I'm 5'9 and I DO NOT wear heels. Heels and I do not get along. It probably has something to do with what happened in 1994. I was tickled. Yup, tickled. And that little incident caused me to break both my ankle and my leg. I had 1 screw thru my leg (which has been removed) and 2 still in my ankle. I have a hard time walking in wedges. When I got married, I wore white dress sandals. My dress was floor length, so you really couldn't see them. (I also refused to wear the stupid thing under the dress that makes it poof out) Picture this. Walking down the stairs in a casino. Spiral staircase. I have on a pair of beige dressy pants and a pair of boots. The boots have a wedge. I have my hand on the railing as I'm walking down...and it's a good thing. The wedge of the boot on my left foot tangled with the leg of the pant on the right. I would have tumbled down the whole flight of stairs if I had not been holding on. Why did I have the forethought to grab the railing? Because I'm not very graceful either. I bought a pair of Skechers Shape ups. For those of you not familiar, they have a heel on them and it's also rounded. What does that mean? It means if you are use to leaning back into your heels and you have shape ups on..you have nothing to stop you and you fall on your arse. Just saying.