Monday, February 18th 2008
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?
1:56 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
6:51 pm
How to walk on heels…
Pretend you are on your tippy toes and do not put any of your weight on one side or the other of your front toe pad (tippy toes) or you will become unbalanced. The majority of your weight will be on the front of the foot. Does that help?
4:51 pm
It’s all about focus! Head up, eyes forward…no, no, don’t put your arms out…you’re not walking a tight rope. Focus on the graceful aspects…OK! OK! You’ve got it…you’ve got it! Oops! Need a hand up?
I remember my first heels for my eighth grade graduation…and I was nearly six feet tall!! Sharon (a fellow Capstone author)