Happy belated Valentines Day to everyone. To be honest–I love chocolates and romance and all that jazz–but I have a hard time grasping the obsession with Valentines Day.  Do you realize thereare nearly 100,000 photos tagged Valentine on Flickr??

 I realize that it may be sacreligious as a girl to even whisper this… but I THINK VALENTINES DAY IS LAME.  In my humble opinion, there is nothing romantic about Hallmark ,Russell Stover, Whitmans, Godiva Chocolatiers, 1.800.Flowers and Korbel Champagne capitalizing on the tale of Saint Valentine.  Not to mention 2/14 becomes an absolute torture chamber for the unattached.  If you ask me it’s just cruel.  Plus, wouldn’t you rather get flowers on a random day than on a day that your significant other feels obligated to send them? (I’m not complaining hunny–i mean my roses were very very pretty)–but you get what I’m saying…

More later

Thanks for the tip on this one blondie …

Oh Gizmo introduced to me another option for all those sore-footed Short is the New Tall readers out there! 

 Apparently some absolute genius (otherwise known as Marte de Hollander) created convertible high heels.  According to Oh Gizmo the design known as footloose “offers the best of both worlds with adjustable high heels that turn into flats by simply twisting the heel around.”

I’m skeptical.  I’d simply have to try these babies on.  I mean…are they fashionable? Is the heel going to collapse when I’m walking down the street? … That just will not do at all! 

If anyone has tried these out let me know.  Comfort without sarficing style is always a plus in my book.

Jenn Abelson from the Globe (Boston.com) reported today that a New England firm, working with an MIT-trained rocket scientist, unveiled inserts that supposedly make high heels almost as easy to wear as sensible shoes.

Maybe this isn’t a huge deal for everyone…but frankly, I’m 5′2 (actually more like 5′1 and 1/2–but let’s call it 5′2) and high heels give me a confident boost—so humor me . 

What’s perhaps most intriguing to me about this article is the fact that rocket scientists are taking time out of their day to work on making… comfortable high heels? With all due respect (and I do truly respect this creation), there have to be a gazillion other things more significant than comfortable shoes that a rocket scientist could be working on.  Am I right or am I right?

Anyway, back to the shoe inserts…the Globe reports that the company, HBN Shoe LLC of Salem, N.H., which markets products under the Insolia brand, “is now selling $9.99 weight-shifting inserts in CVS stores and will roll them out to other outlets this year.”

So there yah go–go get em’ girls!  I basically live in heels.  Short may in fact be the new tall–but 5′2 is a bit too short for my liking.

I’ll wear heels anywhere–even when it’s not the most appropriate or rational choice…my favorite is the cobblestone area in Fanueil Hall where your stilleto heals get stuck constantly…Even better is spikey heels during a full day of strolling around the streets of NYC window shopping.  I always insist, in the name of fashion, that my feet feel great, and I’m only hobbeling along slowely to be sure “I take it all in.” Yah right.

Well now the days of discomfort are coming an end–Halleluiah.

Strangely enough, bringing comfort to high heels  is legitimately rocket science.