Posted on 10/26/2009 2:26:15 PM PDT by pissant
When Suzanne Fetting sees women shuffling down sidewalks in heels way too high for them, it makes the confidence coach crazy.
"Instead of lifting their feet up and planting them gracefully, they do a little thing called shuffling," says Fetting, a former runway model. "It drives me nuts."
And if they aren't dragging their feet forward, they wear the heels the way they wear running shoes. "They don't have that sexy sway that you get when you activate the hips," she says, adding you have to do that if you wear five-inch stilettos.
Fetting, who'll be speaking this weekend at the West Coast Women's Show in Abbotsford, has a closet filled with five-inch stilettos. She adores high heels. She has Fluevogs, Iron Fists, and lots of other styles. At five-foot 10, she already towers over most women, but she likes the feeling heels give her.
"I know when I put on high heels, I feel more confident," she says.
After years of watching Vancouver gals wobbling along in their heels, Fetting decided to take matters into her own hands. She set up a business called High Heel Appeal and offers classes to anyone who wants to learn how to strut her stuff like a runway pro. Why?
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I do too. I don't even own a pair - I never wear them.
Besides, I'm a klutz enough as it is with flats on. ;-)
What grabs my attenion: a woman in uniform, lady bicycling, runners legs, swimmers legs.
(Note, one of the above is wearing boots!)
Hey, what can I say...
My motivations and responses are rather simple and straightforward.
(What.. clean dry cushiony socks? Where’d ya get ‘em, I need some.)
Converse?
Are those old converse..?A set of flats or maybe Doc Marts would have been better with that dress.
*Ack, speaking as an artist again!*
And the dreaded female mugato walked into Kirk’s view...
Cause they make our legs look fabulous, improve the appearance of what might otherwise be unattractive feet, and make our hips wiggle more than they otherwise would. And make our ankles look trimmer so we can wear longer skirts without seeming clunky and fat-calved.
All that said, I can rarely wear them because I am very tall and the heels push me over six feet, which makes me tower over a lot of men and makes even the tall ones uncomfortable.
I’m 5’5” tall.
I speak at my eye level.
That is often a bad thing.
Especially when heels are involved.
I’d have to beg you not to wear them were we to speak.
When I was a kid, my old ma sent my Sister to Deportment Classes. One of the things taught was how to walk in Heels. Perfect posture and one foot in front of another. It was a method to separate the ewes from the sows.
These days, cattle like tromping is the norm.
Just take position and observe in any North American shopping mall.
You’ll see.
When I was a kid, my old ma sent my Sister to Deportment Classes. One of the things taught was how to walk in Heels. Perfect posture and one foot in front of another. It was a method to separate the ewes from the sows.
I'm no sow and have done just fine in life without having to prance around in heels to get attention.
Perhaps women who aren't afraid to eschew conventional mores are the ones with the genetic advantage. ;-)
Good one and rather poetic .... ;)
I’m willing to bet three weeks pay that you move far more gracefully in field boots than most of the youth in my area do in their sneakers.
Well said Sis.
Loved but scorned, back when I was young and a killer of men, 2/35, 3/4 Cav, we dreamed of those unconventual women who had mores and were most congenital.
Women represent stability in society and for the most part enforce it. They also teach their daughters the lesions that they have learned from their Grannies and their Grannies. If you look at history there is no new.
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