These Go to Eleven
Nina Ricci added ELEVEN INCHES to her runway models with these heel-less platforms. At my staggering height of five foot one (I nearly hit two on a day with fantastic posture), I’d actually be able to reach the top shelves of my cabinets.
Supposedly, this style shoe is easier to walk in than heels. According to the Guardian‘s Hadley Freeman,
“[T]hey were actually really easy to walk in, and I tell you this as someone who feels precarious whenever she has to swap her ballet pumps for, well, anything. I think the trick is that the shoes are extremely heavy, because they are deliberately weighted in the platform base under the toe. This means that all your weight is forced forwards and then downwards, so you literally cannot tip backwards and there isn’t any of that teeter-totter nonsense you get with normal heels.”
Perhaps gravity does serve a purpose other than keeping bra-makers in business, eh?
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March 6th, 2009 at 4:42 AM
They seem simmilar to fetish pony hoof boots
March 6th, 2009 at 8:23 AM
They look like fetish boot meets geisha mud clog. I can’t imagine people wearing them though. I’m still awash in ugly witch toed boots and spindly heels.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:55 AM
i bet they would be easier to walk in than normal heels… before i broke my ankle, i used to cocktail in stripper shoes because they were more comfortable than normal heels. the case with stripper shoes is that your foot is actually at less of an angle, so less stress on your arch (i’m not a foot anatomy specialist…). oh, the ankle breakage is completely unrelated to my affinity for ridiculous foot wear.
March 7th, 2009 at 9:42 PM
I can’t believe no one has given props on my awesome joke in this post.
March 8th, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Samantha the joke certainly made me smile … props
I have to side with Casquez here. I just see those pony shoes like the ones that have been posted here before. Granted I see the sense in styling since half the time the heel of your shoe just gets in the way (I climp stairs on my toes only so I don’t fall and break my neck) but I’m still seeing pony shoes.