What's the most challenging surface to wear high heels?

[Joanna]

Hi

What do you think are the most challenging surfaces / weather conditions to walk in whilst wearing high heels and why?

I personally find polished marble floors quite a challenge, very slippery!

Joanna xx

 

[Hipkitten]

Ice and snow

 

[Joanna]

Yeah, i would agree there! I've had quite a few incidents with my heels on snow and ice! It's very good fun tho!!

What experiences do you have with your heels in snow / ice?

 

[henriette]

the bumpy ceramic stone tiles that encompass the 4 city blocks of the Embarcadero Center in SF. That's where I work, and its impossible to walk in heels around there. I love to laugh at women walking in stillettos (especially when those tiles are wet) they look like they've never worn heels before!

 

[Chloe-Babe]

Any cobbled type paving does it for me! You can be happily walking along, minding your own business and then, out of nowhere, a cobbled path appears, to ruin your day and make you walk like you desperately need the toilet . My other pet hate is if you get your high spikes caught in a hole, and they actually stick in and you lose the shoe, so not a good look

 

[Kalista]

Ice and snow

Ice. Even with flatties I find it hard to walk on ice.

 

[Deleted 2]

Gravel driveways. It's not too hard to balance and make reasonable forward progress, but you've got to be either tiptoe (with the individual stones poking you mercilessly ) or risk tearing the covering clear off your heels. It's the only excuse for those steel heels!

 

[Alejandro]

Oh gosh, when I walk into the lobby of any hotel, those polished marble floors are a disaster zone for heels... I always tend to grab on someone when I walk in...and don't ask me when im not sober...

 

[Stilettophile]

Standing up while sliding down a polished stainless steel playground slide.

 

[oona]

Boardwalks, wooden decks.

I also agree about the gravel. On my way to work, I have to walk through a parking lot with large patches of concrete rubble poking into the sole of my heels- ravaging them I'm sure!

 

[Ms. Diorella]

Tiled Pavement with cracks and gaps, i always get my heel stuck in newcastle gah, i have very little dignity left because of those damn tiled streets

 

[SanDiego]

For me its that commercial carpet, its soo flat I always slip on that kind of carpet

 

[lilach]

wooden outside flooring (teak wood decks ) and wothout a doubt wet lawn !

 

[Hipkitten]

I second the wet lawn. There's nothing worse that having your heels sink into wet grass

 

[stilettogirl84]

Hi

What do you think are the most challenging surfaces / weather conditions to walk in whilst wearing high heels and why?

I personally find polished marble floors quite a challenge, very slippery!

Joanna xx

I always stick rubber grips on the bottom of my shoes, even- especially -the expensive designer ones. Youd think manolo blahnik would have the courtesy of a little grip on the bottom- i mean the leather type sole looks good, but you cant strus properly if your feet keep slipping.

and how about a little padding under the ball of the foot? even a little would help

 

[henriette]

I always stick rubber grips on the bottom of my shoes, even- especially -the expensive designer ones. Youd think manolo blahnik would have the courtesy of a little grip on the bottom- i mean the leather type sole looks good, but you cant strus properly if your feet keep slipping.

and how about a little padding under the ball of the foot? even a little would help

try rubbing (white) candle wax on the bottom of your shoes, like a surfer would wax his board - those stick-on grips peel off and look like you stepped in doo-doo when they get old.

 

[Arksiel]

polished and waxed hardwood, marble tile, laminate fake hardwood...ice...

I thought I was the only one who slid around in her heels on some of these surfaces! I like the wax suggestion, I had considered something like thin stick-on felt ( get it in colours to match the soles of the shoes, but it would also peel off I suppose ) however the wax thing is ingenious

I always wonder how celebrities manage...dont see many paparazzi shots of them sliding about in heels....and we probably would if there were any?

 

[Echoes]

Seems like candle wax would be slippery....

 

[the_dark_angel]

on cobbled type pavement!!!!!!! always get my hills stuck there!!!

 

[DP_woman]

Definitely the marble floors. I might go to a comedy show at the AfAm musuem on friday, and that's the first thing that popped into my head--those crazy marble floors! And if its raining, its impossible, you will fall on your ***. HATE navigating marble in heels.