Comments on: High Heel Racing

By: Updates and Brillante Premio | Style Discovery

Updates and Brillante Premio | Style Discovery — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:56:25 +0000

[...] As part of 30 days of Fashion & Beauty festival shop til drop magazine is hosting a race where girls have to wear 3″ heels and race to win $5000 and a pair of Terry Biviano. I can’t even walk let alone sprint wearing 3″ heels! Could you? or a better question might be ‘Would you’? I wonder if the organisers are going to make the girls sign some indemnity paper in case of a serious injury. Perhaps I am wrong to assume that it’s all going to be girls who would run for the money and a pair of stilettos. Imagine a guy wearing 3″ heels and running! {image from shoeblogs} [...]

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:28:41 +0000

Oh, give me a break! You people need to get the stilettos out of your rear ends. That girl “on the pavement” is smiling. She obviously dove for the finish line; she didn’t get injured. I don’t know about other places, but Eastern European women as a whole don’t see wearing stilettos on ice and cobblestones as any big deal. Perhaps there’s a little jealousy going on here. Another thing, people who wear heels a lot tend to have really good leg and thigh muscles. Let’s hope the stuffed shirts here never get kicked by one of those girls! Lighten up, and have some fun, or at least don’t try to spoil others’ fun.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Hi I am a man and I don’t see why this is so offensive. These girls choose to participate in the race, and if you watch some of the videos of the stiletto runs, most of the girls look like they are having fun.

If the race was open to men I would gladly participate, as it looks like fun, but only if I had an equal shot at the prizes…

I believe the rules are 7cm high heels that are no wider than 1.5cm at the bottom. Though some of the rules require 9cm heels, such as the moscow run. most our 100meter dashes though it ranges from 50 meters, to a 350 meter run in amsterdam, oh and there is a 3″ high heel 0.5k run in Buffallo NY USA.

I would love to race any woman who would be willing in stilettos for fun.
Feel free to E-mail me RNDYOTIS93@HOTMAIL.COM

By: G. Sol

G. Sol — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:41:14 +0000

I am seeing alot of comments about Russia, GUM (Russian department stores) and Eastern Europe. Apparently many commenters believe that stiletto races only take place in so-called “backward” countries? Sorry! Stiletto races take place in many forward(?) countries such as The Netherlands, Germany and Australia. On this page you will see videos of stiletto races from all around the world.

http://www.squidoo.com/Stilettos

My question is why do Americans always think that they are superior? These comments read something like “Pity those poor unfortunates living outside of our wonderful country doing something so degrading” Have you never heard of women participating in Wet T-Shirt contests in Ft. Lauderdale? Why do they do it? For money! It might be less dangerous but is it less degrading?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:14:23 +0000

I can\’t believe I missed this one. I\’ll be checking some other sites on this.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:15:43 +0000

Wow. I cannot believe the level of offense that some people are taking at this…seriously, to see Jezebel put this on the same level as having feet bound or being a stripper? All of these women absolutely chose to do this. Why? To have some fun! To do something out of the ordinary! To LIVE. Which, I dare say, might be something that is not being done enough by someone who would actually take the time to write Glamour about this being offensive and absurd. If you have a problem with it the solution is easy…don’t participate!!!! I might add that for some women, the ability to run in heels is quite empowering especially when it comes to the whole men vs. women thing. (Most) men could never walk in heels, let alone run in them, so more power to us women who enjoy heels and, if we wanted to, could run in them!!!!

By: How To Run In High Heels « Locked and Secure

How To Run In High Heels « Locked and Secure — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:58:18 +0000

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By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:53:52 +0000

Ah, yes, these women “choose” to do this, as so many women “choose” to be strippers, and to have their feet bound, and have their daughters’ clitoris’ removed. There is no free will under the patriarchy. These women are risking their health – a lifetime of limping, a knee replacement, a torn ACL – for a little shopping money? These are surely not professional athletes, as no pro would risk her legs and joints for something so absurd.

Imagine men racing in stilettos, or even slick-soled formal pumps they would wear in a tuxedo. Who would watch that? Who would pay for it? No one, because this race isn’t about running or speed or athleticism. It’s about schadenfreude: watching silly women risk life and limb for a bit of shopping money. Sadly, these women do choose such absurdity.

I wrote to US Glamour about these very events, and they absolutely disavowed any thing to do with stiletto races. Only European Glamour sponsors them.

By: Manolo's Shoe Blog: Shoes, Fashion, Celebrity, and Manolo!

Manolo's Shoe Blog: Shoes, Fashion, Celebrity, and Manolo! — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:35:58 +0000

[...] Manolo says, here is yet another video of the Eastern European sport of stiletto racing. [...]

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descartavel.com » Esporte é cultura — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:56:13 +0000

[...] no blog do Manolo. Mais no trendhunter (tudo em inglês). Tem também um vídeo (em alemão, mas vale ver) no [...]