I was a tomboy for quite awhile and after that was quite awkward. My first pair of high heeled shoes broke this. They were a black pair, size 7 1/2 , fairly low heel (although at the time I thought they were really high) strappy sandal type of shoe that I wore with every dress. That began my obsession with shoes that no run the gamut in size, shape, color and so on. Something about being in high heel shoes makes me feel powerful, feminine and beautiful. I still have my first pair of high heels. They still fit. Even though I rarely wear them, I don’t have the heart to let them go.
-Felicia

A pair of red and white, vinyl, open toed, high heeled shoes. 
I was 17 and saw them in a store and fell in love with them on the spot. I was raised primarily by my father, so girly things never happened unless I could choose a colour (always pink or red) so when I found myself wandering through a store (I can't remember why) and saw these shoes, and realised that I had the money in my pocket to buy them, I did. I marched those babies to the woman at the counter, paid for them and parked myself on the floor outside of the store and replaced my sneakers with these gorgeous heels. They probably didn't match my outfit at all, but I didn't care because those shoes made me feel like a woman. A real, live human woman.

 A random dog stole one of those shoes when I was 20 years old. I cried for those shoes. I lived in those shoes.

 Four years later I have a new pair of red heels, and while they make me feel giddy and girly, it's not the same as the first time. It never is...
-Leanne