Flops as the number one choice of footwear. Even in the dead of winter. There could be three feet of snow and a wind-chill that puts a shiver into Polar Bears, yet there you see them . . . the Flip Flops!
They have their role. They have their place in society. But as a formal or even a casual shoe choice? Heaven forefend.
But okay, I live with this ignominy. Because I live for the night life, I love to Boogie. And the dance floor is sacred. Yet to see anyone out on the town painting it whatever shade they like wearing high heels, or even just sexy footwear . . is such a rarity these days.
So I ask, for the sake of all that is sacred and Holy. . . leave the Flip Flops in the beach bag where they belong.
I beseech you!
Heelfully Yours
Gillian
Why Men Should Wear High-Heels!
There are many reasons why men don’t wear high heels. Yet, there are just as many compelling reasons for men to don the infamous stiletto and strut about. If history serves, men wore high heels before the fairer sex decided to include them in their fashion oeuvre.
Height: the most obvious reason, high-heels give men added height. And this should help those men who are somewhat height disadvantaged to match their dates who may be wearing 5 inch stilettos. And to intimidate underlings at your place of employ!
Bar fights: men would not enter into any agreements of fisticuffs (as much) if wearing a pair of stilettos. That whole balance thing is different in a pair. Conversely, if you do find yourself in the midst of bar brawl, having six inch daggers handy on your feet can come to use. Come on… you’ve all seen CSI!
Girls: the more a man stretches beyond the confines of narrowly designed social constructs for the male image, the more a woman is inclined to imagine those men who wander outside the lines and what they could mean in bed. A man who knows the joy and the heartache of wearing heels, may be more user friendly in the sack.
Exercise: high heels make you sweat. Having to charge up a flight of stairs in those precarious instruments of delight can take your breath away. And the amount of concentration and planning to transverse a flight of stairs in the stilettos can help with exercising the ol’ grey matter- to boot.
Compromising: If you And your lady friend are both wearing heels, then you will have the same walking gate. No more having to wait for her to titter up those stairs because you would be too!
And lastly, the appeal to that last vestige of testosterone, wearing high heels is an extreme sport.
Enjoy
Mia Magenta
Here is one of the images from our site. The model is Mia Magenta... and she wants us to be kind to robots... but not fear them... anyway, love her shoes!
These ones are new and importantly to me. . . they're shiny! Shiiiinnnyyyy!
Gillian
Can Wearing High Heels Damage Your Body?
You all have heard it. High heels will ruin your knees, will ruin your feet and cause all sorts of back pain.
It's true!
But so does playing football, or skiing, or even jogging. Yet I do not hear a hue and cry about how everyone should stop playing sports because there's a chance you will suffer some bodily damage.
Life happens... deal with it.
That's what we do as humans on this planet. When early Hunter-Gatherers roamed early Europe, you did not hear the tribes Healer lecture the Tribal elders about how hunting and gathering would wreck your knees and cause back pain. They just went out and hunted and gathered and sometimes they got walked all over by a rampaging horde of Elk!
Life happens... deal with it.
And so it is with the wearing of high heels. It's true for some people, they develop back pain and sore knees. A friend of mine is right now in that predicament and can no longer tolerate heels and now looks admiringly at Doc Martens... the flat, flat workboot of Punks and Goths.
But others do not succumb to the effects of high heel wearing. For some, the higher heel has made their legs stronger and their balance almost perfect. They are able to deftly navigate a sidewalk littered with baby-buggies, beggars, churchies begging for your soul and steel venting grates, the small squarish holes a maw to which to swallow a stiletto, without so much of a grunt!
So the decrying of high heels as an unhealthy footwear choice is really a matter of taste. If you live in a city, such as mine, where most of the women walk like football players, and dress like they are part of a drunken angry mob, high heels are always associated with being a tramp. While in other more sophistcated cities the wearing of high heels is fashionable and trendy - it all depends on outlook.
Are you trendy enough to wear high heels? Are you confident enough? Are you able to take the precautions to wear them... by training to wear them, exercising your high heel ability before going to the wedding in heels for the first time since Prom. Leg lifts! Stretching! Deep knee bends. These are all necessary to wear heels... and then the practice of wearing them.
If gangstas can learn to walk in $5,000 Nikes with the shoe laces untied... then women can learn to walk in the infinitely safer high heel when compared.
And not only that... you can watch with bemusement as cars crash into other said vehicles while the drivers try to ctach a glimpse of your well turned and high heeled legs!
Thanks
Gillian
Welcome to The Fetish Lair Blog
Hello...
Welcome to our first posting in out blog about fetish footwear. Here we'll talk and discuss about the world of high heel shoes and boots - super sexy ones - fetish ones and anything we think is cool about the art of wearing extreme heels.
What sort of heels? Anything starting at four inches and upwards... even ballet heels. Platforms are included... thigh-high boots... as long as they have heels.
This is an out-growth, a separate joining, of our regular website - The Fetish Lair (
http://www.thefetishlair.com) where we showcase and make available original pictures and videos of models wearing fetish footwear...
Yes, there is a membership to the main viewing area, but for the casual observer, you can check out the guest gallery, the forum, and even the shoe museum.
But here, we'll talk about things that are more fluid in the world of high heels... things that don't normally pertain the regular site.
And we'll share ideas, opinions and news.
Heelfully Yours
Gillian
