What are High Heels?

High Heels are a type of footwear that raises the heel of a women's foot higher than the toes. Heels heights can range from 2 to 5 inches. If the sole of the shoe is raised by a platform to create what is know as platform heels then heel heights of up to 8 inches can be found. Such extremely high platform heels are sometimes also called stripper heels as they are a popular prop for strippers and exotic dancers.

High heels shoes have a strong sexual connotation since they enhance a woman's sexuality by tilting the body to emphasis the breasts and the butt. They also make a women's legs look longer and more slender. The fashion industry has produced an immense array of hot, sexy heels that are preferred by fashion conscious young women around the globe for clubbing, dancing and playing. Fashionistas and the men that adore them love high heels for various reasons:

Look Taller

Shorter women everywhere will tell you how much they love their heels - using platform heels you can easily add up to 8 inches to your height. But, even if you are a tall woman putting on a pair of hot heels will make you feel gorgeous and sexy.

Look Slimmer

High Heels, by elongating the legs and thereby making you taller, will enhance your overall body shape. Your body will appear to be stretched out in height, thus reducing the relative body width giving you a slimmer look.

Add Spice to Any Outfit

By adding a pair of high heels even a plain pair of jeans and a t-shirt can look super hot and nothing can make a plain skirt turn heads like the perfect pair of high heel pumps or high heel sandals worn along with it. High heels add a feminine touch even to formal business suits.

Look and Feel Sexy

Putting on a pair of hot high fashion heels can make you feel and look sexier. High heels force your body into an upright position, making your calf muscles more pronounced, and pushing your butt and breasts out. So essentially high heels force you into better posture, which is always sexy.

Disadvantages of High Heels

Though high heels shoes look beautiful and turn heads, they may have some impact on the health of the wearer. This is because it tilts the foot forward at an unnatural angle causing the weight of the body to be heavily concentrated on the balls of the feet and toes. This can cause damage to the soft tissues under that area which support the foot. This posture also transfers an undesirable amount of pressure on the lower back where the lower vertebrae of the back can become compressed and the muscles of the lower back are made to contract. This could lead to excruciating pain over time. Wearing high heels for prologoned periods of time also puts additional pressure on the knees which can increase the risk of joint degredation. To counter balance those risk, doctores recommend that you limit the daily hours during which you wear high heels and save them for special occasions. You should also do regular stretching exercises where you stand with your toes on a step and let your foot heel drop down as far as possible.

Different Heel Types

Sexy high heels shoes come with many different types of heels. For example, the cone heel is a type of round heel, which at the place where it is fixed to the shoe's sole, it is round and very much narrower at the end. There is the prism heel which has three sides that are flat and the end point is a triangle. Modern wedges are also included in the high heels category. The stiletto heels are really slim and tall heels , two inches or more in height, and is just about 0.4 inch at the pointed end.  It is named after the stiletto dagger, a knife with a long slender blade and needle-like point. The thin heel makes high heel stilettos one of the most sexiest high heel shoes available. Stiletto heels can cause damage to certain types of floors. Linoleum and wood floors that are urethane varnished are especially susceptible to damage from such shoes. So, in order to prevent such damage, there are protectors which cover the pointy edges called ‘guards' or ‘raps'. These heel covers are quite often used while participating in ballroom dancing which is usually conducted on wooden floors.