Okay, when can women give up wearing high heel shoes?

[Hekate]

94. All shoe-wearing cultures try them at one time or another for both sexes, & not for muddy streets

They grant height for social stature. They elongate the calf & ankle in a manner deemed graceful across centuries, and again, for both sexes. Gentlemen in knee breeches with lace at their sleeves would get an appreciative eye for having “a well-turned leg.”

Sometimes shoes are a sexual fetish — go figure, but I have to say the movie Kinky Boots was hilarious.

They are a fashion accessory I’ve never been able to wear in comfort, owing to the innate structure of my feet (long, high arches), but they “complete” certain outfits. Now that I’m old I no longer care, but I also live in jeans and sandals.

In much younger days my very tall sis came to visit & we went out to dinner at the mall. She wore some 3” heels and it was grand to watch male heads turn all the way the length of the mall as she sashayed through.

Melania is a problem unto herself. I am utterly glad she is tottering along toward the dustbin of history.