Talk:Heel (shoe)

Tone

First-person ("I believe") and dramatic flourishes ("non other than") are not appropriate. Cute slang ("vertically challenged"), even in a quotation, detracts from the article. Chris the speller 17:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

So does mistaking Louis XIV for Louis XV. The "Louis" heel is a "French heel". Louis XIV's heels were red: they did not have "battle scenes" painted on them. Look at the portraits. Where do you hear such stuff? Some close inspection of full-length portraits might result in improved text. --Wetman 08:50, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I also saw that when I was editing the other day, but it is a common misconception so I left it for now rather than getting into a long explanation. Basically, you have fairly high heeled shoes on Louis XIV, but the heel shape that we call a "Louis heel" really is better associated with Louis XV. Really, a lot of this needs to be merged back into the high-heel shoe article. Crypticfirefly 02:14, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

merge-tagging

• support merge. Chris 22:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
• Support Merge. Rhythmic01 23:31, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Mostly oppose. The article can stay as a much shorter discussion of shoe heels in general. Content that does not duplicate what's already at high-heeled shoe can and should be merged to that article. Daniel Case 13:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Oxford heel?

What is an Oxford-heel?--92.228.19.89 (talk) 21:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Physiological affects of heels

There are quite profound physiological affects of heels such as shortening the achilles heel muscle and affect on posture. This ought to be included.--Penbat (talk) 12:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

What about the Egyptian butchers' toes?

If the reason for Egyptian butchers wearing heels is to keep their feet above the offal, wouldn't they also want to keep their toes out of it, not just the heel end of their foot? Perhaps there is some other practical reason, or maybe it's a case of rank or badge of the profession. Wouldn't something like tall geta be better for that?76.24.125.127 (talk) 14:19, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

What about normal heels?

This article seems to focus mainly on high heels, what about lower heels? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.13.184.236 (talk) 05:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)