I always wear a 3-4" spiked heel with suits and dresses. And I swear I screw up every freakin' pair of shoes by stepping into a skinny crack and ripping up the leather on the heel. This often pulls the tip of the heel off, too. Just today I noticed that the heel was screwed up on my newest (and most comfortable) shoes. I must have done it while waiting on the valet before my swearing in, because I definitely remember stepping in a crack then. And just a few weeks ago I managed to scuff up my shoes and lose the heel on the escalator leading to Contract Firm. Fortunately the floors there are marble, so I did no damage with my tipless heel, but I did make an annoying one footed tapping sound all day, from the single metal spike hitting the floor. And once I stepped in a crack on the stairwell in the courthouse and got stuck. I would have fallen down the stairs if my coworker hadn't caught me.
Am I just unusually clumsy or does anyone else have this problem?
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I do this all the time. This summer I was glad to note that near my office is a shoe repair place that actually does an in-and-out repair of this kind of thing--it takes 10 minutes and costs $10 and they'll replace the heel tip and also glue down any shredded leather and polish the heel so it looks smooth again. Because I ALWAYS seem to discover that, somewhere along a walk, I've managed to destroy a heel.
Oooh, thanks for the tip. I didn't know they could fix the shredded leather. I now have three pairs of black heels that I can take in for repairs.
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