High Heels?

Question

In attempting to find the best translation for high heels, I've seen both "tacones altos" and "tacones lejanos". Anybody know which, if either, is best?

Answer 1

In a book I read while learning Spanish - La Casa en Mango Street - there is a chapter involving high heeled shoes. It was always, "Tacones altos". It was the Mexican spanish translation of the English original.

J

Answer 2

My wife - the high-heeled wearing Mexican just calls them "tacones". She has over 75 pairs.

wow! - margaretbl, Aug 26, 2010

Yousa! - JoyceM, Aug 26, 2010

She's not named Imelda, is she? Oh, sorry, that was low. ;) - revmaf, Aug 26, 2010

I don't think Imelda was Mexican. - petersenkid2, Aug 26, 2010

Good for your wife! I love high heels! - Sheily, Aug 26, 2010

76 pairs!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Vaanz, Aug 27, 2010

Answer 3

For a translation of high heels, i didn't get any of your answers, but I think high heels translated into Spanish is "altos talones"....

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

PLEASE!!! never say 'tacones lejanos'

the best and correct and i think the only you should use is: tacones altos

saludos

And as a native speaker, would you say talón is a shoe heel as well as the human heel - margaretbl, Aug 27, 2010

Answer 5

Well , i've always used los zapatos de tacón

Answer 6

My wife - the high-heeled wearing Mexican just calls them "tacones". She has over 75 pairs

Ask her if she needs someone to model her collection:

During the late-1960's the media brought the case of serial killer Jerry Brudos to the public's attention. Brudos known as the Shoe Fetish Slayer would amputate his female victims' feet and dress them up in his large collection of ladies' shoes.

Yikes! - petersenkid2, Aug 26, 2010

Answer 7

When you google for photos you get the same item whichever term that you use.

tacones lejanos

tacones altos

Answer 8

I know Jeremias has accepted an answer, but I'm sorry I cannot leave this yet, I am not convinced that the word 'tacón' and the word 'talón' can be used interchangeably as posted. Someone? I have come up with this description: el tacón es la pieza que se pone en el zapato debajo de la parte que corresponde al talón del pie, para levantarlo por ese lado. El talón del zapato (o del calcetín) es la parte que rodea o que corresponde a la parte posterior del pie humano. And therefore the tacón is part of the shoe, and talón is the human heel (in this case). Someone please?

If you look up talón in the R A E dictionary you will see it can mean the heel of a shoe. I don't know if it would refer to a high heeled shoe, however. - 0074b507, Aug 27, 2010

I have now found many sites using altos talones for high heels. One site sold machines that attached talones to shoes so it must refer to the heel of a shoe, not the part of the sole of the shoe that is beneath the heel of your foot. - 0074b507, Aug 27, 2010

Thankyou G, I accept what you say, it must be common usage - thank you so much,m - margaretbl, Aug 27, 2010

Answer 9

negro de alta talón zapatos de plataforma

Answer 10

Solved

Ok I think I have solved this: A movie translated to High Heels from the Spanish: (Tacones lejanos, meaning "Distant Heels") is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Marisa Paredes, Victoria Abril and Miguel Bosé. So no, it is not a sinonym for 'high heels' it is just the title of a movie and it is the reason that tacones lejanos appears in Google. Yikes!!!

I posted a picture of that movie in the previous thread on "high heels" that we had. However, I do not think the term tacones lejanos is specific to that film. - 0074b507, Aug 26, 2010

previous thread...http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/154050/tajones-lejanos - 0074b507, Aug 26, 2010

No wonder it sounded familiar, disculpe, but so do you think that lejanos I S used? It just sounds weird to me! - margaretbl, Aug 26, 2010

Answer 11

I have not heard them described as alto or lejanos, just tacones.

Answer 12

I would have thought it had to be tacones altos or for stilletos 'tacón de aguja'. Can 'lejano' really be used like that?