High heels; they can cause a woman to feel powerful, confident, sexy, and at the end of the day painfully sore. Who exactly are the type of women that decide to sacrifice their feet and good chunk of change on these fashionable shoes and where do they come from? When I think of high heels I immediately start to think of shows like Gossip Girl and Sex in the City where women are depicted to be surrounded by other women wearing heels that look so beautiful but so uncomfortably high everywhere from the grocery store to the red carpet. They're the type of people in the fashion business who own a closet just for their shoes and can easily spend hundreds of dollars on the perfect high heel.
What's interesting, though, is that the fashion website, GILT, recently conducted research to figure out if this perception of New York women having the highest heels is accurate and it turns out I was completely wrong. New York buyers weren't even in the top list of states wearing the highest heels. In Puerto Rico, Florida, Nevada, and Arkansas high heel hight average out at 2.36-2.9 inches tall among buyers. What's curious is that the heel hight of women in New York was in the median percentile among states in the U.S. average in at 2.08-2.14 inches tall. Why do you think women from Puerto Rico, Florida, Nevada, and Arkansas are wearing the highest heels on average in the United States and Kansas, Nebraska, and Maine have the lowest heel hight?
Reference: http://tech.gilt.com/post/101291680119/stilettos-by-state-a-gilt-infographic-while
This is fascinating! I have no idea why--except to think that this may be tied to a complicated matrix of class and feminist awareness. I know I'm only too happy to live here, where you rarely see women in high heels (let alone stilettos). I can't walk in the things!
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