Put your HIGH HEELS on! (Intro-I)

I’ve always wondered why high heels were sexy. Why a very normal woman can turn into a sexy one once just putting on her high heels? Why high heels are for women only not for men as well (regardless the fact that many things are categorized for women only beside the high heels). Why a lady’s attitude, feelings or even confidence can be affected by the high heels she’s putting on?

Contrary to writers’ passion for stretching their points of views into the greatest number of words and longest statements, I would like to make a long list of questions short and ask:

 

“What’s the secret behind high heels?”

 

 

As my usual research sniffing instinct, that I can barely fight at many times, I couldn’t hold my hands from googling “High Heels” and get to know everything about them. You might think I have plenty of free time to get to the idea of googling “High Heels”, yet, what you don’t know is that this is only one of a million thoughts that I fight against googling them. I just have to surrender to one of the thoughts attracting magnets, pulling me towards any article, book, video or person mentioning their topic. I started searching about the “High Heels” as if I’m searching to find any facts about a guy I’m dying to date!

And then, PUFF, I was astonishingly surprised from the amount of information I found about my desired prey.

First of all, when I facebooked it, I found hundreds of “High Heels” pages, groups and communities. No wonder that most of them were really a channel of marketing for high heels products, which is the normal. On the other hand, the outrageous, was finding a page called “Networking in high heels”; which the premier women-only networking community striving to give women at all levels of business the connections, resources, and expertise that will increase success and boost profitability….any thoughts?

Ok. Another trial, with something less outrageous? “High on Heels” is a unique collective of outrageously talented female artists providing tailored event packages around the world. DJs, vocalists, musicians and performers; High on Heels is the all-female line-up taking the events world by storm. Established in 2002! Never heard of them, honestly, but they seem interesting.

Another page’s objective was providing frequent beauty and health advice for women, that had nothing to do with high heels.

Some pages were not in English or Arabic language, that I found it hard to understand what they’re purposing and found myself too lost to think of a way to get to understand this language, as there are definitely ways for so.

Despite the many many face book pages my search succeeded to hunt, I was pretty more interested to know about the history of the High Heels.

It wasn’t of great surprise that all the history I could read about the high heels indicates that heels in general and the extent of their height, refer to a certain position or social level of the person putting them on.

Most of the lower class in ancient Egypt walked barefoot, but figures on murals dating from 3500 B.C. depict an early version of shoes worn mostly by the higher classes. These were leather pieces held together with lacing that was often arranged to look like the ankh symbol, which represents life.

There are also some depictions of both upper-class males and females wearing heels, probably for ceremonial purposes.

Egyptian butchers also wore heels, to help them walk above the blood of dead beasts.

In ancient Greece and Rome, platform sandals called ‘Kothorni’, later known as buskins in the Renaissance, were shoes with high wood or cork soles that were popular particularly among actors who would wear shoes of different heights to indicate varying social status or importance of characters. In ancient Rome, the sex trade was legal, and female prostitutes were readily identified by their high heels.

Regardless of the prostitute thing just mentioned, but yeah actually, I’ve never seen a prostitute putting on ,for example, flat shoes or snickers! They’re usually represented by the media, in high heels, and good luck goes to those who catch one with red high heels. Except may be for some porn story based movies, as some of my friends revealed.

But anyway, a prostitute needs to be sexy, and high heels was one of her tools, so that gets us back to our question of why high heels are sexy?

 This question can have many different answers. Some would see it physical; in the shape of legs in high heels, or the moves of the body when walking in high heels, etc. Others might see the psychic side of it; the balanced steps taken when putting them on, or the statue reflected and perceived.  Fortunately, this is not what I’m talking about in this book.

For me, I see ‘high heels’ sexy as a way of living as much as a way of dressing, once we look behind the materialistic side and switch on our mind’s eyes to see the philosophical side.