High heels or healthy feet? or The trials of SJP

Sarah Jessica Parker claims that high heels have ruined her feet.  Apparently years of wearing stilettos have left her feet deformed and she no longer wears high heels.  Miss Parker claims that she worked 18 hour days and never took her heels off.

This, Joy of Tights thinks, may be at the root of Miss Parker's problem.  Yes heels are wonderful.  But your feet need lots of breaks from them.  I might be as bold as to suggest that if you are doing 18 hour days, perhaps 9 of those hours need to be in your bare or stocking feet.

Walk in heels, but don't run in anything but your stocking feet.

Ready to run?

Apparently Miss Parker went to a foot doctor who said "Your foot does things it shouldn't be able to do.  That bone there .... You've created that bone.  It does not belong there."  If only Miss Parker had slipped her feet out of her shoes.

Ahhh so nice to get your foot out of heels

Podiatrists (aka foot doctors) reckon there are two health problems with heels:

• They cause "hammer toe" because the front of your foot is permanently bent
• The shorten the calf making in harder to walk up hills (Who wants to walk up a hill anyway?).

Get those heels off and straighten those toes

Of course you don't have to be wearing tights to slip your stilettos off and relax your feet.  But here are three reasons for wearing tights if you are going to go about shoe-less.

• Even quite sheer tights hide those little foot imperfections.  And who, apart from SJP, can afford regular pedicures.
• Tights keep your feet that little bit warmer.
• Tights stop your feet from getting so dirty.

Now of course going about in your stocking feet could get the attention of a pantyhose pedivert.  (I made that up, good eh?  From Latin "pedi" meaning "foot" and English "pervert" meaning "sicko").  But these are mostly harmless, at least compared with a life of foot damage.

Take off your shoes in a group to deter the pedivert

Now I know some of you will say just wear flats.

But how much "sex in the city" or sex anywhere else for that matter do you get from a pair of flats?