Why Men Don’t Wear High Heels
They Are Happy with Their Height (Unless They Are Not): While generally not averse to having a thicker sole on their shoes (generally for more comfort than any additional height that would be acquired), wearing heeled shoes outside of a cowboy boot is not the norm.
It’s More Fun to Be Comfortable: Would you rather go out for a night on the town and just go with flow, seeing how things progress without a worry in the world, or would you like to pry your feet into a tight pair of shoes with high heels to raise up your perceived height. Men are well versed in wanting to be at eye level with those around them (or even better, looking down on them) but they are not willing to feel hobbled for the added height (5′ 10″ is close enough to 6″ dammit).
The Wonders of a Cowboy Boot: We’re not saying that men do not wear heels, rather that when they do it is in a more discreet manor than a stiletto can ever achieve. Along with the rise of country music into the mainstream over the last five years, showing your inner redneck is not such an uncommon thing to see anymore.
Men Don’t Look at Fashion Magazines to Decide What to Wear: When was the last time you talked to a guy who said that he wanted to get a shirt in that season’s colors? Yeah, probably not too many times. Same idea goes for the heeled shoes as they are largely considered to be a fashion accessory that is either not masculine enough or the heels do not match their style. Either way, it’s a no go.
Here is what wikipedia have to say about men in high heels:
Elizabeth Semmelhack, curator for the Bata Shoe Museum, traces the high heel to male horse-riding warriors in the Middle East who used high heels for functionality, because they help hold the rider’s foot in stirrups. She states that the earliest high heel she has seen is depicted on a 9th-century CE ceramic bowl from Persia.
Since the late 18th century, men’s shoes have had primarily low heels. A notable exception is cowboy boots, which continue to sport a taller riding heel. The two-inch Cuban heel features in many styles of men’s boot but was popularised by Beatle boots, famously worn by the English rock group The Beatles, which saw the reintroduction of heels for men.[13] Winklepicker boots also usually feature a Cuban heel. There was also a brief resurgence in higher-heeled shoes for men in the 1970s (in Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta’s character wears a Cuban heel in the opening sequence). The singer Prince is known to wear high heels, as well as Elton John. Bands such as Mötley Crüe and Sigue Sigue Sputnik predominantly wore high heels during the 1980s. Current well-known male heel wearers include Prince, Justin Tranter, lead singer of Semi Precious Weapons, and Bill Kaulitz, the lead singer of Tokio Hotel.
Why did men stop wearing high heels?
For generations they have signified femininity and glamour – but a pair of high heels was once an essential accessory for men.
Beautiful, provocative, sexy – high heels may be all these things and more, but even their most ardent fans wouldn’t claim they were practical.
They’re no good for hiking or driving. They get stuck in things. Women in heels are advised to stay off the grass – and also ice, cobbled streets and posh floors.
And high heels don’t tend to be very comfortable. It is almost as though they just weren’t designed for walking in.
Originally, they weren’t.
Source: BBC
Here is a great video of men dancing in high heels:
What do you think about men wearing high heels?
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Men do wear high heeled 6 in. heel cowboy boots. Nuthin is more comfortable. Walk carefully, though. And don’t try to run. Really hot to wear on ice and snow.
Men wearing heels is nothing new, a pity you ddint provide a picture of different styles that really suit men. Heeled footwear is not always uncomfortable. Lack of comfort comes from one design being available in different sizes, and are chosen for their style rather than their fit. If shoes dont fit well, they will become uncomfortable. Men suit block heels better than stilettos, howver there is also the asthetics of heels. Overwight individuals do not tend to suit heels, where as light weight slim build can carry off teh look and wear heels well. One day heeled foot wear wil be available in men shoe shops, however they will need to start making larger sizes as well as men tend to have larger feet
I think this article missed the main reason that women wear high heels. It is not to look taller, even tall women wear heels. The main reason is to make their legs look sexier something most men have no desire to do.
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This question is a misnomer and/or a misunderstanding, for there are and have been men wearing high heels for quite sometime, even the thinly spiked and stilettos. As more men and women realize what they wear is the matter for personal choice and not something others should control, the numbers of men in heels will increase publicly.
For sometime, influential socialites have made it sound like heels were too impractical for men to wear. However with their desire to wear heels, many men have found this to be less than correct and continue to choose high heels as part of their male attire. The stereotypes that have been socially put in place to control how people should choose their personal appearance doesn’t portray the way each person thinks.
These social directives have misled attitudes that will require social adjustments to accurately understand and properly act upon how people actually think. The personal agency to choose one’s own adornments is one of the important principles each of us have in our individual stewardships. It is up to us, who know our own feelings and desires, as to how much we let others control our decisions when they want to impose their will upon our agency.
I’d be willing to wager that major percentages of the stiletto heels sold were bought by men, who wear their heels in secret, in disguise, or under the cover of adequately long boot-cut jeans. Being labeled or seen as other than heterosexual or as female wannabes deters many men from being socially open to wearing high heels with their shirt and jeans outfits. Despite the social view and attitude, all high heels are another styling of footwear to be worn by those who desire to use their accent as their self-expression from who they are. Society has abused our natural and personal right to exercise this individual agency by dictating what we should wear to comply with the social ideals they compiled and then stereotyped.