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.