Fashion versus Function: Just An Observation

The students are back at my work. While I walk to and from my office, I notice them. I'm a people watcher at heart, so it's fun to see how people dress, how people act, and what this generation likes to do. I've noticed lately that there are a few girls who like to wear heels or other designer shoes that look anything but comfortable. In fact, most of the time, I watch them hobble around like they have two sprained ankles. They don't look comfortable. They don't look sexy or pretty because of those type of shoes. It's what I would look like if I tried to walk on four-foot stilts all day...awkward, clumsy, and uncomfortable. I just don't understand why women would do this to themselves. It doesn't make any sense to me. When I see a lady walking around like that, I think..."Ow...that looks painful!" and wonder why they do such things. It's like the old Chinese culture where women would jam their feet into impossibly small shoes because petite feet were the fashion. All that led to was woman with horribly deformed feet. Can anyone explain this phenomenon to me? I'm at a loss. I think my wife is beautiful in tennis shoes, comfortable fur-lined UGG boots, or slippers. It's not the shoes that make her gorgeous, it's her. She likes to dress up for me, but I always tell her that no matter what she is wearing, she'll be beautiful to me. I'm just glad that she doesn't go so far as to wear those torturous high heeled contraptions. Yikes!