If they don’t reinforce spiked heels, should they in the case of obese women?
When I see some of those spiked 5in to 7in heels and some obese woman wearing them, I wonder if they reinforced the heel. Getting all that weight unbalanced on that heel could cause it to snap. Do anyone know if there is a maximum weight those heels can support?
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Really? I have never seen an obese woman in spike heels.
I have wondered the same thing.
Great queation.
@chyna Really? I have never seen an obese woman in spike heels. Yes, too many. I have also seen heels cave under women way less than that, like 130–140lb; so a woman tipping the scale above 240lb and up I would think that heel is taking a lot, and can fail at any moment. At the moment that epic fail happens I can only imagine how a woman displacing that much weight will be able to easily keep their balance and not have some nasty fall.
@Hypocrisy_Central I’m 128 lb and I have never had a problem with heels even coming close to caving…...and I’m close to being considered underweight for my height. I am with @chyna though. I have never seen a ridiculously obese woman wearing spiked heels. Thicker platforms maybe though
They should make them extra strong for the safety of fellow bystanders. Who wants to have a plus sized gal wipe out and crash down on top of them when their shoes give way?
this guy does
I have never seen this. I have on occasion seen a plus sized woman wear cowboy boots, but never stilettos. Maybe its local to your area.
I honestly don’t know how any women, regardless of size, can bare to wear high heels. They look so friggin uncomfortable.
Do anyone know should be “does”.
Other than that brilliant question, as usual.
@Hypocrisy_Central highest pair I own is 6 inches though most of mine hover at 5. I’m 5’9” barefoot
@cutiepi92 @Hypocrisy_Central highest pair I own is 6 inches though most of mine hover at 5. I’m 5’9” barefoot Yikes, 5’9” barefoot and you want to wear 5in heels!?! You just want to tower over your man or have a man who is a basketball player huh?
My son and I were sitting at a cafe near one of the memorials near Front Street in Philadelphia. We were about to order when this African-American woman, probably about 5” 1” and weighing at least 200 pounds suddenly collapsed on the sidewalk. Some people help her to one of the tables where she sits for a while, looking lamentably at the broken heel in her hand.
It had totally collapsed beneath her. I don’t know if she hit the brick sidewalk wrong, or got stuck in a crack. There may even have been cobblestones at that point. I don’t remember. In any case, she really had no business wearing heels on such an uneven sidewalk.
She sat there while my son and I ate, and around the time we were getting ready to leave, she stood up, and walked off in her stocking feet. She was wearing some kind of dress that looked like it was a cross between an evening gown and an Easter dress. It did not show her in a good light. Of course, neither did all her swearing when she collapsed.
But it is all the proof I need that larger women do indeed wear high heels. Oh. I see women just like her walking around in heels all the time in this city. It defies imagination.
Who are the “they” in the question?
To answer the question:
No, they should not reinforce such heels. Don’t encourage risky behavior.
@Hypocrisy_Central to be fair, I don’t typically wear those around my boyfriend as he is shorter than me. However I still wear my 3–4 in. heels because since I’m already taller than him, what’s the point? Why should I be regulated to ugly flat shoes just because I was born with long graceful legs instead of midget ones? Most women don’t wear heels because they add height, they were them because it elongates your silhouette and makes your legs look 10x sexier than flat shoes.
I grew up in a tall household. My father is an ex pro-basketball player at 6’10”, my mother is 6’ and my little brother is 6’7” and growing. I’m considered short in my household, but with that I have also been raised to love my height and wear whatever f***** shoes I want to. I don’t WANT to tower over my man, but I have gotten to the point where I don’t care. If I’m “too tall” for a person, their just a narrow minded dumb person anyway >_> I’m happy my SO had the balls to talk to me, towering and all :)
I’d like to see Godzilla in a pair of “killer heels”, just to camp it up a bit more.
I’ve had stilettos break under me. I did wear the hell out of those boots, though. The sole was nearly worn through by the time I lost the heel. I should have known better than to wear them to the mall with its slippery tile floor.
God I miss those boots.
And they do have reinforced heels: They’re called “wedges”.
We make our own footwear choices, for better or for worse.
My mind immediately went to Kinky Boots (the owner of the company designed solid steel shank shoes for cross dressers because of their weight).
Personally, I despise high heels – women totter around in a completely unnatural gait and look ridiculous IMO (plus, life is too short to wear uncomfortable shoes). And grossly overweight women look even more so. But hey, to each his (or her) own.
We must of been on the same train of thought @syz, I was just about to post the link to the Kinky Boots trailer.
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