No matter how old you are, no matter you are fat or thin, shoes will be with you forever, especially a pair of beautiful high heels. Buying high heels is many women’s hobby. But do you know how to select high heels which suits you most? Here are some tips.

1. Look carefully before buying

Don’t buy high heels just at the first glance. You had better walk around the shop to see all the style. Usually, there are many new arrivals at spring and autumn every year. Then you can use the same money to buy the latest design. In addition, you had better avoid mail order or purchase on the Internet, unless you are sure about the exact size of your feet.

2. Try on the shoes

Improper high-heeled shoes will cause blisters and  toe inflammation. Therefore, you should  take preventive measures before these problems.

On one hand, all the shoes should be slightly larger than your feet. You should never buy a pair of tight shoes, even a little tight, because shoes that are too tight deform the feet. On the other hand, shoes which are too big or too loose can also lead to fatigue for your feet. It would also add additional negative effect for the feet. Besides, it is strange when wearing a pair of big shoes.  Just Imagine that a little girl wearing on her mother’s shoes. How strange!

When shopping in the shoes store, you’d better try on the closest three sizes of the shoes which you decide to buy. For example, you can try on large size, medium sized and small size. Besides, the shoes must be slightly larger than your feet. Otherwise, you should buy the half-size larger shoes.

3. Select the soles

High heels with leather soles are better than artificial leather, altough they are more expensive. And it’s better to placed shoe-pad inside the shoes, which can help relieve the pain. In addition, the shoe-pad will avoid you from slipping.

4. Pay attention to the ankle strap

Ankle strap is a good friend to the girls. Because ankle strap can help you to keep balance when wearing high heels, especially for a long walk. But the ankle strap should not be too tight, or it will hinder the feet blood circulation.

High-heel shoes, which first appeared in Ming Dynasty in the 14th century according to one saying while another insists that it was invented by the tailor from the French royal court in the 15th  century, hold strong attraction for the majority of women, including young and middle-aged ladies, and even some teenage girls. Wearing a pair of high-heel shoes usually makes every step of the wearer more graceful and at the same time increases her charm. Besides, it can also bring some medical advantages.

The arches of the foot, which are formed by the tarsal and metatarsal bones and strengthened by ligaments and tendons, allow the foot to support the weight of the body in the erect posture with the least weight, help to cushion the vibration while walking and protect the vessels and nerves in the sole from being pressed. As high-heel shoes have a similar arched shape, wearing them can preserve the foot arches and redress flat feet.

In order to maintain balance, the high-heel shoes wearer should square the shoulders, flat the belly, and walk with more strength from the calf. Thus, it can help to expand the pleural cavities, strengthen the lung capacity, and tone up the calf and the abdominal muscles. And another theory claims that it can increase the abdominal pressure and thus the wearer can lose weight by wearing high-heel shoes.

Lower limbs varicosity is common with women. Since high-heel shoes upraise the arches of the foot, it is favorable toward boosting the blood circulation. It can not only prevent such a disease, but also help to cure it.

To those women who are relatively short, the helpfulness and effects of high-heel shoes are more immediate and magical. By putting on a pair of high-heel shoes, they can grow tall in a wink which no medicine can make it happen even the TV commercials claim so.

Although wearing high-heel shoes does a lot of good, to walk with them everyday like Victoria Beckham does would not be a smart choice. The shoe with a heel which is too high does not appeal to human mechanics. As the whole weight of body falls on the former part of the sole, and the toes do not bear stress evenly, the wearer is very likely to get sore legs, twist her ankles, or fall down out of carelessness.

In order not to get into the trouble which might be caused by wearing high-heel shoes in an inappropriate way, the following instructions are highly recommended. Firstly, the best time to select a pair of suitable high-heel shoes is 3 to 4 o’clock in the afternoon. When trying the shoes, walk with them for about 10 minutes so that you can find the pair which fits your feet perfectly. For a pair of proper shoes, the height of the heel had better not exceed 5 cm and the heel should not be too slim, otherwise it cannot sustain the body weight stably. Secondly, it is not recommended to wear high-heel shoes every day. Those women who need to walk frequently are suggested wearing high-heel shoes and flat shoes alternatively so as to reduce the weariness of both feet. Thirdly, if possible, soak both feet in hot water for 5 minutes to relax them.

The aulic fashion designers from France invented high-heel shoes in the 15th century. From then on, the heights and widths of the heels have changed now and then. Whereas, there is never a lack of high-heel shoes fanatics since the high-heel shoes are the intimate friends of women, they share the experiences at every stage of life with each other, and the high-heel shoes would never cease to struggle to make a woman look perfect whether she is thin or fat in stature.

High-heel shoes are always a strong temptation to women from the cradle to the grave. And it attributes to the advantages brought by wearing high-heel shoes to women. First and foremost, nearly everybody is thirsty for being taller than the others, and wearing high-heel shoes happens to be able to offset a woman’s defect of height.

Secondly, after a woman puts on a pair of high-heel shoes looking good on her, her body will be heightened, furthermore, her abdomen and hip turn to be more tightly and better lifting. Consequently, the steps she takes become smaller and the posture she has got to be more graceful.

In addition, with the decrease in the range of the steps taken by a woman, the center of her gravity will be set back, correspondingly, an erect bearing comes out and the deep elegance of the woman was born. That’s the very reason why all the ladies are scrambling for the refined high-heel shoes.

Wearing high-heel shoes does well to the full-grown women, for the thenar is arched rather than absolutely even, and it is called the ‘arch of the foot’ medically. The arch of the foot has enough bounce to keep people’s stability when they are on their feet. And the high-heel shoes at certain heights bear functions of protecting and maintaining the arch of the foot. While it is inadvisable to wear the shoes with too high heels. Generally, 2-3 centimeter is the most feasible. If your shoes’ heels are too high and you have to wear them each day, it will be possible to cause the damnification to the thenar muscles and ligaments as well as to do damages to the physical arch of the foot. Besides, too high heels will make your center of gravity so unsteady that it will be easy for you to turn your ankles or even have a fracture of malleolus. Moreover, too high heels make a woman’s center of gravity lean forward, so her toes are all piled into the toe caps. As the time goes by, the toes will turn thick and the calluses and corns will also come into being. At the same time, the ailments, such as arthralgia and neuralgia will stop by at intervals.

‘To be or not to be, that is the question’, this is a classic question asked by Shakespeare many centuries ago. And today women are facing a similar question, that is ‘to wear high-heel shoes or not to wear, that is the question’. Well, here my suggestion is we should try to choose shoes at proper heights. Do not be too greedy; otherwise, your extrinsic beauty will be paid at the cost of your intrinsic health, which is not a cost-efficient deal. Just as the old saying goes, health is a blessing.