From my humble observation of real women in real hi heels, and a lot of similar bending and shoving and stuffing say V2 hi heel shoes on oh, say, Angela or Antonia now I have come to the cpnclusio that hi heels are NOT spposed to bend at the toes anyway.

THere is a steel shank in the arch of the shoes that sees to that. The shoe in the toe bends somewhat to allow more flexability in the foot from the ball to tip of toes but that movement seems marginal.

Also, prop hi heel shoes fitted to theiir original character (as PP2 files now and not conforming) don't bend so it stands to reason they won't bend on other figures.

I just did this to Antonia with an old pair of heels I believe were meand for Vicki2 and though not perfect and time consuming to the max (to show our love factor for anything Poser), I managed to get them fitted.

But my proceedure was a bit different. I placed the smart prop shoes on the floor in front of Antonia (Angela) and put them in position so sole and heel were proprly placed on floor and locked the shoes.

It was then a matter of twisting and turning th feet to fix them......sorta what a real woman with say a size 7 fot would try to do to fit her clod hoppers into a say size 5 shoe.  LOL When they are stuffed in or close I unlock the shooes and do some minor XYZ resizing and smart prop them to the intended feet.

Then to avoid doing it again every time I wanted her in Hi heels I create a seperate folder in PROPS called ANTONIA CLOTHES and added these refitted shoes. Whenever I refit shoes hair jewelry etc I will put them all in this folder.

TO show my stupidity after an hour of squeezing Antonia's feet into V2 hi Heels, I went about trying to refit V4 wood heel sandals to Angela and all I can say is I really need to find another hobby.  ;)