When wearing dress shoes do you like heels or flats better?

If I offend women with the following statement, allow me to apologize in advance.

What the fudge is wrong with you? How can any woman in her right mind wear heels? I am morally opposed to heels as they can cause severe foot, leg, and back problems, and they are simply unattractive. And you know what's worse than heels? Stillettos! My god who wears these things? No wonder they're called stillettos. They look like swords with feet attahced! I say we burn all high heels. Maybe they do make your legs look longer, but the aforementioned back, leg, and foot problems are too high a price to pay.

It depends entirely on what I'm wearing.

With slacks, I prefer flats. With dresses or skirts (which I wear once a year or less) I prefer low, comfortable heels.

Heels? Ha!

And why do you have to be female to wear heels?

Brian I agree with you 100%

They you do not have to be female to wear heels but this was for guys that don't wear heels.

dirtbag -- I prefer flats. I am male. There was a time long, long ago, lost somewhere in mid-70's when men not only could but were encouraged to wear "high" heels (women probably laughed at us, it's maybe "medium" heels for them). And to this very day I have friends who wear cowboy boots with heels, even though they're not by any stretch of imagination "high," they're in no way "flat" either. I figured you wanted to ask women only, so I marked "I'm not female" for what's worth.

Brian -- while I agree with you that some styles of high-heel shoes are hazardous to one's health, it's not always the case. In the mid seventies I was suffering from back pain related to flat feet. My orthopedist recommended that I could wear expensive orthotics if I wanted to, but if I didn't mind taking advantage of the fashion at the time I should just wear heels. It did help me, but I didn't like it and stopped wearing them as soon as I could (before the fashion changed). He did warn me that very high heels introduce a lot of problems, and, at that time (women were wearing high-platform shoes) he was spending a lot of his time mending broken legs and arms when people would just fall and injure themselves, besides the standard back problems associated with high heels.

I checked "high" heels, although I guess that's a bit of an exaggeration--I like fairly low high heels--maybe 1 1/2 inches or so, and with a nice big surface area so I don't turn my ankle. And I wear them so infrequently that I haven't noticed any exacerbated joint problems.
Stillettos are right out.

Single choice? But I'm not female and I prefer flats. Damn.

ILJ -- exactly...

I do not have feet lol lol okay?
I love dresses especially summer dresses, I love earthy flat sandals and I also love wearing tall weird shoes with my dresses.

some men wear them too, you know...

IT DEPENDS!!!!!

lol this is funny.

mary, some people *don't* have feet...

I DO NOT HAVE A PREFERENCE. Would it have been so hard to include an option for this?

magbast: I know that, but it was unexpected.

I don't mind heels that much, because some of them really do make my legs look longer. There aren't very many options when it comes to finding flats to wear to dress up. I do have one pair of really cute black flats that look like ballet slippers that I wear with my little black dress. Other than that, I usually wear reasonably short heels.

heels... they give calves that sexy orgasm curve

I like a pair of clarks springers (british) (in raspberry sherbut or sand suede): comfy, dressy, tough enough to do a couple years of trail hiking. I can dance wild sexy flowing celestial punk in high heels, but I prefer to take them off, soon after I enter. I leave them on when hosting public receptions. My preference is barefoot on grass & beach. I like hopping 6' dashes across tall splashy beach rocks in n. ca,us

It's not the long legs, it's that the longer legs make you look thinner. I have some white go-go boots I would love to wear, but they don't come off easily, take too much room on my bike, but mostly are murder on my back. Oh, yes, clarks are hiking dress sandals.
Men, you think your feet smell & womens do not. It's open vs. closed shoes to a large extent.

I like the way heels look, but I hate the way they feel.

Yea, you're back.

I prefer shoes that are not torture devices. Dress shoes suck!

How about this survey: "when on your back, do you prefer heels or flats", you know, to weed out the chiropractic aspect of the question.

KR: Wouldn't that be murder on the "mattress" if you have a waterbed (or airbed, for that matter)?

Wish I could find out.

K_R: I thought men thought their feet smelled and women's didn't because men generally like the smell of women's feet.

Maybe I can fit that 'body scents' survey in tonight.

My feet stink after wearing panty hose and dress shoes all day long, but it does not even compare to my S/O's feet. I think male pisces have stinky feet, but I could be wrong. Well, feet are pisces main body part.

my feet don't stink

Much more comfortable. Also, my boyfriend prefers me in flats.

Pants, flats, bare ankles - I like that combination best of all.

I agree with Trish. That's a great combination.

I love platforms. I can stand the regular high heel. Yuck!

I wear heels all the time, even at home doing housework. I have worn heels for so long that flats hurt my feet.

Does anyone else get that thing where if you take your high-heeled shoes off after you've been wearing them for a while, you feel like you're standing at a backwards slant?

I tend to find heels become unbearable and have to be taken off five minutes into any social engagement. I like to be barefoot, but in the situations one's forced into heels, it's almost never appropriate.

I like to see women in heels because it makes them look hotter and more reformed

almost never caught without heels on. they make my butt look good and help me feel oh so feminine.

you would like me in heels. =)

Sometimes I wear very confortable 2" high-heeled shoes, but almost all time and in anyplace I wear ballet flats. I fell good wearing them and I have now about 120 pairs. By the way; I an a guy.

Flats.