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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

high-heeled adj.

[wearing high-heeled shoes is a sign of superiority]

(US) arrogant.

1903		J. Fox Little Shepherd 46: The people lived in big houses of stone and brick ... and rode ... in shiny covered wagons, with two ‘niggers’ on a high seat in front and one little ‘nigger’ behind to open gates, and were proud and very high-heeled indeed [DARE].
1909		W.M. Raine Brand Blotters (1912) 190: A joke’s a joke, girl. That’s twice hand-runnin’ I get a call-down. You’re mighty high-heeled to-day, ’pears like.

In compounds

high-heeled shoes (v.) (also high-heeled boots)

(US) the indications that a person is arrogant, self-important, snobbish; usu. as have one’s high-heeled shoes on.

1848		W.T. Thompson Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 137: The major’s got his high-heeled boots on tonight.
1859		Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (2nd edn) 195: To say of a woman that she ‘has on her high-heeled shoes’ is to intimate that she is [...] ‘stuck up.’.
1872		G.P. Burnham Memoirs of the US Secret Service vi: High-heeled boots. Triumphant, confidant [sic] appendages!
1905		‘Central Connecticut Word-List’ in DN III:i 11: high-heeled shoes, n. Pride.