Women's issue - false whatever
First we have false boobs, then the styles move to false height.. with shoes so tall now that there have to be platforms.
Now the new thing is false eyelashes. Not the old kind we had in the 1960's but huge, thick caterpillar things.
Complaining about this makes me seem like an old fart, but since I am... I will.
I haven't succumbed to any of the above except I do have a pair of ankle boots that have a 3 inch heel. I only wear them on special occasions.
Anyway, I see these young women trying for a standard of beauty that is so unreal and think back to my younger days when we fought so hard for a natural look and to be accepted for our real selves. Now it seems gals want to be sex-kittens and they use the excuse that it is "empowering". I call b.s. on that.
Edit post to add: thank god they still reject girdles! horrible things
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I thought Spanx were just a brand name for girdles. Thanks.
"if it takes longer that 15 minutes to get together, then I think it's overkill. "
That's how I see it too, usually. If it's a very special (fancy / high falootin) event I would spend twice that easily though.
I wouldn't even have started coloring my hair if I hadn't started dating a younger man. Now I feel like I'd be conspicuously cougarish if I didn't. 
They're what I call stripper shoes... yet they're super popular now.
I don't understand the draw of dressing like a stripper, yet more and more women do that these days, it seems. I commute to work and I see women walking to the subway in them... how is that even possible?
I wear crocs, boots (men's if I can find my size) and tennis shoes. Give me more than an inch heel and I'd fall over and my feet would tell me to take a hike (sorry for the bad pun).
but only for clubbing and for youngish girls (19-26)... its not supposed to be a daily shoe or anythingmuch hipper dressed than down here I would assume.
Let us know when the fad changes to a lower heel and maybe I'll feel fashionable!
I was reading recently that women who wear high heels a large percentage of the time are actually shortening their calf muscles, and that it's causing injuries when they switch to flats for exercise or what have you. Alarming stuff, but also possibly alarmist, not sure.
A Scientific Look at the Dangers of High Heels
This is a snip from the middle of the article:
All of the women strode multiple times along a 26-foot-long walkway that contained a plate to gauge the forces generated as they walked. The control group covered the walkway 10 times while barefoot. The other women walked barefoot 10 times and in their chosen heels 10 times.
It was obvious, as the scientists had suspected watching the woman during their coffee break, that the women habituated to high heels walked differently from those who usually wore flats, even when the heel wearers went barefoot. But the nature and extent of the differences were surprising. In results published last week in The Journal of Applied Physiology, the scientists found that heel wearers moved with shorter, more forceful strides than the control group, their feet perpetually in a flexed, toes-pointed position. This movement pattern continued even when the women kicked off their heels and walked barefoot. As a result, the fibers in their calf muscles had shortened and they put much greater mechanical strain on their calf muscles than the control group did.
In that control group, the women who rarely wore heels, walking primarily involved stretching and stressing their tendons, especially the Achilles tendon. But in the heel wearers, the walking mostly engaged their muscles.
That biomechanical distinction is important, says Dr. Cronin, who is now a researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. “Several studies have shown that optimal muscle-tendon efficiency” while walking “occurs when the muscle stays approximately the same length while the tendon lengthens. When the tendon lengthens, it stores elastic energy and later returns it when the foot pushes off the ground. Tendons are more effective springs than muscles,” he continues. So by stretching and straining their already shortened calf muscles, the heel wearers walk less efficiently with or without heels, he says, requiring more energy to cover the same amount of ground as people in flats and probably causing muscle fatigue.