I think most girls wear them to be tall.... I dont know, Im already pretty tall, and I have a really bad fear of any height and falling, that I shake in pretty much any shoe above the standard height. You have to know how to wear them too, you cant just get up and go. For a wedding I was instructed to wear heels, and I had to practice walking barefoot with a book on my head before I even got to try them on. I dont know if thats how it works for everyone, but I hate them, and I really dont know what other people see in them.