Designer Shoes

“My my, what a high waist you have!” is probably not a cry many of us have heard before being swept off our feet, but perhaps all that is about to change.

Romanian “shoe architect” Mihai Albu has created some skyscraper-esque new sandals that make the wearer a whole foot taller!  Apparently he created these 12-inch heels in order to “reposition the waist” of women who “don’t have long legs”.  Now, I may not be a designer, but I’m fairly sure the disadvantages of wearing foot-high shoes encrusted with jewels, feathers and mirrors probably out-weigh the disadvantages of having short legs…

“If a woman is 5 foot 9, she’d be towering above everyone if she wore these” Albu said, summarising in one sentence why his are the worst shoes I may have ever seen.  However, for women who that damn paranoid about the length of their legs, there’s another obstacle to overcome (if your legs are long enough to step over it) – the price.  Probably because only the super-delusional will ever buy them, Albu has priced his ridiculous shoes at just over £1000 – over twice the average Romanian monthly salary!  If the dentistry out there is anything to go by, you can probably get a leg-extending operation for about that price!

Editor of FashionInsider.com magazine, Marcellous Jones, said of the shoes that “They are impractical, but there are women who are brave enough to wear them”.  I wonder how much they paid him; brave, Marcellous, or stupid?

Image thanks to the Telegraph.co.uk

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