{"id":45971,"date":"2014-10-16T06:36:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/on-the-origin-resurgence-and-persistence-of-high-heels.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:02:30","slug":"on-the-origin-resurgence-and-persistence-of-high-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/on-the-origin-resurgence-and-persistence-of-high-heels.html","title":{"rendered":"On the origin, resurgence, and persistence of high heels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, if a woman wants to wear heels for some special dress-up occasion &#8212; well, I sometimes wear ties, too, so a bit of discomfort for a limited period of time is just part of life.<\/p>\n<p>(Back in my youth (since that youth included the 70s), I did have some formal shoes with maybe an inch, inch-plus heel. It never bothered me all that much, but I also only wore them on select occasions.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s the &quot;All Heels, All the Time&quot; fashion statement that just doesn&#39;t make sense to me. Heels are uncomfortable, can cause injury and long-term pain, and on some surfaces are just plain unsafe, but they keep being the &quot;standard&quot; for women, for whatever reason. If that standard were to vanish overnight, I would shed no tears.<\/p>\n<p>When <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103328827291075446110\" oid=\"103328827291075446110\">Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span>  broke her ankle a few years back, she ended up not being able to wear heels for quite a long time. And y&#39;know what? Didn&#39;t bother me a bit, or make her any less sexy in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> has eschewed heels so far. I hope she keeps that up.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, fun article about some of the reasons for heels becoming a fashion item (again and again).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why we still haven&#39;t killed off the high heel <a href=\"http:\/\/trib.al\/DO7Fn2x\">http:\/\/trib.al\/DO7Fn2x<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/104903796944242132513\/albums\/6070650741377583825\/6070650741035061186'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-nI01d3p-io0\/VD9Ir27bT8I\/AAAAAAAAOZU\/OrrikJGlZnw\/803-18b1bdaa8a51f1cd90fa9f72fdf3f296.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/jPSikj7PkGv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, if a woman wants to wear heels for some special dress-up occasion &#8212; well, I sometimes wear ties, too, so a bit of discomfort for a limited period of time is just part of life. (Back in my youth (since that youth included the 70s), I did have some formal shoes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/on-the-origin-resurgence-and-persistence-of-high-heels.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the origin, resurgence, and persistence of high heels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-clothing-and-fashion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/803-18b1bdaa8a51f1cd90fa9f72fdf3f296.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4446,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/02\/vanilla_pepsi.html","url_meta":{"origin":45971,"position":0},"title":"Vanilla Pepsi","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Sep-03 3:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sucks. 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