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As for this comic…
This comic speaks to a truth I have observed. As a person who, due to his profession, has attended more proms than any one person should ever rightly attend, I can readily state that far too many girls wear high heels thinking said heels are an asset, while not realizing that their inability to walk around in said heels is a liability. If one cannot confidently ambulate in heels, one should not wear heels. And as I've noted before, the percentage of girls in high school who can successfully ambulate in heels is dropping precipitously.
Hobbling around like a maimed deer is never good. Ever.
![They should list the Head Injury Factor (HIF) on all footwear. Like, six inch platform heels should be labeled "HIF: EGREGIOUS".](https://puckcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/puck-452.png "They should list the Head Injury Factor (HIF) on all footwear. Like, six inch platform heels should be labeled "HIF: EGREGIOUS".")
Puck 452
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As for this comic…
This comic speaks to a truth I have observed. As a person who, due to his profession, has attended more proms than any one person should ever rightly attend, I can readily state that far too many girls wear high heels thinking said heels are an asset, while not realizing that their inability to walk around in said heels is a liability. If one cannot confidently ambulate in heels, one should not wear heels. And as I've noted before, the percentage of girls in high school who can successfully ambulate in heels is dropping precipitously.
Hobbling around like a maimed deer is never good. Ever.
Dammit Gecko stop reading my diary.
But the material in there is so good…
@avstron
I did not know you had a Fairy God mother that was also the daughter of Satan.
@JJR
That will probably be my sister. Let’s see…
well meaning ✔️
Daughter of Satan ✔️
fashionista ✔️… Gecko must have read all about our shopping trips.
The boobs are poetic licence on Gecko’s part though.
I tend to take poetic license with bewbs.
If I want a feeling of power and dominance from a pair of shoes, I would pick a nice pair of steel capped Rossi or Blundstone boots.
Your feet feel protected, you can kick stuff, you gain a little height, but also some protection from nails or sharp stuff. You can walk on rough or slippery terrain easier, and I’m sure there are some blokes who would even wear them on the dance floor.
Well, I can’t really argue there. The ability to kick stuff violently is the best expression of power and dominance, perhaps.
Is it possible to kick stuff non-violently?
If my pair weren’t full of holes from being used to hard too long I would definitely be one of those blokes. As is, I’m lucky they don’t fall apart when I put them on.
well saw off the front inch or two on the top. Call them “open toe dress boots”
Aren’t they steel toe boots? You’d need a good hacksaw.
Nah, just a running lawnmower.
You’d mess up your blade.
Platform boots. Nuf said.
Those things are dangerous.
they really are! a few years ago some crazy designer came up with highheeled platform boots, as in 15 cm platform and 30 cm heel, held to the foot by two small straps only – needless to say the model crashed from the catwalk. she broke both her legs and needed surgery. her agency sued the designer, claiming NO ONE could´ve walked on these things, he argued she was just too clumsy+stupid. court asked him to proove it and walk on them, when he refused to even put them on (and failed to bring someone else able to walk on them) he lost 😉
I think that dude should have been forced to wear the shoes for a set period of time as part of the settlement.
I could not find the incident you mentioned but I found this article about the ridiculous things designers make model wear and the subsequent falls on the runway.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2281869/Watch-step-Model-wearing-wacky-sky-high-platform-shoes-takes-tumble-embarrassing-London-Fashion-Week-finale.html
I am all for the Law Code of Hammurabi in this case. If a man makes a woman wear terrible shoes and she falls and breaks her neck, let the man be forced to wear the same shoes for all his days.
I’m beginning to think you guys have an entirely different image of platform boots than I do. What I’m thinking of might be best thought of as a form of combat boot, but with really thick soles. Or motorcycle boots.
I use to run a shoe store we refered to that kind of shoe as stripper heels.
Looks like it wasn’t even a failure to ambulate, but a failure against gravity.
In her defence, apart from that look, she was falling gracefully.
Yes, this is the simplest and most basic of failures: failure to stand.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: high heels are overrated and if I don’t like you without them, wearing them is not gonna change my mind.
I’ve seen multiple women walk around in high heels and complained about how much their feet (and backs) hurt, which always caused me to think “Why do you not bring a spare pair of shoes, such as sneakers, to swap to instead?”
When I once asked a classmate that (last year of high school), I got the reply “where should [she] have said sneakers?”
Me: …In… That purse you’re holding?
The reply I got was a dumbfounded blank face (something tells me she didn’t think about that prior to me commenting on it).
