The 18 Most Comfortable Heels That You Can Actually Walk In All Day
Importantly, they’re all also cute and wearable.
by The Candidly Team
Have you ever taken apart a high heel? Truly broken them down to their studs? Unless you’re a cobbler, we guess not. But if you do, this is what you’ll likely find:
Yes, that’s a literal metal shank. It’s what we stand on for hours on end. Cozy, right?! Not that we needed it, but here’s our definitive proof that heels are a torture device designed by the devil himself.
And yet.
Does anything make us feel like we can conquer the world more than slipping on a pair of shoes that props us up and gives us gorgeous, lengthening height? Our legs become miles long. Our butt appears more pert. Our outfits all magically come together. We start walking upright again, as if hunching over a computer all day hasn’t permanently ruined our posture.
TL;DR: We hate wearing heels almost as much as we love seeing ourselves in them. So we rounded up 18 pairs of heels that are the best of both worlds.
And listen, shoes (especially those with heels) are one of a very short list of items we give ourselves permission to invest in. This is simply because they are the thing we wear the most but also that do the most for us, literally carrying us and our entire look. Plus, if we added up the many, many shoes we buy that wear away and hurt our feet instead of buying one classic pair we love forever, we figure it all evens out.
That said, here are the glorious heels that topped our list both for form and for function, regardless of price.
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