Monday, February 18th 2008
Walking in High Heels 101

If you have any tips on how to walk in high heels, would you leave it in a comment here?  I don’t have a problem with them myself, but I can’t figure out how to describe it to someone who does, and I’m writing a scene that needs just such a conversation. (you’re writing whaa? who writes stuff like that?!  yeah. that’d be me.) 

Soooo, how would you tell someone how to walk in heels? 

1 Comment on “Walking in High Heels 101”

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Charlotte Kalafut
February 24th, 2008
1:56 am

My pot-head mother gave me heels when I was only in 4th grade. I mean huge 2 1/2 heals. Just to piss off my her mother-in-law. When I told my grandmother that, but that I loved them and didn’t want to take them off, she gave me the following advice:

Okay she said, you always want take steps half the size you normally do. Imagine a line on the ground and walk on that. It will keep your feet directly under your body and help with balance.
Always be sure you the balls of your feet hit the ground first (she had to touch my feet to show me). If the heel are hitting the ground first, my steps are too big.
Stand taller and prouder than normal. Woman wearing heels should be confident and sure of themselves.
And above all else I had to promise her not to swing my hips.

Charlotte

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