The official rule seems to be that going barefoot is acceptable when the dancing starts, but having secondary replacement shoes is unacceptable. That’s just what I’ve seen.
But they do wonders for the shape of the leg!
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if I don’t like you normally, wearing high heels will not change my mind.
(I accidentally sent that message too early and for some reason my other comment didn’t show up that I replied to that one. Weird. Apologies if you got multiple of my comments because I have no idea why this time!)
I remember commenting at one point that if women find high heels painful, they should bring sneakers or something to change into.
I was asked where they’d keep said sneakers, making me remark that they could just bring them in their (empty) purses.
I got a blank stare as a reply.
I’m sorry the somewhat unpredictable spam filter was catching your comment. I’ve restored some of them. They were good stuff.
high heels, ugh! i have a few elegant shoes with about 2 inch heels, all ankle-high, which helps stability-wise, but everything above is beyond me….did you know that they´re even doing plastic surgery nowadays to make feet fit into those things? i´m not just talking about injecting botox into the ball of the feet – which is sick enough – but removal of parts of the metatarsal bones. one particular woman even had a toe and the matching metatarsal removed completely(!) to get smaller/slimmer feet. HELLO?! i have rather large+broad feet as well, finding fitting shoes is a chore from hell, but i´d never remove bones!
That surgery thing … is terrifying.
My wife sometimes has the opposite problem from you. She has very thin feet, and sometimes it’s a challenge to find shoes that fit. (She comes by it honestly; everything about her is long and thin.) They do make special wide shoes and narrow shoes for the non-standard people, but they’re almost impossible to find. Also, in our city, the special shoes primarily were available from this noted shoe store run by a family of creepy dudes who (in my wife’s educated opinion) are way too into feet for their own good. She would always get creeped out going to their store, so that made shoe buying harder.
Oddly enough, her feet have kind of normalized over the years so now she can wear most women’s shoes no problem. But I remember the nightmare of the non-standard feet shoe hunt.
Are you sure it was her feet which normalized and not the women shoes which “normalized”?
She purposefully dedicated herself to doing foot exercises, which were meant to fix her fallen arches. The fallen arch thing meant that her foot was longer, about a ten narrow. Now her feet are a normal eight.
But, she’ll always be a ten to you, amirite?
Oh, you’re good.
With great power comes…great need to balance yourself so you don’t kill yourself walking in heels
Uncle Ben was known for his killer heels.
Since I reached six feet, I never saw the point of lifts.
“Short people got no reason to live”?
–Randy Newman
Short women have lots of reasons. Short men have it harder.
A girls natural height does sometimes seem to connect to their proclivity for heels. My wife’s over 5’8″. If she’s wearing heels, she’s close to six feet. She therefore doesn’t really feel the need to wear them as often. I have a co-worker who is about five feet tall. She never wears anything other than heels.
Actually, the heels are for looking into the eyes of that six-foot man. He doesn’t need lifts, she does.
“And as I’ve noted before, the percentage of girls in high school who can successfully ambulate in heels is dropping precipitously.”
At my office, I’ve noticed the opposite. Most of the 30 and up ladies wear “sensible shoes”. The only ones wearing “the cruel shoes” are the young 20-somethings, and they seem well-practiced in their stride.
(Not that I’m watching their legs everytime they walk by. That would make me a dirty old man, now, wouldn’t it.)
Maybe that’s regional? I don’t know. Around here, all the heels in a workplace environment are worn by older women. The older you are (up to about 60), the more likely you are to wear heels. I know that sounds odd, and it is, but around here, as women get older, they seem to double down on the ridiculous footwear.
You really need to start with training heels, Daffy.
Do they have extra stabilizer heels on the side? This I gotta see!
Nah. They’re just shorter. :p
I suspect that Susan and Salemcat will be printing copies of panel three and hanging them in a place of honor.
You and me both.
I have to say I didn’t see this coming. I though every little girl learned to walk i heels in her momma’s closet. Of course, we don’t know what kind of mother Daffy had.
Actually we do. She was left with Puck from when she was around six, eight years old. And got Colin as a father figure at nearly the same time. I’m trying to decide= do we then look at Daph and say ‘that explains it all” or “amazing how well she’s turned out”? I’d like to add the option of ‘so what went wrong?” but as hard as I try I can’t make myself believe that option is credible. And I’m the guy who literally took forty years to figure out Andy Capp= handicap.
Andy Capp is supposed to sound like Handicap? HOLY SH$&! I never knew that! Seriously, I never realized.
