High heels are ladder to self-confidence, businesswoman says

Calgary Herald ^ | Oct 25, 2009 | Karen Gram

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When Suzanne Fetting sees women shuffling down sidewalks in heels way too high for them, it makes the confidence coach crazy.

"Instead of lifting their feet up and planting them gracefully, they do a little thing called shuffling," says Fetting, a former runway model. "It drives me nuts."

And if they aren't dragging their feet forward, they wear the heels the way they wear running shoes. "They don't have that sexy sway that you get when you activate the hips," she says, adding you have to do that if you wear five-inch stilettos.

Fetting, who'll be speaking this weekend at the West Coast Women's Show in Abbotsford, has a closet filled with five-inch stilettos. She adores high heels. She has Fluevogs, Iron Fists, and lots of other styles. At five-foot 10, she already towers over most women, but she likes the feeling heels give her.

"I know when I put on high heels, I feel more confident," she says.

After years of watching Vancouver gals wobbling along in their heels, Fetting decided to take matters into her own hands. She set up a business called High Heel Appeal and offers classes to anyone who wants to learn how to strut her stuff like a runway pro. Why?

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Suzanne Fetting preaches the power of high heels and runs a course "High Heel Appeal" for women on how to walk properly in them.

FMPs. Works for us fellers.

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[Hildy]

I don’t know..I didn’t get the high heel shoe gene. I HATE HEELS.

[tired1]

Women and their stupid shoes, I don’t get it and I don’t want to understand.

[ArrogantBustard]

confidence coach

WhiskeyTangoFox???

[Larry Lucido]

Not sure I recommend them on a ladder, but okay.

[PeteB570]

She’ll get no argument from me.

I love watching a woman strut along with confidence and hips swaying.

Then you have the hunched over females walking flat footed looking like they are shuffling along like granny.

[PGR88]

She’s got the dominatrix-thing working for her.

[greatplains]

Classes on how to wear high heels? So sorry I’ll be having to miss those - conflicts with my “How to button your shirt” class.

[ravingnutter]

Go ahead and cripple your feet if you want to lady...not me.

[12Gauge687]

Me, too. here's an examle of both types you mentioned:

[pissant]

I'd spank her.

[JoeProBono]

[Erik Latranyi]

When I went to college in the mid-1980s, I watched girls literally drag their feet across the floor, making sound as they did.

I could not understand it.

When I saw them in heels, I knew they were not self-confident women who knew how to ‘strut’.

[Lady Jag]

Some heels are okay. Some are murder.

[JoeProBono]

[paulycy]

Some heels are okay. Some are murder.

Shouldn't matter as long as your calves look good.... ;0)

[Darksheare]

I honestly don’t understand why women wear them.

[pissant]

Because most men like them.

[1_Rain_Drop]

too many Klinger(s) LOL

[latina4dubya]

I honestly don’t understand why women wear them.

legs look better in them... there are some that are quite comfortable...

[Lady Jag]

Shouldn't matter as long as your calves look good.... ;0)

People with great calves don't need heels.

[Slings and Arrows]

[paulycy]

HA!

[paulycy]

Now you’re talkin’....

[latina4dubya]

People with great calves don't need heels.

even women with great calves look better in heels... in my opinion...

[Lady Jag]

[paulycy]

even women with great calves look better in heels... in my opinion...

As a guy I completely agree with you.

(I'm just glad that *I* don't have to wear them!)

[P.O.E.]

For the fashionable gal on the go.

[LUV W]

Ouch!

[paul51]

High heels are ladder to self-confidence, businesswoman says,

I have to wonder about women that buy into this kind of crap

[Darksheare]

I would hope so.
They look painful to me.
But then again, I’m used to seeing the mincing “Ouch” walk.

[STARWISE]

I ruined my feet and knees, running up
and down 3 stories of building stairs
in heels for 10 years.

I’m paying dearly now ... they’ll pay,
too, for all those momentary, superficial,
adoring male glances.

[STARWISE]

Now I know you’re really frustrated and
diggin’ with no new *important* news ... LOL

[Darksheare]

I dunno, I like a good set of bicycler or runners calves on a lady.

[Daffynition]

[Lady Jag]

Women are like cats. You’ll make yourself crazy trying to figure them out.

[pissant]

What is more important than women with lovely gams?

[Darksheare]

Oh, cats I figured out long ago.
They’re from a parallel dimension and are here to study us.
We’re their entertainment.

[nascarnation]

nice pic
she’s a sporty lookin gal IMHO

[Allegra]

I don’t know..I didn’t get the high heel shoe gene. I HATE HEELS.

I do too. I don't even own a pair - I never wear them.

Besides, I'm a klutz enough as it is with flats on. ;-)

[pissant]

Me too. but everything has its time and place.

[yorkie]

Some women's feet just don't look good in any heels.

[Darksheare]

What grabs my attenion: a woman in uniform, lady bicycling, runners legs, swimmers legs.
(Note, one of the above is wearing boots!)
Hey, what can I say...
My motivations and responses are rather simple and straightforward.
(What.. clean dry cushiony socks? Where’d ya get ‘em, I need some.)

[STARWISE]

I'll let ya just ponder that question for a moment or 2.

[Darksheare]

Converse?
Are those old converse..?A set of flats or maybe Doc Marts would have been better with that dress.
*Ack, speaking as an artist again!*

[Darksheare]

And the dreaded female mugato walked into Kirk’s view...

[LucyT]

[ottbmare]

I honestly don’t understand why women wear them.

Cause they make our legs look fabulous, improve the appearance of what might otherwise be unattractive feet, and make our hips wiggle more than they otherwise would. And make our ankles look trimmer so we can wear longer skirts without seeming clunky and fat-calved.

All that said, I can rarely wear them because I am very tall and the heels push me over six feet, which makes me tower over a lot of men and makes even the tall ones uncomfortable.

[Darksheare]

I’m 5’5” tall.
I speak at my eye level.
That is often a bad thing.
Especially when heels are involved.
I’d have to beg you not to wear them were we to speak.