Hello! Dear Javier.

My watch, although battery-operated, is analog. Platform shoes like the ones on the cover were called "macho shoes," though also what you say. I remember that as I was leaving childhood they were fashionable, and a cousin wanted a pair, but his mother, my aunt, refused to let him wear shoes with three-finger heels. My uncle joked that if it was three fingers wide it wasn't so much, but the length seemed excessive.

An excess I've seen come to pass, and although it amuses me more than amazes me, I've seen people walking on 20 cm high platforms without being stilt walkers.

Cheers @janaveda.

¡Hola! Estimado Javier.
Mi reloj, aunque de pila, es analógico. Machotes llamaban a los zapatos con plataforma como los de la portada, aunque también como Vos dices. Y recuerdo que saliendo de mi infancia estaban de moda y un primo quería unos, pero su madre, mi tía, se negaba a que usara unos zapatos con tres dedos de tacón. Mi tío hizo un chiste comentando que si eran tres dedos a lo ancho no era tanto, que a lo largo le parecía un exceso.
Un exceso que he visto cumplido y aunque me causa más gracia que asombro ya he visto gente caminando sobre plataformas de 20 cm de alto sin ser zanqueros.

Salud @janaveda.