Aiming High - Practicing in Heels

[Puffer]

Some interesting discussion about these different heel heights and wearability.   But I'm confused - mlroseplant says that Hot Chicks in size 40 have a measured 13.7cm heel, but higherheels says that hers (apparently also size 40) measure 12.7cm, which sounds a little low.   Which is right, please?

Nearly 30 years ago, I had a GF who had not been a regular wearer of significantly high heels and had probably not gone above about 3.5" (9cm).   She was not a particularly nimble or athletic person either.  But she was perfectly willing to go higher and was soon wearing 4 - 4.5" stiletto heels (UK 7 = Eu40) regularly - and when she acquired a pair of 5.5" (14cm) courts she had little difficulty in wearing them from the outset (unless on very slippery/uneven ground, understandably).   Alas, the relationship did not last but the memory of her high stilettos did!

[Shyheels]

That would be extremely unusual. I can only think that the bar to success in 14cm was set quite low - simply being able to walk without falling - or that there was a platform involved somewhere. Or that she is or was a ballet dancer.

Hot Chicks at 13cm are famously difficult to master even by very experienced high heel wearers - so much so that Louboutin stopped making them. @higherheels is the only person with whom I’ve had any contact who feels confident walking in them, at least to go out for dinner. And I have a sense that she sets the bar pretty high and even then she finds the need to work hard and practice.

i have a couple of friends who are serious high heel aficionados and their limit is 12cm, and one of them has quite a collection of Louboutins too. But nothing over 12cm. So I’m just finding it hard to picture someone slipping on a pair of 14cm court shoes and striding out of the shop unless there is some very unusual circumstance 

Edited 1 hour ago by Shyheels

[mlroseplant]

1 hour ago, Puffer said:

Some interesting discussion about these different heel heights and wearability.   But I'm confused - mlroseplant says that Hot Chicks in size 40 have a measured 13.7cm heel, but higherheels says that hers (apparently also size 40) measure 12.7cm, which sounds a little low.   Which is right, please?

Higherheels wears size 37. I am the one who wears size 40.