Tolerating pain in the name of fashion. Why do women wear shoes that hurt, instead of ones that don’t?
Posted: October 11th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Tux & Gown & Jeans | Tags: don't, fashion, hurt, instead, name, ones, pain, shoes, Tolerating, Wear, women | 10 Comments »I seem them after the club, walking BAREFOOT with their shoes in the hands because they hurt so bad.
I have yet to see a guy walking barefoot after the club on the dirty ground where people spit, pee, puke, etc… because his SHOES hurt! (and if anyone has seen this, i don’t wanna hear it, its one in a billion)
Why do expensive painful shoes make women happier than wearing comfortable ones?
Diab: Women justify the pain because of the look? Comfortable shoes are ugly?
Adam’s wife: That is not the only answer. Comfy shoes look good too. Discomfort comes at the cost of trying to fit yourself into something that is foreign to your body… trying to portray an image that you are not.
Spanx: You are irritating. If you want to argue my point go for it, if you want to spew random crap that isn’t even on topic than go post somewhere else.
cause they look damn good.
Its because they’re buying crappy, cheap, ill-fitting Pay Less shoes made in China.
I never saw European women wearing such crappy shoes (or poor quality clothing). They wouldn’t be caught dead looking like that (you NEVER see European women replacing their heels with tennis shoes after work). It just isn’t done (it looks perfectly ridiculous, that’s why).
Good shoes are expensive but they’re an investment and well worth the expenditure..
Cause they look good, thats the only answer.
That’s one thing I’ve never done. I know I only have one pair of feet. I had this friend when I was younger that wore heels one size too small. Her feet were a size 9 and she crammed them into 8s. She said she didn’t want people to think she had big “clown” feet. Her toes were permanently curled. Some people think small feet are dainty and feminine. I’d rather be able to walk in comfortable shoes. No one considers a guy to be less masculine if he has large feet.
I have to admit, this does confuse me too. On the one hand, women *insist* that they don’t wear the clothes they wear to attract attention, they genuinely like what they’re wearing and it’s comfortable, they’re wearing it for “themselves”, apparently. But then they wear heels and extremely uncomfortable shoes (sacrificing comfort and practicability for looks) and I see women wearing tiny skirts in painfully cold weather. How can they possibly be wearing those things for themselves? It must be unbearable.
Makes… no… sense.
Because for many women being fashionable is more important than being comfortable. This reached probably its most extreme form in China, where footbinding was fashionable among women who could afford to be unable to walk without support (it was a status symbol, since peasant women who had to toil in the fields could not have bound feet).
Comfy shoes may look good, but they cannot reach the extreme of glamour of stilleto heels.
For the sake of fashion. It is stupid, isn’t it?
Unfortunately we all fall victim to it. And no one dates girls who wear orthopaedic shoes to clubs. We have to stick to uniforms.
And the uniforms worn to a club are micro minis and high heels.
Have you heard of “no pain, no gain”?
Most women who wear heels almost everyday are already numb to the pain these killer shoes bring.
I have no idea.
Cheap shoes can be just as painful though.
I cannot explain my desire to wear heels I can’t walk in or shoes that make my feet bleed. I can’t explain why shoe companies don’t make them more comfortable. It then becomes a competition. When I look at a woman walking around central london in stilettos at work, I think ‘wow’. I can’t explain in.
Nor can I explain the women who have toes removed so their feet fit into designer shoes.
Actually they don’t hurt because I don’t wear them that often.