Eleven inches above the ground
It will be unhealthy, it will hurt, and it will be absolutely superfluous too. And that's why I want her. I am old enough to make up for the youthful sins that I have never done. One day I just want to jiggle like Marilyn Monroe, step like Greta Garbo and perform like Madonna. Just once? I suspect, I will not make it much more often.
In the hand the shoe is already good. Black with straps. The poison green has something too. And the red anyway. Flat was yesterday, now I want to go up high. From six centimeters, a paragraph is considered high. At ten centimeters, they are called high heels. So then. I take off the left sneaker, a Trial - and now with the black. It's okay, at least sitting down. I turn and turn this unfamiliar part at the end of my leg and find myself very beautiful. So get up. My right sneaker gives me a hold. So I hopped to a mirror and see: a gazelle that trembles on one leg.
The gazelle removes the alien sneaker and slips into the second hoof. I've seen enough styling shows to know how to override the natural way of walking: put one hand on your hip, put one foot in front of the other, stare straight ahead. Done. All hocks are still in place.
High heels make elegant and erotic
"He is fine," says the saleswoman. She is right. My feet have never been so elegant and erotic at the highest level. Why have not I treated myself with such hoes much earlier? It had nothing to do with reason. I was never the type of diva, and as a fanciful feminist I always understood something other than highheels in a woman's arms. What actually? "And how about these here? You can afford it with your beautiful shackles," says the saleswoman.
I take the green, dangerously high shoes and balance through the shop. The weapons work - against me. My wavering is increasing. "Between the heel of a woman and the ground, there is so much room to start with," shoe designer Bernard Figueroa has said. He probably never even ran himself in the things.
The things are not up and running. Or only for short distances. From the taxi to the restaurant. From the table to the toilet. Over the red carpet to the cinema. A round at the opera ball. And from the front door to the bed. In bed they should be great. Really.
The erotic utility is even scientific, well, perhaps not proven, but studied. In 2008, the urologist Maria Angela Cerruto from the University of Verona had women peddling what it takes. It turned out: The posture of the feet in stilettos strengthens the pelvic floor and improves the contractility of the muscles. Step by step, you get great orgasms and prevent incontinence. High heels as health shoes, a steep career.
It is clear that you can not take a crouched posture on high heels. You have to show backbone and throw yourself into position. That looks like self-confidence. And presumably Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Mae West wanted to demonstrate just that. In the 1950s stiletto heels became the trademark of the "naughty girl" type, with Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe flirting with it. Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve favored the high glamorous elegance. Bianca Jagger, Princess Diana, all "Sex and the City" actresses and their fans might be looking in vain for the right man. They have all found the right shoe from the right designer.
High heels are a tightrope walk between reason and pleasure
For some it must be a Louboutin, this is the man who always paints the soles red. For the others, nothing but a real Manolo Blahnik or a killer part of the Malaysian designer Jimmy Choo on the feet. Madonna thinks it's better to wear stilettos than sex. And RuPaul, American actor, singer and drag queen, brings the extravagant luck of tormenting toes to the point: "How tall I am, sweetheart, if you include hair, heels and ego, I hit the ceiling."
Choosing a shoe is a tightrope walk between reason and pleasure. I have decided. For eleven centimeters, in red and only for the home. For the run in the wild I have to practice first. My legs are now giraffe long, my butt bulges 25 percent more outward, because my focus is shifting high-heeled. But instead of being happy, my friend makes fun of my self-chosen helplessness. My friends have given me addresses of orthopedic surgeons, my sister has told me the most common health damage in alphabetical order: joint wear, Achilles tendon shortening, osteoarthritis, toe deformation, shortened calf muscles. So what? I've read that people who are not born with ideally shaped feet like Barbie can shorten their toes with the plastic surgeon, suck off the fat on their ankles, and have their feet designed to match their desired shoe. But I'm not that crazy.
Sometimes I pace, sting and wobble at home on the floor.I listen to David Bowie's song "Put on your red shoes and dance the blues". Then I dream of Cinderella and other fairy tales. One day, reason will prevail. Then I will kick the shoes intolerably and with pleasure into the barrel. Or in the old clothes collection give. And then some girl anywhere in the world will not be able to believe his luck and swing her hips with red high heels on her feet and outgrow her. The shoe must go on.
Fashion spread: High heels fit every style. And at any time of the day.
Cashmere ensemble from Closed, jacket with hood ca. 200 Euro, trousers with drawstring ca. 180 Euro. Sleeping glasses: Daydream. High heels: Versace.
At home: Satin lingerie with integrated underwire bra by Lise Charmel, approx. 70 Euro.
In Fifties style: Check blouse with small puff sleeves by Pepe Jeans, approx. 60 Euro. 7/8 length jeans by Marithé + François Girbaud, ca. 240 Euro.
To jeans: Tunic blouse with little beadwork by Steffen Schraut, about 180 Euro. Used-look jeans from Calvin Klein Jeans, approx. 140 euros.
Evening: Double-breasted with fine gloss of Oui, about 230 euros. Handbag: Picard.
Summer classic: White suit made of satin stretch St. Emile, Blazer about 300 euros, straight trousers with surcharge about 230 euros. Glasses: Ray Ban / Fielmann.
In safari look: Shirt dress by Luisa Cerano, approx. 280 Euro.
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