Dear Sir, - You number among your correspondents many who describe their experiences when training to wear tight corsets and high heels. Although I do not go to extremes with tight lacing, I can now wear quite a high-heeled shoe.
When I first lost my left leg I resigned myself to wearing a low-heeled shoe, though before my amputation I used to wear high heels, and it was about the time of our marriage that my husband suggested me trying something smarter then the brogue I was wearing at the time, but at first this did not appeal to me, for I imagined that I should feel unsteady balanced on a single high heeled shoe with my crutches.
However my husband took an old shoe of mine with a heel of about two inches high, to a cobbler and requested him to add an inch to the heel.
Then, when I had got used to this height in a week or so, wearing it about the house, he added another « inch, and later still another inch, until I was wearing a shoe with a 4« inch heel, and through doing this in easy stages I found it quite comfortable.
Of course this method upset the balance of the shoe in that it did no compare in looks to a shoe that has been made with a heel of this height, but it was, nevertheless, good training for me, and I can recommend it to any of your readers, whether they have one foot or two.
I am enclosing a snap which my husband took when the heel was 3 inches high.
When I was completely confident in my ability to wear a high heel, my husband bought me a beautiful red kid Court shoe with a 4« inch heel, in which I delight when strutting about the room, much to his approbation.
I do not wear this extreme heels out of doors because apart from attract undue attention, and probably ridicule, one cannot be too careful, particularly when streets are wet.
We are looking forward to the Xmas Number and hope that there will be a contribution from Wallace Stort or "Lawless" and any other letters from fellow monopedes.
Yours faithfully,
Single High Heel.