Re: My new shoes. (Help)
Posted: 19 Feb 2017, 11:46
A few tips on ultra-high heels…
First, your foot has a built-in limit on how high a heel it can wear.
Take a paperback book. Put it on the floor, and stand on it, with your heels on the book and your toes on the floor. Then add another book. And another. Sooner or later, you’ll get to a limit where your feet can no longer span the gap between the top of the stack and the floor. That’s your maximum arch.
Note the fact that platform shoes are deceptive. A shoe may have a 7 inch heel, but if it has a 3 inch platform, the arch is just 4 inches -- the difference between the heel and the platform.
You can make a device to aid you in stretching and strengthening your lower legs to accommodate the higher heels. It is a small board, about 3 inches wide, an inch thick and long enough to go from just below your knee to almost the tip of your toes. it is strapped onto your leg at the top, the ankle and across the instep -- this helps your leg to straighten at the ankle. When you’ve grown accustomed to that stretch, you add another strap across the toes to bend them back. Wearing that a couple times a day from 20 to 60 minutes will get those muscles stretched out in a hurry.
One final trick: Get a couple of those caps you find on beer or soda bottles which you need a “church key” to remove. You can use them in two ways. You can use duct tape to fasten them to your heels, with the pointy side against the area of your heel where your weight comes down. Or alternately, you can fasten them right inside your shoe with superglue or a small wood screw. If you’re used to a 3 inch heel and need to move up to a 4 inch, wear them while in the 3 inch heels. The points will make you raise your heels higher in the 3 inch shoes so that wearing the 4 inch heels will become easier. Then, wear them in the 4 inch heels to get in condition for the fives.
Finally -- always use strapped heels. And use tiny padlocks to keep them on several hours a day.
First, your foot has a built-in limit on how high a heel it can wear.
Take a paperback book. Put it on the floor, and stand on it, with your heels on the book and your toes on the floor. Then add another book. And another. Sooner or later, you’ll get to a limit where your feet can no longer span the gap between the top of the stack and the floor. That’s your maximum arch.
Note the fact that platform shoes are deceptive. A shoe may have a 7 inch heel, but if it has a 3 inch platform, the arch is just 4 inches -- the difference between the heel and the platform.
You can make a device to aid you in stretching and strengthening your lower legs to accommodate the higher heels. It is a small board, about 3 inches wide, an inch thick and long enough to go from just below your knee to almost the tip of your toes. it is strapped onto your leg at the top, the ankle and across the instep -- this helps your leg to straighten at the ankle. When you’ve grown accustomed to that stretch, you add another strap across the toes to bend them back. Wearing that a couple times a day from 20 to 60 minutes will get those muscles stretched out in a hurry.
One final trick: Get a couple of those caps you find on beer or soda bottles which you need a “church key” to remove. You can use them in two ways. You can use duct tape to fasten them to your heels, with the pointy side against the area of your heel where your weight comes down. Or alternately, you can fasten them right inside your shoe with superglue or a small wood screw. If you’re used to a 3 inch heel and need to move up to a 4 inch, wear them while in the 3 inch heels. The points will make you raise your heels higher in the 3 inch shoes so that wearing the 4 inch heels will become easier. Then, wear them in the 4 inch heels to get in condition for the fives.
Finally -- always use strapped heels. And use tiny padlocks to keep them on several hours a day.