Do you have a pair of high heels? What kinds of high heels do you like? Nowaday, high heels have become the favorite of most women, because high heels make women more confident. Wearing characteristic high heels, ladies look beautiful, slender and sexy, but not all high heels are suitable for you. When choosing high heels, there are several aspects I consider that we should take into consideration.

Heels

It is well known that the heights of heels are different. How to choose the right height for yourself matters all the time. When trying on a pair of high heels on the shop, you had better walk to and fro to check whether the height of the heels is acceptable. If you can walk naturally as usual and your knees do not hurt, it proves that the height is suitable. Most people think that short and small women should wear relatively higher heels. However, it is mistaken. Experts point out that it is better for the short to wear below 5 centimeters high heels, because their knees can not bear too much pressure. If they really want to wear higher high heels for the pursuit of beauty, they should choose thicker heels.

Toes

Have you ever noticed that the designs of shoe toes are various? Point toe, round toe, slant toe and open toe are of your choices. When choosing high heels, you should know what kinds of occasions you will attend with the high heels. For example, if you are going to an interview, point toe high heels are perfect, as they make you more formal. Provided that you want to buy high heels for daiy wearing, you shall wear open toe high heels. Wearing them, your beautiful toes can be seen.

Materials

High heels can be made of different materials. Leather ones are softer and more comfortable. Most women will have blisters on their heels because the shoes are too tight or the material is too hard. As a result, their feet will hurt because of the improper texture.

Brand

It happens to most women that the heels will be easily broken, or the gel can not glue the heels firmly. To avoid such embarrassment, it is better for you to choose branded high heels, because most branded high heels are of suprior quality.

In a word, when choosing high heels, we should remember that comfort comes first for the sake of your health.

High-heel shoes, which first appeared in Ming Dynasty in the 14th century according to one saying while another insists that it was invented by the tailor from the French royal court in the 15th  century, hold strong attraction for the majority of women, including young and middle-aged ladies, and even some teenage girls. Wearing a pair of high-heel shoes usually makes every step of the wearer more graceful and at the same time increases her charm. Besides, it can also bring some medical advantages.

The arches of the foot, which are formed by the tarsal and metatarsal bones and strengthened by ligaments and tendons, allow the foot to support the weight of the body in the erect posture with the least weight, help to cushion the vibration while walking and protect the vessels and nerves in the sole from being pressed. As high-heel shoes have a similar arched shape, wearing them can preserve the foot arches and redress flat feet.

In order to maintain balance, the high-heel shoes wearer should square the shoulders, flat the belly, and walk with more strength from the calf. Thus, it can help to expand the pleural cavities, strengthen the lung capacity, and tone up the calf and the abdominal muscles. And another theory claims that it can increase the abdominal pressure and thus the wearer can lose weight by wearing high-heel shoes.

Lower limbs varicosity is common with women. Since high-heel shoes upraise the arches of the foot, it is favorable toward boosting the blood circulation. It can not only prevent such a disease, but also help to cure it.

To those women who are relatively short, the helpfulness and effects of high-heel shoes are more immediate and magical. By putting on a pair of high-heel shoes, they can grow tall in a wink which no medicine can make it happen even the TV commercials claim so.

Although wearing high-heel shoes does a lot of good, to walk with them everyday like Victoria Beckham does would not be a smart choice. The shoe with a heel which is too high does not appeal to human mechanics. As the whole weight of body falls on the former part of the sole, and the toes do not bear stress evenly, the wearer is very likely to get sore legs, twist her ankles, or fall down out of carelessness.

In order not to get into the trouble which might be caused by wearing high-heel shoes in an inappropriate way, the following instructions are highly recommended. Firstly, the best time to select a pair of suitable high-heel shoes is 3 to 4 o’clock in the afternoon. When trying the shoes, walk with them for about 10 minutes so that you can find the pair which fits your feet perfectly. For a pair of proper shoes, the height of the heel had better not exceed 5 cm and the heel should not be too slim, otherwise it cannot sustain the body weight stably. Secondly, it is not recommended to wear high-heel shoes every day. Those women who need to walk frequently are suggested wearing high-heel shoes and flat shoes alternatively so as to reduce the weariness of both feet. Thirdly, if possible, soak both feet in hot water for 5 minutes to relax them.

The aulic fashion designers from France invented high-heel shoes in the 15th century. From then on, the heights and widths of the heels have changed now and then. Whereas, there is never a lack of high-heel shoes fanatics since the high-heel shoes are the intimate friends of women, they share the experiences at every stage of life with each other, and the high-heel shoes would never cease to struggle to make a woman look perfect whether she is thin or fat in stature.

High-heel shoes are always a strong temptation to women from the cradle to the grave. And it attributes to the advantages brought by wearing high-heel shoes to women. First and foremost, nearly everybody is thirsty for being taller than the others, and wearing high-heel shoes happens to be able to offset a woman’s defect of height.

Secondly, after a woman puts on a pair of high-heel shoes looking good on her, her body will be heightened, furthermore, her abdomen and hip turn to be more tightly and better lifting. Consequently, the steps she takes become smaller and the posture she has got to be more graceful.

In addition, with the decrease in the range of the steps taken by a woman, the center of her gravity will be set back, correspondingly, an erect bearing comes out and the deep elegance of the woman was born. That’s the very reason why all the ladies are scrambling for the refined high-heel shoes.

Wearing high-heel shoes does well to the full-grown women, for the thenar is arched rather than absolutely even, and it is called the ‘arch of the foot’ medically. The arch of the foot has enough bounce to keep people’s stability when they are on their feet. And the high-heel shoes at certain heights bear functions of protecting and maintaining the arch of the foot. While it is inadvisable to wear the shoes with too high heels. Generally, 2-3 centimeter is the most feasible. If your shoes’ heels are too high and you have to wear them each day, it will be possible to cause the damnification to the thenar muscles and ligaments as well as to do damages to the physical arch of the foot. Besides, too high heels will make your center of gravity so unsteady that it will be easy for you to turn your ankles or even have a fracture of malleolus. Moreover, too high heels make a woman’s center of gravity lean forward, so her toes are all piled into the toe caps. As the time goes by, the toes will turn thick and the calluses and corns will also come into being. At the same time, the ailments, such as arthralgia and neuralgia will stop by at intervals.

‘To be or not to be, that is the question’, this is a classic question asked by Shakespeare many centuries ago. And today women are facing a similar question, that is ‘to wear high-heel shoes or not to wear, that is the question’. Well, here my suggestion is we should try to choose shoes at proper heights. Do not be too greedy; otherwise, your extrinsic beauty will be paid at the cost of your intrinsic health, which is not a cost-efficient deal. Just as the old saying goes, health is a blessing.