I LOVE HIGH HEELS !

SOMETIMES I think I must have been born in heels. I couldn’t imagine life without them – what a bleak thing that would be.Every fashionista and sensible woman knows that high heels make your legs look thinner and longer.I have always been a high-heel kinda girl. They are not just a fashion statement – they’re a leg-shape and height thing. I know that if I want to feel elegant in a knee-length skirt, a heel is essential.

I blame it on my grandmother. She was a very glamorous fashion designer who had immaculate nails, wonderfully styled hair – and she wore six inch heels every day.When I was a little girl I’d sneak up to her bedroom when no-one was looking, and peek inside her wardrobe, which was packed full of evening gowns, fur coats and fabulous, glorious shoes. There was every style from pretty party shoes to delicate evening sandals. I couldn’t wait to grow up so I could get to wear them too.

I know if Granny could see me now, she’d be proud. I love wearing stilettos and, the higher, the better. But I had to learn how to walk in them, it didn’t happen overnight.As a teenager I wobbled around in high black stilettos, looking like a new-born foal learning to take its first faltering steps, but now I’m like a well-trained racehorse.

Even in towering six-inchers I can run out and hail a cab – don’t knock it, it’s a real skill.I can race up Grafton Street at any time of day (or night) at full pelt. And I can salsa all night long. On the downside, however, I have destroyed my feet completely, but I don’t care.


 What do you really need your feet for anyway? It’s not like you’d ever overhear a bloke say: ‘Did you see the toes on your one?’ Men love women in heels and they find it incredibly sexy to see a woman wearing them – it’s something about the way that they make her walk.

Who could forget Marilyn Monroe teetering on those Ferragamo heels as she ran to catch the departing train in Some like It Hot, as Jack Lemmon proclaimed: ‘Look how she moves. It’s like Jell-O on springs.’ Me, personally I love a stiletto. Take Victoria Beckham, Kylie and Sarah Jessica Parker, women who haven’t been blessed in the height department but who can hold a room in thrall to their sex appeal. Flats on these ladies? It just wouldn’t look right.

And yes, okay, there is the theory espoused by some that by wearing spike heels, women become vulnerable. They cannot run – or even walk very fast – and are, therefore, somewhat immobile when it comes to getting away from a predator.But such women, lest you forget, are armed with a very sharp and dangerous weapon. Menfolk – I have a sharp, often steel stiletto and I warn you, I’m not afraid to use it.

There is also another band of stiletto-haters. They include the chiropractors, the chiropodists, the protectors of fine wooden floors, and my mother. These well-meaning folk lobby against stiletto lovers, such as myself, reminding me that they cause corns, bunions, hammer-toes, enlarged joints and deformed spines.

And yes, I have known some of these afflictions in my time but please, when moving like ‘Jell-O on springs’.I don’t intend being brought down to earth anytime soon.

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."

Marilyn Monroe

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