Well, perhaps not sound exactly like handicap, but as I understand it that is how Reg Smythe came up with the name for his cartoon creation. He also stated the strip really should be Andy and Flo Capp, but then the pun goes away.
All of this is correct and observant.
Not all girls do this. Some don’t care. Some also don’t have moms who wear high heels. I don’t think Puck owns a pair of shoes with any heel over one inch in height.
It’s too difficult to chase cars in heels. Puck would never give up her ability to hunt down the people who anger her.
Exactly.
Granted. Robin in stilettos is a terrifying concept
Not as terrifying as Robin WITH a stiletto.
But terrifying enough.
But will Daphne be able to harness the power of high heels in time for the prom?
If she does what damage will she do?
Heels cannot be learned in a week. Or a month. Heels take years of proper practice.
@EG
Yeah, for a Jack-O-Lope.
Hannah VanBeek was BORN in 4 inch Heels.
COME ON DAPHNE !
You call those CLOD-HOPPERS CFM’S ???
Those are NUN SHOES.
Add another INCH and then we’ll talk.
Hannah VanBeek can strut in 4″ Heels and make it look like she’s floating on air.
Daphne, you are TOAST.
Just have Robin sew your dress, Miranda trowel on your makeup with her fingerpaints, wear Colin’s old Walmart Sneakers, and go for the PITY VOTE.
It is your only chance.
Oh crap.
My last missive was censored and hidden by EG’s bot.
It was true genius, too.
sigh
It’s back.
@EG
And now the world is a better place.
😛
What is a strange and unaccustomed feeling towards Daphne this strip engenders: PITY for the plucky sociopath.
Over the years she has caused mostly amusement, some annoyance and occasional sympathy as the determined moppet bullied her way to success or near-success on her own terms. But here does she face a foe beyond her determination: the prom?
This whole adventure will be one long, weird trip down a rabbit hole of pity and awkwardness. That much I can promise.
We must never forget EARTHSHOES
Idiotic Hippie abominations that placed the Heel BELOW the Toe.
Well, technically, that shoe put the heel below the ball of the foot. But it is an abomination nonetheless.
Try THESE on, Daphne.
@SalemCat
‘Cause Hannah ordered THESE
IN RED
I do believe that some kind of deal has to be made with Satan to walk in those without long term injury. Hannah Van Beek must be a mutant with nothing but cartilage where her foot bones should be if she can be comfortable dancing at prom in shoes like that.
@MC
Is Hannah VanBeek actually the hell-spawn of Hamilton’s Satan and Traceee Topaz ?
Stranger things have happened.
Fer instance, there once was a mutant-child born of Regis Philbin and a Jackal…..
Might I humbly suggest to daphne that there is another tool for women that invocks power and dominance, and is much better suited for her..
It’s call a wonderbra
errr…. Invokes, not invocks… grrrr
‘Invocks’ sounds cooler.
Isn’t Invocks a Speyside distillery?
I dunno… Trying to out prom the promsters seems like trying to out rural the Waltons.
‘The Promsters’ would be a great band name. Just saying.
Hey, Daffy. Check out Agnetha and Abbe-Marie’s boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8O79uP0JmM
Yeah, that’s a heel. That’s also an awful video. Man, the medium was in its infancy. “Let’s start with an establishing shot about fifty feet away from the band and, uh, just hold that for about half the video.”
Which one is Paul ?
Why are Ringo’s drums missing ?
I DO see Mark Hamill playing the GEETAR, tho.
Who knew his Jedi powers included strumming strings ?
I just love Aerosmith !
Extra points for the snark — and did you know that there is an Abba tribute band from Australia (because bands almost never tour Australia)? Their name is Bjorn Again. (Excuse the spelling, I can’t make my keyboard produce the proper Scandinavian letters.)
What?! No banana peel? I thought that was required for slips and falls in comics! :p
Heels also count as banana peel alternatives.
It’s so much better when someone ELSE is walking around like a maimed deer.
Is it often you? It sounds like it’s often you.
I’ve always considered one of the most attention-grabbing factors of high heels to actually be the sound.
Think back to any scene in any movie anywhere, where a sharp-dressed woman walks into the place in her heels (and the camera will be on the floor behind her, focused on those heels). Every step resounds on that hard floor.
tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok tok
You can hear it in your head right now, can’t you?
And throughout the place, office, hotel lobby, whatever it is… everyone stops what they’re doing and looks towards the sound. All attention is on this lady at once.
Yes, the SOUND of heels is surprisingly a big part of their appeal.
Not for the stealthy.