Behold this ped-prostrating piece of perfection I happened across in the Virtual Shoe Museum:

Now, while I really am doing my best to brain-wrap around the concept of a virtual shoe museum, some of styles contained within these e-walls are simply superb, but especially these, from Marte den Hollander, who created this shoe in a sheer stroke of graduate-project genius!

Is this shoe but a sketch for a reason?

Would such a shoe be harder to prototype than I understand?

 What, pray tell, are the physics secrets that are stowed so surreptitiously in the slender -- and ever-painful -- confines of the high heel?  

And, last: Why, in Sweet Skye's name, has this never been considered heretofore?!

Just imagine the potential ... on a date! For which you are late! Taking public transport! Gotta run? No biggie -- simply scale down that heel and pound the pavement without worry, only to arrive just in time to slip it right back up to the greatest of heights -- and hotness factor!