A 55-year-old mother of three uses girl math to justify platform heels: subtract the platform from the heel height and you get the real lift. A 4.1-inch heel with a 1.5-inch platform feels like 2.6 inches, her sweet spot for height without pain.
4.1 inches
1.5 inches
Approximately 2.6 inches (about 2.5 inches)
55 years old
Three
Let's do a little girl math, shall we? Girl math. Regarding shoes. So I generally cannot do a super high heel because I'm 55 years old and I've had three children and I have a bad back and, and, and. Right. But I like the look of a high heel. So it just took me a minute to do this math. But, but talk it through with me. It's a 4.1 inch heel, okay. It's a 1 1/2 inch platform, meaning you deduct the platform from the heel height. So you're at like a 2.6, like a 2 1/2 inch heel. That's my sweet spot. So this heel, well, it gives me height and I can wear it with really long pants and I can wear it with a short or dress and it makes my legs look really long and it makes me tall and, and, and it feels like it's a two and a half inch heel. So to me, that is jackpot.
