How high is high enough?
November 07, 2008 :: Posted by - admin :: Category - High Heel Fashion, New Styles and Discontinued
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I hope everyone had a chance to get out and vote. The election has made history, but history is also being made here in the fashion world as well. Now if you have not seen and heard, designers are designing high heels of an monsterous height. Reports are stating that high heels of 5 to 6 inches are in style, with designers coming out with 8 inch high heels for next year. |
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 Photo from estresmodes.com |
With this I have to ask how high is too high? Manolo Blahnik, who is a very well known and respected designer, for over the past 20 years has designed shoes with heels no higher than 5 inches. But Manolo Blahnik has announced that he will be raising his heel height from 5 inches to six. Manolo Blahnik though is not the only one leading this pack. Christian Louboutin recently declared that he will produce the first 8 inch stiletto heel outside the world of fetish. Now the world outside the world of fetish is the key here. These shoes are not anything new. They have been around for a long time, but have always been put off as a “fetish” heel. Now that well known designers are creating them and they have been seen on the fashion runway, they have made the change from being “fetish” to fashion. But why the push? Why are designers starting to design heels of this height? Manolo Blahnik says that 6-inch heels already account for about 30% of his company’s business. |
| Women, instead of rejecting the extreme heels, can’t seem to get enough of them. So the height is pushed up as the designers respond to what women want. Is this true or has fetish become common place? Some have compared high heels to drugs, even stating that wearing them gives such a feeling to some that they want more and the only way to get more is to go higher. I’m not sure if I agree with all of that, but for some men and women it sure seems to be the case. No matter how you look at it though, it is clear that fetish is no longer fetish but has become mainstream. The question though we have to ask is will this trend keep going? And if so how high will it go? Will one day people be walking down the street 8 feet tall? The image to the left is from a site call Estresmodes, and they sell some of the highest heels we have ever seen. The boot in the image is a 100 cm platform thigh high boot. That is a little over 3 feet in height! The average height of a woman is just over 5 foot tall here in the USA. That would make the woman 8 foot tall and feeling bullet proof! Could you picture yourself walking down the street in these? I’m not sure how I would react to be honest. Now I do not think that fashion will ever get to this point, but no one thought that 8 inch heels would ever become fashion, but it has. So where do we draw the line? Where does it stop? The truth is no one knows. I personally believe that it will top out at the 8 or 9 inch mark as anything higher crosses the line from fashion to gaudy, but think about it…walking down the street just once 8 feet tall. What fun as long as you do not fall down.
estresmodes.com is in no way an affiliate of The High Heel Store. They are though the only ones we know of that sell heels of this height. |
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January 4th, 2009 at 11:28 am
wow
January 4th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
That was my thought exactly when I first saw them. I would love to see an image of somebody actually wearing them in public.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
those r high!!!! dont trip…lol
December 11th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
high heels i love that thema.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
…naja..ich mag high heels.:D
und ihr auch ?
I´m from germany..thats funny or?
did you speak german? i know that i canß´t write englisjh speak good but i think you can understand me.:D.:Di like high heels.very good