Comments on: Ay-yi-yi No. 3

By: Jenny M,

Jenny M, — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:12:40 +0000

Your comments about breaking the heels off shoes reminds of a good yet partriarchal movie “Romancing the Stone”.

By: jezebella

jezebella — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:22:37 +0000

and, PS, lest I forget: The shorty is taken less seriously than the tall because, yes, men in general are taller than women in general. The tall and the deep-voiced are granted automatic authority. I wonder why that is? Is it, perhaps, the patriarchy? I beliee so. Yes.

By: jezebella

jezebella — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:20:16 +0000

What is DSW? They have comfortable professional-looking shoes at prices I can afford? Weitzmans, even? Where do I find this?

Why I do not wear flats every day: I am short of leg, round of stature, and I have always had, even in my thin youth, the cankle. Flats just make me look and feel stubby. Like the other shorties around here, I get sick of having to look UP at everybody all the time. People find it easy to dismiss the shorty.

By: littlem

littlem — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:40:08 +0000

NEVER too old to wear cute shoes. NEVER EVER. And the cool thing is they can be FLATS and you can RUN in them (although I will admit to a few “Easy Spirits for business drag”, as Ms. Kate so eloquently put it).

You can even kick patriarchs with the pointy-toed ones (in self-defense, of course).

Say it with me: Sigerson Morrison! Stuart Weitzman! On sale! At DSW! At working woman prices!

Go forth and stomp!

By: emjay

emjay — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:29:10 +0000

Stella: flat sandals.

Any shoes that carry with them the potential of snapping a tendon should not be worn by anyone, ever.

I am also five feet tall. However, when you have a loud mouth like mine and no fear, no one realizes that you barely clear 60 inches. Tonight I chased off two teenage boys who were beating up on a younger boy, in a marginally-sketchy neighborhood of our nation’s capital. It didn’t occur to me until afterwards that maybe that wasn’t the brightest idea I’ve ever had. All’s well that ends well. I hope the little patriarchs-in-training ran home scared.

By: Frumious B.

Frumious B. — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:16:21 +0000

Sorry, Stella, shoes with inflexible soles are also bad for you.

Does anyone remember Moonlighting? Cybil Shepard *always* took her shoes off to run. I liked that about that show.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:36:01 +0000

When i took an IMPACT self-defense training class last month, one of the things we learned is that when you’re down on the ground fighting full-force against an attacker, your shoes evetually tend to go flying off. Even good running shoes with laces. You learn to just keep fighting, with bare feet. Glasses fly off too. Maybe some clothes. This happens. But when the adrenaline is flowing, you don’t even notice. As soon as you get a break to run, you back away then run, barefoot or with one shoe, or whatever. You don’t feel the pain until it’s over and the adrenaline lets up. Neat little fact of physiology.

But speaking of running: how many women are actually fit enough to run any distance? To sprint really fast? If you can’t run away in comfy shoes, it doesn’t really matter if you wear stilettos. And I’m willing to bet: that skinny half-starved little waif in the video clip probably doesn’t have enough strength or stamina to run more than 20 feet before she collapses, out of breath, stilettos or Nikes.

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:46:33 +0000

I suspect that pink-tulled tootsie’s ability to run in stilettos is to some extent a product of video editing. Notice how much time she spends behind identical cars, and how long the camera’s focused on her head and shoulders?

By: Burrow

Burrow — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:32:29 +0000

I hate Bust. And magazines everyone should subscribe to: as ever, off our backs. And I’m not just saying that because they published me.

By: Stella

Stella — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:18:06 +0000

I admit it - I wear them. Sometimes.

But I am 5′ and I HATE having to look UP at EVERYONE. ALL THE TIME. I usually wear a pair of stylish and comfortable black leather boots, with sensible heels - I can wear these for hours and hours and hours and have no foot pain or leg pain. I can only wear the ’stylish’ heels at work where I get to sit down most of the day - no going to the grocery store afterward.

I need to get some of those cool boots that are semi-platformed… you know, the ones that are like 2″ heels, but filled in, with a solid sole along the bottom… ? Those will give me a bit of a lift and still be comfy.

I have to ask, though - if you NEVER wear heels, what do you wear when you have to ‘dress up’? And don’t say a tux. Those of us who live in East Texas can’t make fashion statements like that.