People associate pageants with glamour, where there are celebrities walking on the ramp wearing beautiful gowns, heels and make-up – but that’s just one aspect.
I haven’t grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn’t allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: ‘Please no high heels.’ It’s a little embarrassing.
If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as well scuttle back under her petticoats and let the real women in pencil skirts and tortuous heels get on with the job of husband-hunting.
I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can’t believe that I’m an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
I honestly find it easier to dance about in heels than I do to walk down the street in them.
I never thought I would end up wearing heels someday.
Heels are a must. The higher the better. And when in doubt, go with black.
Wearing heels is no joke.
Not always trainers, but if I don’t have to, I don’t wear high heels. It’s really just if something looks good on me, I’m going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel… I’m going to buy it.
I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I’ve to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
For me, I am a really tall woman, and I am really tall in heels, and I feel bigger, and I like being bigger. I think I was a king in a past life.
When I was 22, I thought I couldn’t wear heels because of my height.
I always wear my signature 5- to 5-and-a-half-inch heels.
I hate my feet. I don’t like my hands, either: they’re like lions’ paws. When I was in the Boosh, in a catsuit and gold heels, I was constantly thinking, ‘I hate the way I look.’ I should have just enjoyed myself, because that was as good as it was going to get.
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them – preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.
I would love to design my own shoe line. Women suffer too much in heels. I want to design a line of sexy platform heels that don’t hurt.
Donald Trump may be the loudest voice in the Republican presidential field, but on his heels is the candidate quietly surging to the front of the pack: Ben Carson.
When I’m sitting in bed watching ‘Chopped’ – that Brie I know. But I don’t know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she’s like.
I don’t really believe there is such a thing as bad fashion – it is all self-expression, which used to get me into trouble when I was a little girl because I think I started wearing heels when I was about ten, and I always refused to wear matching socks.
I don’t like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.
I’m always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.
I prefer jeans to a suit, sneakers to high heels, markets to malls.
I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels – but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.
See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don’t wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.
Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I’ll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet… those things are awkward enough on their own. You don’t want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.
It feels otherworldly to wear heels and makeup. Why fit in when you can stand out?
I can tell women’s confidence levels rise when they wear heels.
I’m a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn’t dress up.
I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.
Red carpet is always fun, but you’re never going to see me on the street or in the grocery store in 6-inch heels. But I am always going to have big, fabulous hair and makeup.
I’m very clumsy, so I learned to walk very slowly wearing heels every day.
I never wear heels unless I have to, like if I’m speaking at a panel or going to a reception. I’m always in tennis shoes or flats, and I’m definitely someone who does high-low mixing, like wearing Adidas sandals with blazers.
I go back to the rock n’ roll black leather jacket, red lips, smoky eyes. I like my high heels, maybe some leather pants or ripped jeans, things that have never really gone out of style. Again, it’s very reflective of who I am as a bandmate in our band.
I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men’s co-respondent lace-ups.
If you can fight in high heels, you can walk in high heels.
When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge… I didn’t get very far… It’s rather difficult to run away in your mother’s high heels.
On the ‘Revenge’ set, even if they’re not showing my feet, I’ll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.
It’s very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.
I don’t like kitten heels. I just don’t think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.
If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn’t look put on, it’s pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that’s terribly sexy too – like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.
Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.
It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that’s what I needed to do – that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.
My style during the day is very casual – boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I’m not afraid to push the envelope.
I’d like to be smart, fun, and real. It’s very easy to just put together a pretty dress, some heels, and some jewels. I don’t want to be that girl. It’s all about being brave, taking risks. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
This movement that RuPaul has created and World of Wonder and Logo has allowed to be aired, it’s so much than just gay men carrying on in high heels and wigs and fake fingernails. It’s truly a story of courageous souls. And I’m grateful that I’m a part of this.
If I’m dancing, I’m definitely not wearing heels. I just don’t love wearing heels. I feel it’s just a thing you have to do to keep it sexy or whatever, but I really don’t enjoy it. I just love wearing a sneaker.
I hate kitten heels; they’re useless. Either wear heels that are dangerous, or don’t wear them at all.
I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.
Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers – whatever works for you, honey.
Alexander McQueen will always be top of my list and I am really into Gianmarco Lorenzi heels.
I’m still a really shy performer and can’t wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.
There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels.
One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you’re walking in heels, you’ve got time. It’s much more attractive.
I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
While performing, I can’t wear anything that I’m not going to be able to dance in or heels that don’t have ankle support.
I think if I could be any superhero, it’d probably be my mom… but I don’t think I’d look too good in high heels, so it’s not gonna happen.
I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I’m comfortable in it, I feel confident.
