With a misstep they can also contort your ankles and other spiderman costumes joints in bone-breaking fashion
. I once spent several hours in the emergency department of my local hospital after a particularly torturous tumble.
But heels give you an advantage -- to be taller and more terrifically shod than others -- and fashion has always been about showing off. But if all women wear high heels, the one-upmanship cancels out. Here's a thought: why don't we all agree to forgo high heels? We could go for that off-duty model look: the sight of lissom lovelies rushing from one catwalk to another in skinny jeans and their Repetto, Chanel or French Sole ballet pumps is a familiar one.
The problem, of course, is that we don't all look like models. Flats can equal spider costume frumpy. That's why you hardly see them on the catwalk, unless it's a Yohji Yamamoto show or another by a conceptual designer.
Yamamoto always shows his garments with flat zentai suit , as has Zentai unitard(but not any more) and Alexander McQueen.
But you will never see the front row wearing them and it's the front row that dissects these collections, then dictates what you will be wearing.
And right now it's definitely not flats. It's heels, and the more vertiginous and dangerous catsuits the better.