How are you defining good looking? Of course there exist athletic sneakers suitable for miles of walking, for both sexes. What's wrong with those?
Of course this is a common request for women's shoes, to combine attractiveness and comfort. But that ends up being contradictory. Attractiveness is often defined as some combination of a raised heel and exposing as much of the foot and toes as possible. That means little material and padding, perhaps some kind of strap fasteners that chafe, and walking with the ankle unnaturally contorted on the high heel. These are exactly contradictory to the requirements to make a comfortable shoe, which means a natural flat sole, covering the toes for protection, and surrounding the foot with plenty of padding to provide support up to the ankle.
Oversimplifying for effect, if you define attractiveness as heel height, then having both attractiveness and comfort indeed becomes impossible.
That all said, there probably is room to innovate in the space in managing those tradeoffs, or at least in bringing that to a wider market. Just not as much as one might think, without realizing that there are inherent contradictions in these opposing requirements.
Of course this is a common request for women's shoes, to combine attractiveness and comfort. But that ends up being contradictory. Attractiveness is often defined as some combination of a raised heel and exposing as much of the foot and toes as possible. That means little material and padding, perhaps some kind of strap fasteners that chafe, and walking with the ankle unnaturally contorted on the high heel. These are exactly contradictory to the requirements to make a comfortable shoe, which means a natural flat sole, covering the toes for protection, and surrounding the foot with plenty of padding to provide support up to the ankle.
Oversimplifying for effect, if you define attractiveness as heel height, then having both attractiveness and comfort indeed becomes impossible.
That all said, there probably is room to innovate in the space in managing those tradeoffs, or at least in bringing that to a wider market. Just not as much as one might think, without realizing that there are inherent contradictions in these opposing requirements.