Shoes, shoes… the myth about women and shoes

I have recently bought myself 2 pairs of Nine West shoes. Surprisingly it didn’t dent my wallet too much, but during the Robinson’s great race sale, I fell in love with shoes again. Last year and only last year which I started buying – probably about 6 pairs, inclusive with 1 pair of Miss Sixty boots, 2 pairs of black Miss Sixty killer heels, 1 pair of Adidas sneakers, 1 pair of Karen Millen heels and a pair a Havaiana’s slippers. Before this, I have thought that while shoes are necessary I never understood why women had to have 60 pairs of shoes in their wardrobe until recently. While the shoe obsession lives on for many women, I now began to understand and am quite afraid that I’m catching up to it.

Is it the fact that how our society has brought us to think that a pair of heels can give you that extra inch of  confidence when you wear a pair of heels, determines how one carries themselves. For instance, movies like ‘Devils Wears Prada’ or  ‘New in Town’, a women who is tom-boyish is thought of as being too comfortable but not necessary good enough to take on a boardroom meeting? I don’t know, quite honestly i do ponder on it because the instant I wear heels, I get noticed. Not in a provocative way, but in a more approval manner. I’m the type of girl who likes to wear sneakers and slippers, I have lots of them but not many heels as I have many times fell and broke my shoes. In a way, I’m a klutz in 4 inches, but time and again I will try for the sake of weddings, and it gets better each time provided my bf holds my hand so that I don’t fall and my skirts go all over the place.

But somehow… and  I remember the time when I first wore my black killer heels last year, I felt taller (obviously) but in a way I felt confident, and it felt naively enough that I could take on the world. It’s a strange feeling, but one that I felt like I was able to be in control for the minute second – a secretary bitch of sort, and don’t mess with me – sort of feeling. If it makes any sense at all for those guys out there, perhaps its something like when you drive a Subaru WRX or Evo 8 – a mean machine yet you feel giddy all over because of the power in it. It’s something like that, its a mad thing. Materialistic? Definitely! It’s a luxury, and one that women can afford to spend hence the idea of 30 pairs of shoes that they can whip out anytime to take on the world. Funny how shoes can makes us feel.

I mean even female comic characters wears nice boots…

To be honest, I have a few black pairs of heels