so cute!! a natural

If only I had trained myself when I was a kid…

when I was fifteen. I bought the shoes, took ‘em out and wore them, then had to run down a flight of stairs in them. I pretty much got over all the hurdles in one go.

All because I was late for a piano concert.

hahaha! so cute…!

my mom had a pair of red heels when I was like 4,made by stuff and wood, they were really 70´s when I remember…I loved them, because my mom uses a 34 and I almost fitted in them! oh, that was fun!!!

My mum never let me near her shoes when I was little! I love the way your niece runs over for the bag…can’t be on video without the whole outfit! Gorgeous!

wow a 34???
my gran wore a 35… and i thought those were small!

Adorable!

I was always playing dress-up, and since both my mom and my grandma had smaller feet when they were younger, their discarded shoes were therefore mine. I had a pair of my grandma’s that were black leather and cork sandals (and they were AMAZING) that I loved. I still love cork sandals.

I also had my mom’s wedding shoes, which I guess became too small for her after having kids!

wow, she walks better in heels than I do! I’ve loved heels since I was 7 in the 80s, my moms snakeskin pumps (she wore them for her 2nd wedding)!! I wore those around all the time.

Notice the hip sway also!…. She must know a person or two in the fashion industry!….:)Family ties hah? Fabulously Adorable!

She’s not gonna go easter egg hunting in those hills… is she? Heeh…Heeh…Heeh…
Leo

hey. i have never posted a comment here before, although i really love your blog. but this is a question which took me some time to answer. my mother never wears heels, so my first fascination for heels came in a shoe shop when i was 12. now i’m 15 and love heels. i don’t have any difficulties in walking in them or so. i just don’t use my pair of heels regularly as i live in portugal and without the heels i’m already taller then most of the people i meet there. but i’m gonna move to cologne in a while. german people are bigger so…

congratulations to your own soon to be move to frankfurt by the way. and your niece really seems a natural pro.

I know I had quite a few pairs for dress up that my neighbor had given me (once I grew out of those plastic heels they make for dress-up). And I would always beg my mom to buy me “church shoes” with heels instead of flat ones. I don’t think I bought another flat shoe until I moved to San Francisco and had to deal with these hills! But I learned to walk well in them pretty early since I was a dancer and had to dance in character shoes a lot.

I guess it all started out with my mother’s wedding sandals (just loved them! white and strappy). There were just one problem to it all - she didn’t knew where the ankle straps were, so my hiding around catwalking my mum’s risky wedding sandals were not so extended. Then I discovered high heels (with pleasure, because I’m tall enough so I didn’t enjoyed being even taller than the average when teenager) pretty much 3 years ago and remained completely hooked up with the high heels.

wow, she is such a cutie! great walk:)

she is such a pro!
and she has a cute little shimmy too!
because i’m rather tall i only started wearing them when i was about 15, which actually thinking about it is a pretty normal age.

but i love heels so much now; and love the kick (no pun intended) i get out of wearing them even if it does make me look like a skyscraper.

just read through that old post you mentioned; all the comments are so lovely and what you wrote really made me beam (”tall is sooo cool, i love it when tall women wear heels… it says confidence like nothing else!”) because it’s something i can relate to.

hurrah!

hi iris! welcome! i’m glad you commented… 12 is a good age, because that’s when you start to fit into your mums shoes…

@stevie, oh yes, she does have a shimmy! and i’m glad you love heels tall women should wear heels, its so exotic!

Such a sweet video! I first wore my mother’s heels where I was about four or five but didn’t begin wearing them properly and on a regular basis until I was about 18. I didn’t have any reason to get dressed up and wear heels until then, so I started giving myself reasons to. Now, I don’t need any reason at all!!

oh my goodness!!!
she’s too good at walking in those heels!
hm…i dont know where the heels fascination came from. ive always admired louboutins as long as i could remember.
my mother’s closet bored me, i would sneak into my dad’s closet but i knew better than to play dress up with his clothes.

ha! that’s so awesome. my 4 year old daughter does the same thing!

i remember walking around in my mom’s heels when i was little, but at some point i detested them and would not wear them when i got older. i’m just starting to embrace them at 33 (and learning how to walk in them thanks to you).

thats so cuteee!

My niece ROCKS my 5 inch heels like nobody’s business! It’s amazing she’s only 3 and she’s more of a fashionista than I am at 20

she dresses herself and everything!

OMG. I love it. When I was that age my mom would tell me I would hurt myself…I think it did something to my psyche about heels. I love em and I do fine for the first hour. After that, its like I forgot how I left the house in them lol