Heel-lo? Ummm, No.

Japan's Take on the Claw Heel

Can we please speak for a moment, on the lates shoe craze in Japan? It's crazy!!! Just take a look at these things!

For years, I myself have been an an anit-high heel kick. It might be because I can't move past the fact that they are UNCOMFORTABLE!! I don't care who you are, where your're from (what you did as long as you love me?) nooo. But seriously. They're uncomfortable! The balls of my feet hurt, my calves hurt, my heels hurt in heels!

I have a secret theory about heels actually. Now, I don't know who invented high heels. I've looked around a bit but I can't get a straight, solid answer.
What I have gathered, and it makes perfect sense, that sometime in the late 1100's, the English developed heels to keep the heel of the foot from slipping in the stirrups while riding horses. From there Mary Tudor, or as others might know her "Bloody Mary" began wearing heels to compensate for her lack of height. From then through to the 19th century, it was the custom of both women AND men to wear high heels.

Alexander Mcqueen's Claw Heel Collection

These days, as much as it's we women who forward the pressure to wear heels, it's the men who get the most enjoyment. We certainly don't care that our calves look better for our OWN accord. I secretly think men like women to wear heels these days to ensure that we can't run away!!

On The Runway...I'm Sorry but...Do You Hate Your
FEET?

And those are just my feelings about regulare heels! Lets take a moment to focus on these BEAUTIES. They're called Claw Heels, and they're all the rage, now just where they began in Japan, but have spread all throughout the Asian continents, and have now been embraced by the United Kingdom native Alexander Mcqueen and American star Lady GaGa.
GaGa sported a pair of McQueens shoes in her music video for "Bad Romance", and the rend has taken off from there. On runways across the fashion world, McQueen debuted this crazy style up and down runways in front of the most important people in the fashion world. I'm just thanking god that it hasn't taken off too much past GaGa's video. If I see someone walking down the street in these...we have problems.
Variations of the Claw Heel have sprung up everywhere. My only thanks is that the full shape isn't translating into everyday fashion. Copy Cats played it safer that McQueen (and thank GOD) by only adapting the clawed heel into their design. Even Payless has it's own adaptation of the Claw Heel...and if Payless has it's own line, you know it must be getting everyday...