[shoesense]

Well, this and other shoes were created by a designer named Eelko Moorer and I don't think they were meant to be worn--anywhere. I think of them as a kind of commentary on the state of women's fashion, which often finds it acceptable to torture the wearer with stilettos and other contraptions, but balks at the sight of these "stilts," which, after all, faithfully replicate the position of the foot in a high heel shoe. So I'd take them as a (painful) joke or tongue-in-cheek meditation on the pains of footwear.