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Found myself in an interesting conversation this morning in my hotel. I am leading a tour group at the moment and someone was talking about achilles tendon problems. A woman, one of our guests, spoke up and said, matter of factly 'Men can't do this of course, but women can wear heels to ease the strain on the tendon." To which I replied, just as matter of factly: "Men can do that." She gave a start and spluttered, "Well ... I ... I ... suppose they could ..." I left it at that.

I love the aesthetics and lines of a 12cm stiletto - I would say that is the perfect height visually speaking although I am not practiced anywhere near enough to walk gracefully in such heels. For me the perfect height for walking is 8 to 10cm

Platforms never enter into my thinking as I really don’t like them, but I certainly agree with those general definitions of low, medium and high heels. Four inches I have seen described as “fashion height”. I can understand heels over four inches being described as ultra high. Even during periods were high heels were much in vogue, five inches (or 12cm) were not every day wear for even high heel aficionados, but were more like dressy evening wear - up and beyond the high heels that might be worn to the office. They were always a much smaller percentage of heels and perhaps deserve their own category.

That's why several of us talk about rise (heel - platform) instead of just heel hieght. My sweet spot is 3.75 in to 4.5 in rise, but it has become increasing hard to find heels in this range. So I now have some 3.5 inch heels.