The High Cost of Mixing Extreme High Heels and Alcohol

                                                    
THERE ARE FEW THINGS THAT SCARE ME MORE THAN WALKING THROUGH THE SHOE DEPARTMENT of Dillards, Bloomies or Nordstroms and viewing some of the widow-maker super high heels and wedges on display and in fashion. Just looking at them makes my ankles hurt and lower back cringe.

I want to yell at the poor salespeople--- You're kidding, right? You actually sell these things with a straight face?

I've always been afraid of heights and somehow projecting myself  into a pair of some of these outrageous contraptions sends a shudder of terror through all my senses. Who in heaven's name really wears these things? Dares to walk in them without feeling they're taking their life in their hands? Thinks they need them to be attractive to men?

Is wearing them a secret suicide wish?

Over the last few years I've read about a couple of female performers who tripped and fell on stage in super highs. But today reading the morning news, I read a story that made me terribly sad and should sound the alarm to all young women who think they're invincible, especially in non-sensible shoes:

POLICE EYE HIGH HEELS IN DEATH OF NYC WOMAN FOUND IN STAIRWELL

Published August 28, 2012
FoxNews.com

NEW YORK – Police are investigating the death of a New York City woman found bleeding from her neck in the stairwell of an apartment building.

Carlisle Brigham, 29, the daughter of a former city budget director, was discovered around 11 a.m. Monday by a tenant of the walk-up on Orchard Street in Manhattan.

The New York Post reported that the woman was dressed in white and wore “really high heels,” according to a resident inside the building.

Due to the amount of blood around her neck, investigators initially theorized that she was slashed, but it appears that it was an accident, the paper reported.

She possibly tripped on her high heels after a night of drinking with college friends, the Post reported. She reportedly shattered her chin on a step. An autopsy is pending.

One of the residents performed CPR on the woman, but was unable to revive her.

"Her body was actually quite cold," Mizanur Rahman, 19, told the paper. "The whole floor was just blood."

She was married last year, but the two were separated. She was visiting someone in the building. Her estranged husband was in the United Kingdom and could not be reached for comment.

Former Mayor Ed Koch, for whom her father worked as budget director, said her shattered father called him yesterday afternoon, The Post reported

"He was sobbing," Koch said. "He told me that she had died and that it was apparently a fall . . . a freak accident.

"Wonderful young woman," the ex-mayor said of the daughter, whom he knew.

SOURCE

So there it is, drinking and walking in extreme heels can be hazardous to your health and even your life.  A fall could happen in a stairwell, on a curb, crossing a street or on a dance floor, and sometimes it can be fatal. But by the Grace of God go any of us.

One of the great things about getting to my age is being able to use the word sensible with impunity to describe a myriad of daily choices from friends and shoes to clothes, exercise, eating and drinking.  I hope this tragic 'freak' accident gives  women with shoes like this in their closets enough pause to rethink this scary fashion trend and just say no!