Lupus Shoes
Today’s prompt for the 30 Days of Writing Challenge hosted by We Work For Cheese is “Stiletto Heels.”
I used to have so many Stilettos only in the 80′s they were called “pumps.”
I loved my pumps!
I had pumps of every color and I wore them every single day.
Jeans, button-up top with neon colors (“hot” colors, as they were called in the 80′s), with a matching tank top under the shirt, collar popped. No stockings. Bare feet or sometimes very thin socks with a little ruffle around the top of the sock and pumps to match the shirt.
I rocked that outfit!
LOVE the suspenders! Baby blue pumps with this outfit to match the suspenders.
Black pumps that day
Now?
Fuck those damn shoes!
Lupus Arthritis in the toe has made me hate heels. Stilettos, pumps, whatever people call them these days.
I walk down the street wearing my New Balance sneakers (or my work boots that the doc said I should have orthopedics placed inside) and I see people walking down the street with heels on and I cringe.
Part of me worries about the pain they will feel in a few years from torturing their feet so much now.
And part of me wants to see their ankles snap in half because I am jealous that I can’t wear them anymore.
But this video? Makes me feel a lot less jealous!
What happened to Number 8? Where exactly did she go when she fell?? Hahahahahahah!
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That video is hilarious! My favourite? No 4 – Oh my word!! I have No 2 on my iPhone and watch it whenever I need a good laugh
June 23, 2012 at 3:11 pm
I love this video!! Glad I helped you laugh!!!
June 24, 2012 at 2:17 am
OMG, that was hysterical!!! I wonder, though, if they fall because of the heels or because they’re just so brittle. They make me want to force-feed them M&Ms.
June 23, 2012 at 3:32 pm
I know. I was yelling to the video, “Don’t fall! Your legs will snap!”
June 24, 2012 at 2:18 am
I left the video thinking the same thing, “Those gals could use some M and Ms!” A girlfriend’s daughter is a model and there’s a certain WAY they have to walk on the runway. Not with a normal stance like you and I might do, but with their feet really close together. Add in the HIGH, HIGH heels and I’m surprised there aren’t more accidents!!
June 24, 2012 at 2:05 pm
It is a sport in and of itself!!
June 24, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Sorry you can’t wear the heels anymore. I guess when it was second nature, you really miss it.
June 23, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I usually don’t mind..unless I am dressing up. Then I deal with the pain because I like them too much!!
June 24, 2012 at 2:19 am
And here I thought that models had that down pat. Tooo funny.
June 23, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Some are about as graceful as I am in heels!
June 24, 2012 at 2:19 am
Oh I LOVE that video!!!!! Cracks me up EVERY time!
June 23, 2012 at 11:09 pm
You have seen it before? This was my first time!
June 24, 2012 at 2:20 am
Other than I can’t see from the black background, I love the things that you write about. The pi=ost about stack/stilletto heels reminded me of the heels I used to wear; those days of looking stylish -oh ever so stylish and sheik (Sp?) are gone for good, only to be replaced by osteonecrosis, arthritis and Lord knows what else!
Not long ago a family member graduated from HS. I was dressed to the 9s, no, 15s(!), until you saw that beautiful outfit was accented by a smart pair of SNEAKERS!! All I ca wear these days. Used to be black thigh big, boots…Those were the days!
June 24, 2012 at 12:06 am
Thanks, Annie! I should try to remember to make the font bigger. I love the black background but it does make it difficult to read. Thanks! We need to find some sexy arthritis shoes…or invent some! Lol.
June 24, 2012 at 2:21 am
There’s a place here in Colorado Springs that has shoes for arthritics and diabetics and I’ve yet to make it over there. Possibly it’s part of my denial that my days of fashionable shoes are GONE. That is a huge gulp! I’ve got to make it over; maybe I’ll be pleasntl surprised!
June 24, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I actually wore heels today…I will feel it tomorrow!!!
June 24, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Reblogged this on LUPUS CHRONICLES and commented:
Those stilettos we took for granted back then; tell me all; “How many of you still wear them?” And how many have been forced into the world of ORTHOPEDIC OXFORDS and also forced to rescind a life of looking glamorous once in a while, for sneakers. Many of us mourn that loss and it’s just ONE MORE LOSS in the life of a lupus, We must all grieve out losses, but NOT let the grief take over. LEARN TO LAUGH@!!
June 24, 2012 at 12:09 am
thanks for the reblog, Annie!!!
June 24, 2012 at 9:00 pm
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I swear I had the same baby blue suspenders. I remember when I was 20, during my first year of university, I used to wear heels. I was known as “that girl who wears the heels all the time.” And now…? I can barely stand and I’m clumsy, and I actually tripped off stage during my first bikini competition and broke the shoes as I received my trophy. Maybe that should have been my first clue that it was time to put some clothes on….ok, so enough about me…I think your New Balance sneakers are more my speed…pardon the pun…
June 24, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Haha!!! I am so sorry you fell!!! Funny how when we are young we say we will never act old…then we have no choice!
June 25, 2012 at 9:29 am
Very funny indeed. I am one of those who have long since hung up my stilettos.
It took falling down the old-fashioned train station steps made of cement, busting up my knees, a tipped womb and twisting my ankles far too many times than I care to imagine to finally get the message.
Now I’m trying to warn my lovely young nieces who could care less that their toes are scrunched into these ultra high heels.
My mother used to call it the “pains of beauty.” “Pains of beautiy” bah, humbug!
I love my New Balance sneakers and it takes a heck of a lot to get me out of them.
June 25, 2012 at 8:43 am
OMG….I wonder if people really know how unsafe these shoes actually are!!! Let’s start a “flat movement!!!!!” Thanks for stopping by my blog!! =)
June 25, 2012 at 9:34 am
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