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Ok, it should be common enough knowledge that elevated heels on footwear may hurt one's feet, make one walk funny, add noises to the progress, and of course add to bodily height.
What should be added to the cautionary list is banging your head on stuff, jamming knees under steering wheels and tables and suddenly being unable to reach items on the floor and low shelves. Thank you so much Rocket Dog.
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Banging heads
If you are banging your head on things when you wear heels, you are probably too tall to need them! I find they suit me just fine! A four-inch heel is a nice height for me, although I occasionally like to wear high ones.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
You're Never Too Tall
For a lovely pair of four-inch heels!
Never Say Never
As my mother used to say. In this case though, if you can't clear the overhead, it may fit.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
So true...
While I mostly have to worry about low ceiling fans, my favorite pair of heels put me at 6’5... It doesn’t bother me them making me that tall, it’s just that I love how they make my legs (already 3ft long) look so much longer lol.
I know I’m weird. The fact that I’m trans is probably one of the more normal things about me.
I am really happy for my
I am really happy for my friends, both trans and cis, who love wearing high heels. All power to y'all!
But... man, I wish the fashion industry would just leave them behind. I know men wore them first, as a dominance (taller) thing, but I can't shake this idea that they make the wearers basically hobbled; unable to run away, posed unnaturally to make their bums look nicer for the viewer.... it just seems like such a weird thing to encourage.
But also, again, I totes understand enjoying them as a wearer. I even wear them once in a while if feeling a particular kind of sexy, and I Love watching my friends enjoy them.
I love wearing heels but...
I love wearing heels but I think it’s important to think about the affect on other people. Height has a very strong perceptual relationship with power.
Average height of a UK female is 5’ 3” or 162cm so for a woman of average or below average height, wearing heels is perceptually giving her more power, placing her more on a level with males (average height 5’ 9” or 175 cm).
When a male of average or above average height crossdresses, their natural height makes them appear far more powerful than a normal woman, unnaturally so, to the point of scariness. Many people are scared of obvious crossdressers and I believe that wearing high heels is a major contributor to this feeling.
If we want to appear like women, we must try our best to reduce our perceptual difference in power, not increase it.
I love wearing heels, but only in private.
Perceptions
I am a woman, and I'll not reduce my appearance for anybody. WYSIWYG. Like it or lump it. I wear what I wear because I want to wear it. And I CAN! I spent too many years wearing a uniform, or other quasi-uniforms because it was required for a job. Now nobody gets to tell me what I wear! I'm not going to dress down to avoid hurting some other person's fragile selfimage.
Not that I've ever been concerned about dressing down. I used to be a cop! No longer one now, nor have I been for years. But I both open and conceal carry. I mainly open carry now because when they say "conceal" carry, they mean "CONCEAL". When doing CC, if anything, and I do mean Anything should show at any time, it violates your CC permit. Easier to open carry and not have to worry about it.
And I don't carry any little pink-gripped "lady's" pistol. I carry a S&W .40 M & P semiauto. So that's me: Second Amendment and High Heels! Want to talk to me about passing (or not)? Game On!
FWIW: At a guess, I'd say the average female in the US is probably closer to 5' 7" (170 cm). Average for men is probably a couple of inches taller. Again, guesstimates only.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Average height
Real statistics clearly give different results:
United States
male: 175.7 cm (5 ft 9 in)
female: 161.8 cm (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country (from US Dept. of Health and Human Services; et al. (August 2016). "Anthropometric Reference Data for Children and Adults: United States, 2011–2014" (PDF). National Health Statistics Reports. 11.)
Why bless yor little pea-pickin' heart!
Them da__yankees* must be screwing up the averages. I'm 5' 8" and very much the norm here in the south central part of the US. More first-hand (i.e. what I see around me) field research suggests that most late teen guys are my height or taller, and they don't wear heels. (Most of them anyway.) My late fiancee was a couple of inches taller than me and height-wise she didn't stand out in a crowd.
Most second-hand skirts and dresses on me are knee-length or longer. Yet the same skirts and dresses when worn by college-age girls are at least several inches above the knee. So it would appear that at least their legs are longer than mine.
More first-hand field research suggests my torso is shorter than many of the women around me, based on what I have to buy in terms of clothing.
So it's gotta be those da__yankee* girls pulling down the averages!!
* Language "experts" insist that "da__yankees" is not a hyphenated word. So I no longer use the hyphen. Looks strange to me but gotta folllow the rules.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Heights
It is true that Americans residing in the south-central group of states: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Misissippi, Alabama and Tennessee, average an inch or two taller than the rest of the country. Even more interesting is that archaeological evidence suggests that this area had taller people living there even before the Europeans arrived. No one really knows why. Californians are also slightly taller than people from neighboring states.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
As a short-arse
of (stretches up) usually all of 5 ft 6 tall, I'm not going to tower over many people, even "height enhanced", but used to ducking under the tailgate to get the shopping, and only pulling the garage door 3/4 up for so many years, I have had to re-learn a few habits. Mm, yes, cupboard doors too. And the bathroom cabinet.
"Reach for the sun."