Wedges.  We've gotta talk about them and I don't mean the underwear kind.  I remember vividly wearing them back in high school, believe it or not, but they weren't the super high kind like is popular now.  They were probably 3" max.  What is up with the ones today??  They make girls walk funny and look like they have club feet.  Now, admittedly some of them are very cute but some others are just wrong.  The fashion statement some of them make is "Hi...I have a chair up my butt and can't walk normally".  And what about the heel heights of some of these otherwise really cool shoes?  They do may make a gals legs look great but what they do to your feet and your Achilles is another story.  Can you say bunions, neuromas, hammer toes, calluses, deformed feet, all in the name of style??  Have you seen some of the feet of our mom's age ladies??  Or even some of the gals my age??  They will scare you silly.... a real foot surgeon's paradise.

Having had my share of foot issues in later life, I'm hard to fit.  Plantar Fascitatis?  Check.  A neuroma?  Check.  Old Stress fracture?  Check.  I also have a very narrow heel, and it's the only skinny thing God gave me.  My feet pronate somewhat, just like my dad's did, and mom made me wear saddle oxfords for years, thinking that was going to make a difference.  It didn't, and now because my feet pronate inward just enough, almost any shoe I wear rubs blisters on my heels.  Ain't it grand?? 
Maybe I'm just a grumpy old lady but I want shoes that are beautiful AND more comfortable than the box they come in, that aren't ten feet tall.  And can we make them in narrows (heel only) again, like in the old days?  Otherwise, I'm gonna be rockin' some seriously ugly, but comfortable, shoes.  That's just how I roll.