Platforms! I know I will regret asking this.

pauline

pauline

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I so know that I am going to regret asking this one...Platforms receive a lot of interest here I think more than normal court shoes.


  • Is it because they can be higher than normal stilettos ?
  • Easier to walk in because of chunky heels?,
  • A little nostalgia as they were you first high heel?

I can remember the publicity given when ladies fell off their platforms sometime with devastating consequence, broken or sprained ankles etc..:horny:

This is only a personal view but I did not think ladies walked with just the same ellegance with platforms compared to stilettos heels.:o
 
For me, it's the shape of the shoe - there's more to it. I'm not crazy about my feet, so I'm not crazy about strappy stilettos and I rather like the fact that a really sexy pair of platforms will hide my tootsies. I also have long feet for my height and very thin legs, which makes me paranoid....so if I'm wearing platforms - it just looks like the shoes are big, rather than my feet. Does that make sense?

There's also the aspect that us little'uns can get more height without too much discomfort, because the platform sole offsets the heel somewhat. The heels are also chunkier, and thus easier to walk on than spindly stilettos.

It's also the fact that I'm nuts about the periods of time when they became fashionable - i.e the Forties and Seventies so I just love to look at them.

For me, there's nothing more uncomfortable than spindly heels and thin soles - that kills my feet.

Liz
 
Platforms are usually easier to walk in - depending on height that is. When they are rediculously high they are just as hazardous as mega stilletos.
However, if a maker really makes the soles, etc and designing them to be platform its a lot different than when someone just adds another few layer to a stacked heel and callls it a day. And that's when someone falls over.

On a platform pump, the squarer heel is typcailly more stable and if you are going for platform pumps, having the toe bed on a platform as well as the heel lets you more stable-y have the height as opposed to a flat shoe with a high stilleto. when Jonathan did the shoe workshop i think stillettos came up and the key was that if it was a well balanced shoe they work but if not they don't. (and IMHO even so i think thre is a limit to how high one can be)

For me I have an anomaly (i won't use the word disability). I have zero depth perception and permanent double vision with a laterel tilt. Platform shoes protect my toes better. even in an open toe platform pump, the front of the platform hits a step or the edge of a door before my tie does. It has worked well for me.
 
I find platforms help my hip/back bone problem thingy. One of the MANY things that are wrong with my crazy spine is that it's crooked so one side of me if higher than the other which then hurts my hip and makes me walk unbalanced. Although I can wear heels for short periods, platforms and wedge style shoes are the only shoes that stop my back/hip/leg hurt.
Platforms take the pain away and look cool at the same time!:D

Lei
 
I'm sure I read somewhere that we are not at our best spinally (? - you know what I mean) with entirely flat shoes, and that a heel of around an inch is best. Sort of OT but I just remembered that. Anyone know if that's correct?

I can't walk in skinny heels to save my life regardless of the heel height (although I do try for vanities sake!), but platforms are fine for me too so maybe the chunkier thing is what does it.

If I remember rightly the Vivienne Westwood shoes that Ms.Campbell came a cropper were something like 12" high! I wouldn't be able to get across the room in them I'm sure.. let alone strut down a catwalk!

Infact I googled for them and they are indeed a foot high:


(picture from national geographic.com)
 
Harriet , those are platforms to the extreme could not imagine what it would be like to just stand up in them and as you say walk a step or two, it must be like walking on stilts which I never could do either.

These are what I am trying to toggling around on at the moment... the dreaded skinny heels
heels.jpg


I had the impression that platforms were harder to walk in, what a mistake apparently.
 
I'm wearing original 1950's stilettos with skinny heels on Sunday to the vintage fair with seamed stockings so will let you know how my back gets on with them!

Lei
 
Impressed " skinny" yes and seams, especially after what you just said.
I hope you do not have any problems with it, also you sell a lot.
 
all of the above...actually l think the 2nd and third are thecase for me...
platform wedges are my fave...are sooooeasy to walk in without any pressure on the front of your calves, abck of them, or instep mostly is cushioned..if you are lcuky enought to ahve an instep anymore...Q!!

the thrid is that the heel can be higher and soemhow better balanced becos of the platform....those above look like vivienne westwood ones...and the difficulty with them is the weight, not the height, if not solid or alighter material, she wouldnt have toppled!!

lets face it higher the heels, longer the leg appears, hense slimmer!!LOL
 
What do you mean Sara if you are lucky enough to have an instep anymore?:puzzled:
Everyone one I know except my sis and mum has high arches!

Lei
 
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