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SHORT WOMAN SYNDROME (SWS)

I was reading through a magazine recently and it reminded me of a pair of spice girls trainers I had during my Uni days. Do you guys remember those sky high version of a pair of trainers. I hated flat shoes, don't buy them, don't wear them, so it was heaven sent when those pair of spice girls trainers were designed.

I had those exact ones baby spice wore in that picture.

Back to what drew me to my back in the days shoe, there is this new syndrome in town, its called SWS meaning Short Woman Syndrome. I suffer from this syndrome at times, although I have brainwashed myself to believe that I am an average height for a lady. Polly Vernon (who writes for Grazia, UK), doesn't like the new wedge-heel trainer which helps hide the fact that some of us are actually shorter than we appear to be. Don't understand why she doesn't like them though because to me it's like wearing heels. Don't you think?

Yes they may appear as flats but are not actually, but hey... Its a great innovation.

This pair of shoes is the hottest style this year and even though they cost almost equivalent of N100,000, the Beckett Original sold out in the UK.

Isabel Beckett wedge heel trainers . this retails at about $137

Polly describes a woman who wears a shoe that pretends to be flat but in reality is not as a SWS sufferer and a tall shoe wearing woman who wears her heels inappropriately (like going to the beach in heels or walking your dog in heels) as showing signs of SWS...

If I have SWS because I wear high heeled shoes (and I walk perfectly well in them) to sports games and also do casual walks in them, then so be it. God forbid anyone outside my family or friends finds out my exact height. Chai, the ground better open up...

There are different grades of SWS though, I think I might be suffering from a mid-level SWS, seeing as only selected people can know my real height.

Below are more wedge heeled trainers.