[ExI] how did high heels happen?

[Isabelle Hakala]

I have a few thoughts on this topic...
The first one that came to mind is that when I was a child I was VERY
interested in ballet slippers, they looked gorgeous to me and when I saw
high heeled shoes they gave me the same exact feeling. The higher the
better! They just felt fun and pretty to me. Kind of how skis were to my
step-brother. He justed wanted to slide around on them, and I wanted to
teeter-totter around on heels! They made walking FUN!

That being said, I have TONS of high heeled shoes that are exceedingly
comfortable. I would wear them everyday if they were appropriate. I have 2
pairs of platformed high heels that the heel is 5 inches. I have always
loved high heels. And I am not tiny. I am 5'8" so these shoes make me 6'1"
and it is annoying to be towering over most people, but they are super fun
to walk in and super comfy:)

I don't wear them to try to be more sexy. I wear them because they are
fun:) and I am 41 so it isn't a 'young' thing either:)

The next thing that popped to mind is that some kids are more comfortable
walking on the balls of their feet and it might be that she already knows
that high heels will be comfy on her. The women that find them to be
torturous often prefer to walk flat footed, when barefoot. I walk on the
balls of my feet when I am barefoot. So you can look at your neice and see
how she walks without shoes and she what she does:)

But all in all, odds are, it just seems like a fun thing to do:) it is for
me:) I don't think it is cultural, because I really don't care what other
people think (other than what is appropraite for  *work*).

Hopes this helps to sooth your mind:) -Isabelle

On Dec 27, 2011 12:30 PM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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I am a long-time veteran of observing wild beasts, noting odd
characteristics and behaviors, but I have observed a behavior of the most
inscrutable of beasts, the wildly complicated homo sapiens, which has me
stumped completely.****

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My six year old niece is visiting.  She has one sibling, an eight year old
brother.  She is the exact opposite of a tomboy, a real frilly-laced girly
girl.  Her mother is not that way, but the daughter sure is.  She has few
external influences in that direction that we know of: Disney movies
perhaps.****

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In any case, she has been wanting high heel shoes.  So for Christmas her
parents gave her some toy glass slippers like Cinderella wore to the ball,
which have heels, but it really wasn’t what she was shooting for.  We
googled on women’s shoes, and she was wildly excited by stiletto heel
pumps.  We tried to explain that little girls don’t wear such devices, but
she would have none of that.  She wants these high heels, so now this
presents some puzzling questions.****

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Why would a pre-adolescent child be so fervently attracted to such a
garment?****

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My previous theory on high heel shoes has been destroyed.  I had assumed
that women thought that men found high heel shoes sexy (we don’t) and so
wearing such a contraption would attract men.  But that doesn’t apply to my
first grader niece, who has shown no particular attraction for boys and as
far as we know has no foggy clue of the concept of sexual attraction or
copulation.  But she is attracted to those shoes like bees to honey.****

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Question: could this behavior be somehow hard wired into human brains?  Has
anyone any speculations or theories that could explain why a little girl
would be inclined to wear something that is uncomfortable, impractical and
discouraged by her own parents?****

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spike****

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